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largest has it 26-0 ram. (El-Golea). Whether the form uorth of the Atlas requires 

 a new name, or is identical with P. d. ra.phani, as Oberthiir asserts, I cannot at 

 jiresent decide, as I have no specimens from north of Gnelt-es-Stcl and 

 Khenchela. 



Although in Enrope the summer generations (in the north, form. aest. (lajAidicc, 

 and in the south, form. aest. rap//an/)show more j-ellow on the underside than their 

 .spring broods, they never show normally anything approaching the range of 

 variation found in P. d. albidice. 



[P. daplidice albidice was very common along the river-beds in the Mzab 

 country from Ghardaia southwards to El-Hadadra, and eastwards of Ghardai'a, also 

 not rare in the southernmost parts of the Oued Mya to about 35 kilometres north 

 of Ain Guettara. Everywhere fresh specimens were flying together with worn 

 ones, and at Ghardaia, at the end of May, it was difficult to catch faultless 

 individuals. — E. H.] 



4. Pieris (LeucocUoe) glauconome glauconome King. 



1 c?, South Oued Mya; 1 ?, north of Ain Gnettara. 



This species is recorded from an enormous area — viz. from Egypt and East 

 Africa, through Arabia, Persia and Cashmere to Thibet. In spite of this extra- 

 ordinary distribution, only one local race has been separable — viz. P. g. iranicn 

 Bien. from Persia. 



So far there are only two records from west of Egypt — viz. Dr. Hartert's 

 specimens here mentioned and a specimen mentioned by Oberthiir as liaving been 

 taken by Roland Trimen at Constantine. This latter specimen I liave not 

 personally seen, but short of personal confirmation I cannot help remarking that 

 the locality seems a most unlikely one, and the identification, therefore, may be due 

 to confusion witli one of the aberrant Algerian daplidice forms. 



[The S was a beauty, the $ rather tattered. No others were noticed. — E. H.] 



5. Euchloe belemia desertorum Tur. 



3 c?c?, Bordj Chegga; 1 S, Ni,'a-ben-Rzig; 1 c?, Bled-el-Ahmar. 



This species is not usually found in tlie true desert country, and is i)erhaps only 

 a straggler south of Touggonrt. 



The range of E. belemia is much more restricted than that of ausonia (_= belia 

 auct nee Linn.) ; it is recorded from the Canary Islands, South Spain, North Africa, 

 Asia Minor and Syria, and hitherto only four subspecies have been separated : 

 belemia belemia South Spain, b. distincta North Algeria and Tunis, b. desertorum 

 South Algeria and Tunis, and b. palaestinensis from Asia Minor and Syria ; the 

 Canary Islands (juu I separate here us belemia hesperidum subs[). nov. on account of 

 tlie very strong deep orange costa and tlie large amount of yellow on the underside 

 of the apex of the forewiug. Although the general run of specimens south of the 

 Alias do not sliow the marked obsolescence of nnirking and e.\'tra small size of 

 typiral examples of (ioniit Turati's PJ. b. deser/oruiri siud Its aberration ecaiiescciis 

 liiibcr, they are all not ncaily so heavily marked as b. dintii/rUi. from nortli of tlie 

 Alius. I therefore think that, though they a[)i)roach nearer to true belemia belemia 

 than the latter, they are distinct enough to bo treated as a local race, and therefore 

 retain tin; name /i'. b. denerton.im for the present. 



