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fresh, and the few males still left were almost past recognition. I 

 hoped to find the larva, but did not succeed in doing so. 



Leucophasia sinapis, L. — Common at Broussa in April and May. 



L. duponcheli var. cBstiva, Stgr. — Very common at Amasia in June 

 and July. 



Colias edusa, F., and C. hyale, L. — I took no other Colias but these 

 two species. The former was common everywhere ; the latter rather 

 less so. 



Gonepteryx rhamni var. faruiosa, Z. — All at Amasia were of this 

 variety, and when compared with the type are quite distinct, the lower 

 wings in the males being of a pale greenish yellow, and the upper 

 wings also much suffused with the same tint towards the outer 

 margins. The females, too, were slightly greener than the type. I 

 saw two broods of this insect at Amasia ; the first was out when I 

 arrived at the end of May, and the second appeared towards the end 

 of July and x\ugust. 



Thecia spini, L. — Aggressively abundant in the Maidan, and other 

 localities near Amasia in June. 



T. ilicis, Esp. — Just coming out before I left Broussa in the middle 

 of May. 



T. quercus, L. — Two very fresh specimens (both males) in the pine 

 forest, above the old Sivas Road, near Tokat, in July. 



T. rubi, L. — Common at Broussa in April and May. 



Thestor nogellii, H.S. — Fairly common on one spot near the top of 

 the Caraman ; also singly in the Maidan, and other places near 

 Amasia, at the end of May and beginning of June. The orange patch 

 on the fore wings, which is such a decided sexual distinction in T. 

 ballus, was in this little butterfly not only by no means restricted to 

 the females, but neither was it necessarily always present in that sex. 

 Of the two female specimens I was able to procure, in oue of them the 

 orange patch is very large and conspicuous, whereas in the other it is, 

 on the fore wing, almost invisible ; and of the males I have a series 

 gradually diverging from entirely dark, till the patch in at least two of 

 them is very nearly as broad and distinct as in the one female. 



Chrysophanus virymirea;, L. — One very fine male taken near Tokat. 



C. ochimus, H.S. — Bad specimens were not infrequent near Amasia, 

 in the Maidan, &c., at the end of May and beginning of June. The 

 second brood began the first week in August, but I did not stay late 

 enough to get any females. 



C. thersamon, Esp. — Extremely common at Broussa in August and 

 September. I had also observed some few specimens there in the 

 spring. It also occurred at Amasia and Tokat, but I took none 

 belonging to the var. omphale, Klug. 



C. asabinus, H.S. — One rather damaged specimen on the Caraman 

 in July. I saw no others. 



C. riitilus, Wernb. — In the marshy meadows of the plain near 

 Broussa; not uncommon, but rather the worse for wear when I first 

 discovered it there early in September. 



C. alciphron var. melibmis, Stgr. — Oue splendid female only, two 

 days before I left Broussa (May 19th). The species was evidently only 

 just beginning to come out, and at Amasia all I saw, which was not 

 many, belonged to the var. gonlius, Sulz. 



