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too early in the field for this particular kind, but have had 

 reason to correct this view, owing to Mr. Butler's informing me 

 that I was too late, and that, on the contrary, it is on the wing 

 before T. apollina. 



Among PieridsB Aporia cratcegi was decidedly the most common. 

 So torpid was this insect on our arrival at Ephesus, on May 5th, 

 that it could be taken with ease by the fingers in the course 

 of the afternoon, off the abundant blossoms and flowering 

 shrubs on the lower slopes of Mount Prion, as we ascended to the 

 stadium and tomb of St. John, or else was only roused to settle 

 again. P. dajilidice has a tolerably wide distribution, occurring 

 on the banks of the Jordan, and half-way between Jerusalem 

 and Jericho, and in the bed of the then dried-up stream of the 

 Sara-kisi above Philadelphia, and by its capture at Colonos and 

 Cerameicus recalling classic memories alike of blind (Edipus and 

 Antigone, as well as of the first year of the Peloponnesian war. 

 P. hrassicce and P. rapce occurred, but only sparingly. There 

 were several specimens, but all female, of Euchloe carda- 

 mines, on or about the rock of the Acropolis. Of two foreign 

 species, A. helemia and A. helia, I captured three of the former, 

 namely, one at Beyrout and two between Jaffa and Latroon, and 

 one of the latter in the bed of the Sari-kisi above mentioned. 

 On the upper side both A. helemia and A. helia closely resemble 

 A. cardamines female, but are both smaller insects, helemia 

 decidedly so, and this butterfly has the green spots or blotches 

 of cardamines replaced by stripes. A. helia and A. cardamines 

 are more nearly alike, but the white between the green spots of 

 A. cardamines is silver on the under side of A. helia. 



Colias edusa, as a matter of course, was generally distributed, 

 and Gonopteryx rhamni and G. cleopatra were both noticed. 

 Neither species were plentiful ; the former occurring at Shtora 

 on April 18th ; of the latter I captured a female at Alexandretta, 

 on April 28th, and saw the males for the first time in June, 

 among the highly-scented scrub vegetation of cistus, arbutus, 

 myrtle, and heather, and subsequently in Corfu. 



Three of the four European species of Papilio were captured, 

 P. machaon at Smyrna and Ephesus, P. podalirius at Baalbec, 

 and P. alexanor at Ephesus. Of this last-named kind this was 

 the only specimen that I have ever seen alive, and a large one 

 and in fine condition. 



