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killed specimens of Danaoid Heliconidae [Ithomiinae], when 
set out to dry, were always less subject than other insects 
to be devoured by vermin.” But apart from the Ithomiinae, 
Mr. Bullock’s collection made it probable that certain Coleo- 
pterous larvae had a preference for two other distasteful 
groups, the Danainae and Heliconinae. There is nothing to 
excite surprise in the evidence that certain, probably excep- 
tional, pests should specialise in the dried bodies of butterflies 
generally protected by distasteful qualities, any more than 
in the undoubted fact that. certain exceptional enemies prey 
upon them when alive. 
A new PALAEARCTIC SPECIES OF THE LYCAENINAE, AND 
OTHER LEPIDOPTERA FROM Mesoporamra.—Lt.-Col. H. D. 
Pris, I.M.S., exhibited— 
(1) Polyommatus peilet B.-Bak. Habitat: Karind Gorge 
(N.W. Persia), 6,000 ft. July (H. D. Peile). Type in the 
British Museum, described from six 3d and one @. (The 
Karind Gorge is just over the Persian frontier.) 
Mr. Bethune-Baker remarks: 
“Tt is, 1 think, the most extraordinary Palaearctic species 
of the true Lycaeninae that I know; its colour separates it 
from everything, but the underside pattern shows it to be a 
near ally of that beautiful species that Staudinger called 
dama, with which indeed it was flying when Lt.-Colonel Peile 
captured it. The androconial scales also connect it closely 
with the dolus group.” 
L.dama karinda Riley, and L. damone damalis Riley, taken 
in company with the new form, were exhibited for com- 
parison. 
(2) Zegris eupheme dyala, Peile (Entom. LIV, p. 151, 1921), 
6 33, 3 22 exhibited. This form differs from subsp. menestho 
Menetries, which occurs at Fathah on the right bank of the 
Tigris in Mesopotamia (and in Asia Minor and W. Kurdistan), 
sn the absence of the yellow suffusion in the eround-colour of 
the hind-wing, and in the darker shade of the grey outer portion 
of the apex of the fore-wing above ; and from subsp. tschudica, 
Herrich Schaffer described as an aberration, which it most 
approaches, many examples from Mesopotamia being “ drier ” 
still than this, having more white in proportion to the green, 
