100 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



confirmed my belief. The only difficulty in accepting Walker's 

 L. ethoda as the female of A. ubaldus lay in his mention of a 

 "tail" on the hind wings of L. ethoda. A. ubaldus has no "tail," 

 in the sense of a filamentous projection, from near the anal 

 angle of the hind wing, such as occurs in so many Euralids ; but 

 if Walker merely gave a loose description of the very sharp anal 

 angle of the hind wing (see PI. I, figs. 7-10), his description may 

 be accepted as accurate enough. Walker's L. itea appears to be 

 most certainly the male of A. ubaldus. 



Staudinger's description of L. thebana {' Iris,' 1894, p. 244, 

 pi. ix, fig. 3) agrees very fairly well both with my specimens and 

 the descriptions by Moore and De Nic^ville of Indian A. ubaldus 

 (zena, Moore), but, should an examination of the male genitalia 

 prove that the Indian and Egyptian insects are really distinct, 

 Staudinger's thebana (' Iris,' 1894, p. 244) falls before ethoda. It 

 is true that Lederer's collection contained a Cairene male thebana 

 labelled Lye. thebana, B. (Boisduval), but we have no other proof 

 that Boisduval knew anything of this insect, and Staudinger 

 {loc. cit.) states that Boisduval does not seem to have described it. 

 But if Walker, Moore, De Niceville, and Staudinger all seem to 

 have described the same insect, I do not myself feel absolutely 

 convinced that this insect is certainly figured by Cramer, PL 590, 

 figs. L, M. The upper side of his ubaldus appears to me to be 

 simply a conventional blue Lycsenid. The under side may be 

 A. ubaldus as known to later entomologists. One hopes it is. 



The following are the records of the habitats and times of 

 appearance of A. ubaldus in Egypt as known to me : 



LowerEgypt: Cairo (Ezbekia Gardens), early November, 1907. 

 Kasr-el-Dubara and Gezira, October 18th to December 9th, 

 1916. Kassassin, October 9th, 1916 (Graves). Heluan, October 

 to November (Debski). 



Upper Egypt : Near Kom Ombo, Assuan Province, February, 

 1917 (Adair). 



SOME NOTES ON CUPIDO MINIMUS, AND OTHER 

 "BLUES" OCCURRING IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 

 OF CAMBRIDGE. 



By Hugh P. Jones. 



Cupido minimus has always been a favourite of mine, and, 

 as it is locally common on several of the chalk downs near 

 Cambridge, I have devoted a good deal of attention to it. 



Perhaps the most striking fact in connection with this little 

 butterfly in England is its extreme localness, and this is 

 probably caused by its food-plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, which 

 seems unable to flourish under the ordinary conditions prevailing 

 on a hill-side, requiring, seemingly, a greater amount of heat 



