86 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



were appearing to take their place. So that this fact, together 

 with my experience with the earwigs, decided me to move on 

 into the province of Oran, and make for Tlem9en and Sebdou. 



I arrived at Tlem^en (2800 ft.) on Jmie 21st, and the next 

 day bicycled with my courier, over an excellent though moun- 

 tainous' road to Sebdou (3100 ft.), distant thn-ty-five kilometres 

 from Tlem9en. Here I found Coenonympha fettifiH just out and 

 in excellent condition on June 27th. But it soon became evident 

 that my expectations of Sebdou were doomed to disappointment. 

 It was a wretched little place too, with nothing but a couple of 

 wayside inns for accommodation, while most of the inhabitants 

 were either Jews or Arabs. The country in some directions pre- 

 sented a semi-demi desert appearance ; the heat in July became 

 intense, but though in the middle of the day the shade ther- 

 mometer would stand from 100° to 110° Fahrenheit, the nights 

 were sometimes so cold that it would drop as low as 40° ! In 

 the plains at sea-level the thermometer frequently stood at 122° 

 Fahrenheit during this terrible summer, which it may be remem- 

 bered was unusually warm everywhere, so that I suppose the 

 Algerian climate rose to the occasion proportionately. 



I had never before seen any country in the month of July so 

 (almost) destitute of butterflies as this, and ten days I spent at 

 Tlem9en proved that neighbourhood to be even worse. When I 

 returned to Sebdou (July 22nd) I found Pieris daplidice var. 

 raphani had come out in great abundance ; most of the males be- 

 longing more or less to this well-marked variety, though amongst 

 the females it was comparatively rare. On July 26th I first took 

 Satyrus fidia var. albovenosa and S. statilinus var. hansii, Aust., 

 near Sebdou, and these two Satyrids soon became common on all 

 the surrounding mountains up to about 5000 ft. But, alas ! S. 

 ahdelkader failed to appear, so I began to think my note stating 

 that this interesting Satyrus was "common in the alfa grass, 

 near Sebdou, in August," was a fraud. Anyhow I never came 

 across it, though I searched diligently wherever there was alfa 

 grass in abundance, till the middle of that month, when fever 

 put a summary end to my collecting for that year. 



The following is a list of my captures : — 



Papilio jwdalirius var. feisthamelii, Dup., and ab. lotteri, Aust. — 

 Near Algiers in March (1902) ; and in the cedar forest above Blidah in 

 May the var. feisthamelii was not uncommon. The summer brood at 

 Tiem9en and Sebdou produced ab. lotteri, very large and white. A 

 larva I found on a peach-tree near Sebdou in August produced a small 

 specimen oi feisthamelii almost minus the short black stripe from the 

 middle of the costa on the upper wings. It was brought out by 

 artificial heat on February Gth, 1905. 



P. inacliaon, L. — On the desert mountains near Biskra in March ; 

 the specimens were rather small, but do not seem to me otherwise to 

 differ appreciably from the type, except one, which is ab. sphyrus, Hb. 



