ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. VJ 



To come next to the Satyridae, Minois aetata and anthelea, 

 and Satyrus semele were common in Deceleia road to Laurinum 

 and other places in the neighbourhood of Athens, as also Arge 

 titea and A. galathea on the Acropolis and road to Eleusis. 

 A. titea was rather the more abundant of the two, but the 

 difference between these two species is not discernible on the 

 wing. I also took one specimen of Satyrus ida in Corfu, and a 

 Yphthima, species undetermined, at Alexandretta, of which last 

 I regret I had only one indifferent specimen, as I have been 

 unable to find it in the national collection, but can certify to its 

 also occurring above the Nahr-el-Kelb. 



Of Fritillaries I only captured five species : Melitcsa trivia at 

 Ephesus, Argynnis lathonia and Melitcea athalia at Philadelphia, 

 M. cinxia at Belgrade, and M. didyma in Corfu. 



The remaining butterflies may be briefly enumerated: V. 

 Camilla in Prinkipo, Lyccena melanops at Alexandretta, C. phlaas 

 and P. alexis at Ephesus, and Pamphila linea and alcecB at the 

 Acropolis, Athens; and, on my second visit to the East, two 

 species of Deudorix, Lyccena hoetiea, Tarucus nana, and Zizera, 

 possibly Kassandra, at the end of November and beginning 

 of December, as well as Painphila nostradamus in and about 

 Cairo. Lycana hoetiea and Vanessa cardui were also seen at 

 Aboo Simbel. Vanessas were neither abundant in number, with 

 the exception of V. cardui, nor in kind. The only rare insect that 

 I came across of this tribe was a solitary specimen of Grapta 

 egea, which I unfortunately missed, in the bed of the Sari-Kisi. 



Of moths the number of species is very scanty, so far as my 

 personal observation went, — to wit, Saturnia pyri at Beyrout, 

 Arctia villiea on the banks of the Meles, Zygcena hrizce in the 

 Stadium and Pagse, at Athens, and Z. carniolica in the Pass 

 of Daphne, Dasydia ohfuseata (Scotch annulet) at Alexandretta, 

 Venilia maeulata (speckled yellow) at the entrance to the Wady 

 Ali, and, on my second journey, Chcerocampa celerio at the New 

 Hotel, Cairo, in December. 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOM. — JAN., 1885. 



