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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 pecuhar 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. Yphthima asterope. Syria. 



4. Pyrameis cardui. Cosmopolitan. 



8. Hypolimnas misippus. India, Ceylon, Malaya, etc. 



11. Byhlia ilithyia. India, Ceylon. 



13. Atella phalaniha. India, Ceylon, Malaya, China, 



Japan. 



19. Polyofmnatus haeticus. Cosmopolitan. 



21. Tarucus theophrastus. Persia, Baluchistan, India, 



Ceylon, Burma, S. Europe. 



22. Tarucus telicanus. India, Ceylon, Burma, Java, China, 



Europe. 

 27. Zizera lysimon. S. Europe, W. Asia, India, Ceylon, 

 Malaya, Australia. 



30. Chilades trochilus. S.E. Europe, Central Asia, India, 



Malaya. 



31. Azanusjesous. 1 -d ia , . .^ t v n ^ -d 



or, A -L ij i Baluchistan, India, Ceylon, Burma. 



32. Azanus uoaldus. | ' ' ./ ' 



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 ynaihias. 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 

 Khartum. 



Such are : — 



25. Catochrysops eleusis. 



30. Lycaenesthes otacilia. 



41. Calopieris eulimene. 



45. Teracolus chrysonome. 



59. Teracolus ephyia. 



68, Colias marnoana. 



Of these L. otacilia is an East African and South 



