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is decidedly more Arabian, or Desert, in character than it 
is to the south. 
Again as might have been expected the great majority 
of the species are Ethiopian, that is to say peculiar to the 
Province made up of Africa, with the adjacent islands, and 
Southern Arabia. The species that extend beyond that 
Province are eighteen in number, viz. :— 
2. Yphthvma asterope. Syria. 
4. Pyrameis cardui. Cosmopolitan. 
8. Hypolimnas misippus. India, Ceylon, Malaya, etc. 
11. Byblia thithyra. India, Ceylon. 
13. Atella phalantha. India, Ceylon, Malaya, China, 
Japan. 
19. Polyommatus baeticus. Cosmopolitan. 
21. Tarucus theophrastus. Persia, Balichistan, India, 
Ceylon, Burma, 8. Europe. 
22. Tarucus telicanus. India, Ceylon, Burma, Java, China, 
Kurope. 
27. Zizera lysimon. 8. Europe, W. Asia, India, Ceylon, 
Malaya, Australia. | 
30. Chilades trochilus. S.E. Europe, Central Asia, India, 
Malaya. 
a edi | Balichistan, India, Ceylon, Burma. 
39. Belenois mesentina. Persia, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon. 
42. Teracolus calais. Persia, Sind, N.W. India. 
43. Teracolus phisadia. Syria (Lebanon). 
68. Colias hyale. Palaearctic Province. 
72. Gegenes nostradamus. Gibraltar, Cyprus, Afghanistan, 
Panjab. 
73. Parnara mathias. Cyprus, India, Ceylon, Philippines. 
There are a few species which may be said just to touch 
the northern fringe of our district in the neighbourhood of 
Khartaim. 
Such are :— 
25. Catochrysops eleusis. 
30. Lycaenesthes otacilia. 
41. Calopieris eulimene. 
45. Teracolus chrysonome. 
59. Teracolus ephyra. 
68. Colias marnoana. 
Of these ZL. otacilia is an East African and South 
