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clili 
Papilio podalirius feisthameli Dup., Euchloé belia (L.), 
Gonepteryx rhamni meridionalis Rob., G. cleopatra (L.), Vanessa 
polychloros erythromelas Aust., Argynnis maia seitzi Fruhst., 
A. auresiana Fruhst., A. paphia dives Oberth., Melitaea aetherie 
algirica Rithl, M. phoebe punica Oberth., Satyrus prieuri Pierr., 
S. abdelkader Pierr., Melanargia ines (Hofim.), Coenonympha 
arcanioides Pierr., Amorpha populi austauti (Stgr.), Smerinthus 
ocellata atlantica Aust., Pergesa porcellus colossus (Bang-H.), 
Celerio nicaea castissima (Aust.), Zygaena favonia Frr., Z. algira 
Dup., Procris globulariae notata (Zell.), Dicranura vinula 
delavoier Gosch., Liparis atlantica (Ramb.), Pachygastria trifolit 
(L.), Agrotis nissent Roths., Huxoa mauretanica (Bang-H.), 
Metopoceras omar (Oberth.), Catocala oberthwi Aust., Hypo- 
mecia quadrivirgula Mab. 
3. Lepidoptera found on the High Plateaux and in the 
Sahara, but not in the Tell. 
Euchloé charlonia (Douz.), 2. fallow: (All.), Teracolus evagore 
nouna (Luc.), Phragmatobia breveti (Oberth.), Cossus aries 
Piingl., Dyspessa suavis Stgr., EHuxoa imperator (Bang-H.), 
Pseudohadena roseonitens (Oberth.), Amephana warionis 
(Oberth.), Cleophana chabordis Oberth., Autophila maura Stgr., 
Grammodes boisdeffre: (Oberth.). 
4. Lepidoptera found in all three faunistic districts of 
Algeria. 
Papilio machaon (L.), Ganoris rapae mauritanica (Verity), 
Leucochloé daplidice albidice (Oberth.), Colias electo croceus 
(Fourer.), Pyrameis cardwi (L.), Melitaea didyma Ochs. (several 
subsp.), Acherontia atropos (L.), Herse convolvuli (L.), Celerio 
euphorbiae (L.) (subsp.), Notolophus dubia Tausch, Lambessa 
decolorata (Klug) (subsp.), Scotogramma trifolia cinnamomina 
Roths., and others. : 
Though the Southern Atlas range belongs faunistically to 
the High Plateaux, its southern foothills have the aspect, 
and form part, of the desert. In two places, at Ain Sefra 
in the west and at Bou-Saada in the centre, the desert has 
penetrated into and beyond the mountains and with the sand 
also the fauna and flora. There are two main routes into 
the Sahara from the Tell across the High Plateaux: the 
eastern one leading via Batna and El Kantara to Biskra, 
