104 ) THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
uncommon in the Lantosque valley in the grassy places in 
June. | 
[Heteropterus morpheus.—Mr. Morris does not include this 
species in his list of observations, and Milliere was content to 
accept on hearsay Heilmann’s record of several specimens, 
Estérel, Route de Mt. Vinaigre. Mr. Powell adds that he has 
never taken it there, and that the locality is a most unlikely one. 
In this connection, however, Mr. Morris mentions an alleged 
locality near St. Raphael on the authority of Herr Gieseking, 
formerly a German resident at Cannes, whose collection was sold 
at the end of March last after sequestration. ‘The indication, if 
not a repetition of Heilmann’s, is at least as doubtful, and 
requires confirmation. | 
LycrNniIpDz&. 
Thestor ballus.—The geographical distribution of this species 
is interesting and puzzling. It appears to range from Egypt 
(Alexandria, etc.) along the North African coast provinces to 
Tangier ; and in Spain along the Mediterranean seaboard from 
Gibraltar, where it is abundant (J. J. Walker, ‘Trans. Ent. Soc. 
London,’ 1890, p. 872) to Malaga; thence northwards, from 
Barcelona, traversing the foothills of the Pyrenees, to Perpignan. 
But I can find no recent record of its occurrence in the 
Pyrénées-Orientales. The quotation, ‘‘ Perpignan,” is copied 
from Boisduval’s ‘Icones,’ p. 48, where a certain M. de Cerisy 
is credited with the capture in 1824. None of the later cata- 
loguists of this favoured region include it in their lists; and 
Dr. Chapman, to whom we owe the complete life history, when 
hunting Callophrys avis, Chpmn., at Amélie-les-Bains in April, 
1909 (‘ Entomologist,’ xlii, p. 121) expressly notes the absence 
of both Thais cassandra and J’. ballus. While in an amusing 
series of ‘‘ Causeries’’—‘ Guide pédestre de la Bourgogne aux 
Pyrénées’—by Anatole Carteron (Paris, 1868), the author, 
summing up the butterfly treasures of the neighbouring village 
of Céret in comparison with those of the Riviera, says, ‘‘que 
vous demanderiez en vain les polyomates Dolus et Ballus aux 
échos des Pyrénées.”’ Nor is it likely that 7’. ballus would have 
escaped the keen eyes of Rambur had it haunted the then prolific 
environs of Montpellier, in Hérault. It reappears to-day at 
Geménos in the Bouches-du-Rhone, where it has been observed 
by my correspondent M. Gédéon Foulquier (cp. his ‘ Catalogue 
des Lépids.,’ 1899) ; and it is decidedly common at Hyeres, find- 
ing its eastern limit near Cannes, at Vallauris (teste Milliere). 
But it must be extremely rare thereabouts. Mr. Warburg says 
boldly (‘ Entomologist,’ xxii, p. 257): ‘‘7’. ballus does not belong 
to the Cannes fauna’”’; Mr. Morris declares that he has never 
seen it; but a single example was captured by a friend of his at. 
