282 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker m 



Primaries with the basal and subbasal marks as usual, but well 

 separated; a long narrow dash from close to the costa across the 

 end of the cell, directly below which is a broader waved dash, these 

 are followed by a subcostal spot with a second spot projected far 

 out between veins 5 and 6, a dash almost below the subcostal spot 

 between veins 3 and 5 ; postmedian line continuous, obtusely angled 

 between veins 5 and 6. Submarginal line consisting of a series of 

 internervular spots. Secondaries with a basal stripe, directly below 

 which is an imier marginal spot, a median row of four spots below 

 each other, the two lowest of which may be confluent, a dash closing 

 the cell, two spots below the costa generally united, three united 

 spots projected outwards between veins 3 and 6, two united spots 

 below the dash closing the cell, a continuous curved line just beyond 

 these si^ots, followed by a series of submarginal sjiots with metallic 

 blue green suffusion, the second anal spot being the most prominent. 



$. Upperside : both wings brown with whitish traces in the discal 

 area. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, (^ 23-26 mm ; $ 22-23 mm. 



Hab. Egypt (Alexandria) ; Algeria ; Palestine. 



Types in my collection from Alexandria. 



Specimens from Cairo are paler above with finer markings 

 below, whilst the form from Palestine is much paler above 

 and is slightly larger also. A pair from Biskra (Algeria), 

 collected by Eaton in 1895, are more heavily spotted below, 

 w^hilst the female is well suffused with blue in the basal 

 area of the primaries. 



Lord Rothschild has in the Tring Museum a series 

 collected in different parts of Algeria, and several hundred 

 miles into the Sahara. I shall, however, refer to these 

 again under the species theophrastus. 



In Section I of the genus this species is an excellent 

 example of the instability of pattern, specimens from 

 Alexandria and Cairo differing to some extent, both differ- 

 ing more markedly from the Biskra pair, whilst these from 

 Biskra differ quite perceptibly from those in the Tring 

 Museum from other Algerian localities. 



The genitalia are fortunately easily recognisable and differ from 

 others of the genus ; the clasps are large and broad, rapidly tapering 

 for the apical third, the whole of this portion being sharply and deeply- 

 dentate, the apex itself consisting of two sharp teeth ; the horn-like 

 sclerites are very broad at their base, tapering narrower for two-thirds 

 where they are angled downwards and are rapidly reduced to a 



