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to see the pupa-case with the bottom dropped off — especially one 

 would like to see the female reversed in her pupa-case — and one 

 would like to see her dried remains in the attached end of the 

 case at the anal extremity of the pupa- case. The infertile female 

 often dies in her pupa-case, but when she has laid her eggs she 

 is at the free end of the case, and almost invariably drops out. 

 Clear evidence that C. lewinii has the habit described would be 

 most interesting.] 



(To be continued.) 



A PKELIMINARY LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 



MALTA. 

 By Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 276.) 



A local magazine, the 'Mediterranean Naturalist,' which was 

 unfortunately but short-lived, contains several notes on Lepi- 

 doptera. An article entitled " Notes on the Lepidoptera of 

 Malta"— Medn. Nat., vol. i., pp. 85 and 106 (1891),— by Alfred 

 Caruana-Gatto, contains the first really useful information on 

 the subject. 



The only other published information which I have been able 

 to find is comprised in two papers on Mediterranean Lepidoptera 

 by Messrs. GervaseF. Mathew and Philip de la Garde (' Entomo- 

 logist,' vol. xxxi. p. 80, and vol. xxxii. p. 8). On these papers I 

 have drawn freely, as there are many species mentioned therein 

 which I personally have not met with in Malta. 



Mr. Prout has also lately published in the ' Entomologist ' a 

 few remarks on some Geometrids collected by Mr. Mathew in 

 Malta (Entom. xxxvi. 204). 



The numbers preceding each species are those in Staudinger's 

 * Catalog,' 3rd edition. I have followed the order therein given, 

 except that I have commenced the butterflies with the Nympha- 

 lidae. 



152. Pi/rameis (Vanessa) atalantafhinn. Maltese na^me, far/ett-tal- 

 horriek. — Common throughout the year, especially in gardens, &c. A 

 new brood is on the wiug at the end of May, and specimens of this 

 brood probably survive until the following J\larch. 



154. l\ cardai, Linn. — Abundant everywhere throughout the year. 



157. Aijlais (Wniessa) lutica:, Linn. — Mr. Gervase F. Mathew in- 

 forms me {in liit.) that he noticed one specimen on March 23rd, 1892. 

 It must, however, be a rare species in Malta, aud is probably only a 

 casual immigrant. 



385. Vararye e(jeria Liun. — The ordinary South European form 

 occurs commonly in Malta, but is local, confining itself to gardens and 

 valleys. Gneina, Boschetto, Intahleb, Ghirgenti, Wied-el-Kbir, Wied 



