98 THK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



More specimens were obtained at Dekehla \>y Mr. Storey, of 

 Cairo, on February 18th this year, and by Mr. Marshall. All 

 these differed more or less from tyi)e in the direction above 

 indicated. 



It would, therefore, seem that in the eastern extremity of its 

 habitat T. hallus is represented by a sub-species or local race, 

 variable, but differing from type in approximating in the colora- 

 tion of the male upper side to T. manntanicns and certain Asiatic 

 forms of Tomare^ {Tlicstor). While such female specimens of 

 T. halhis from Egypt as I have examined appear to have more 

 extensive reddish-orange markings on the upper side of the fore 

 wings than the type, I have not seen or taken a sufficient number 

 of specimens to be able to say that this extension is general or 

 even very frequent among Egyptian specimens. I will, therefore, 

 confine myself to the description of the male. 



If T. ballus (type) occurs in the Maryut Steppe near Alexandria, 

 it occurs only as an occasional aberration ; of this I am quite 

 convinced. 



Description. — Male : Upper side anterior wings. A reddish-orange 

 spot fills the exterior half of the discoidal cell ; exterior to this and 

 separated therefrom by a patch of ground colour of varying dimen- 

 sions is a band of longitudinal reddish spots, their marginal extremities 

 rounded, separated by dark scaling following the venation from one 

 another. A proportion of specimens occurs in which this band of 

 reddish-orange longitudinal spots is faint and much broken by the 

 dark brown ground colour giving it a smoky appearance. The smallest 

 of these spots is that nearest the costal margin between II, 5, and 

 III, 1. The spots usually increase considerably in length towards 

 the anal margin of the anteriors, those between veins IV, I and a 

 being most developed, and terminating internally parallelly with the 

 spot in the discoidal cell. Under side as in type. (See Eigs. 1 and 2.) 



LAMPIDES ETHODA, WLK , AND LYC\ENA ITEA, 

 WLK. = LAMPIDES THEBANA, STDGE., AND 

 A Z AN US UB ALDUS, CR. 



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



(Plate I, Eigs. 7, 9 cJ, 8, 10 9.) 



In vol. V of the ' Entomologist,' pp. 53-55, Walker described 

 two Egyptian Lycsenids as follows : 



i 



47. Lampides ethoda, n. 



Expands 1 in. 3 lines ; aeneous ; a blue tinge at the base of the 

 wings ; body dark blue ; wings rather short and broad ; fringes white. 

 Hind wing : a deep black spot near the tail, which is rather long. 

 Under side brownish cinereous ; a transverse streak in the disk and 

 some exterior transverse lines brown, white-bordered. Fore wing; 



