THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. LI.] MAY, 1918. [No. 660 



SOME NEW FOKMS OF LYC^NID^ FROM EGYPT. 



By Capt. p. p. Graves, F.E.S. 



(Plate I.) 



1. Virachola livia, uh. pallida. Ground colour of male upper 

 side a pale brassy orange tint instead of a rich fiery orange. 

 Dark apical, marginal, and basal marking more pronounced 

 than in type. (Figs. 5 and 6.) 



2. V. livia, ab. famata. Ground colour of male upper side 

 darker than in type, and suffused, especially near the costa of 

 the hind wings, with dark scales, giving it a smoky appearance. 

 Dark costal, apical, and basal marking of fore wings and basal 

 and anal marginal marking of hind wings much more pro- 

 nounced than in type. 



3. V. livia, ab. clara. Dark marginal marking on upper side 

 fore wings of male restricted to a very small area at apex. 



4. Chilades trochilus, ab. mandersi. A faint but distinguish- 

 able reddish-ora,nge submarginal spot suggesting the remnant of 

 a submarginal band, such as is seen in the females of many 

 Plebeiid species, between IV. 1 and a. Maadi, ix, 16 ; Gezira, 

 vi, 17. 



5. C. trochilus, ab. yubtiis-ohsoleta. With the majority of the 

 dark spots and markings of the under side of both wings absent 

 or obsolescent. Gezira. vi, 17. (Fig. 3.) 



6. Tomares (Thestor) hallus, sub-sp. mareoticus. I have taken 

 about a dozen specimens, nearly all male, of T. hallus in Egypt. 

 No males have been normal, all showing a greater or less 

 amount of reddish-orange marking on the upper side of the 

 fore wings. I have seen similar specimens in the collections of 

 Mr. T. H. Marsden, of Alexandria, and of the late Mr. J. W. Tutt. 

 The latter remarked to me that had he had more material he would 

 have described this form, and commented on the similarity of the 

 upper side to that of T. mauritanicus. In 1914 Mr. Andres, of 

 Cairo, obtained four specimens of this form at Dekehia, near Mex, 

 Alexandria. On February 4th and 6th, 1917, 1 took six specimens 

 of this form at Dekehia, and one much more nearly approaching 

 the type at Amria, on the Maryut Railway in the Steppe, some 

 ten miles south-west of Alexandria. 



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