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VIII. The IkiLLerJUes of Cyprus. By Henry J. Turner, 

 F.E.S. 



Lliead March 3id, li>2U.] 



The late Mr. A. E. Gibbs contemplated a paper on this 

 subject, and had frequently discussed the fauna of Cyprus 

 with me. 



The acquisition of a very large luimber of Cyprian 

 butterflies subsequent to my friend's death showed me 

 that almost every species had special peculiarities dis- 

 tinguishing it from the forms of the same species on the 

 mainland of Syria and Asia Minor, and from the forms 

 known from other parts of the Mediterranean littoral. 



From 1907 to 1912 Sir John A. S. Bucknill was Judge- 

 Advocate of the Island, and although most of his leisure 

 was devoted to the special study of Ornithology, he was 

 able to pay a little attention to the Lepidoptera, and in 

 the British Museum cabinets will be found the insects 

 which he then collected. In 1912 he was moved to Hong- 

 kong and subsequently to the Straits Settlements, but in 

 the year 1916 he wrote out his notes at length with the 

 view of getting them published in the " Proc. Zool. Soc." 

 For some reason or other the paper was not read at that 

 Society, and by the kindness of my valued correspondent, 

 Mr. G. F. Wilson of the Chief Secretary's Office in Cyprus, 

 I have been able to make copious extracts from it and 

 embody them in the present paper. 



In the introductory paragraphs of his MS., which deals 

 with the Lejjidojitera as a whole, Sir John Bucknill sums 

 up the work previously done as follows (so far as it relates 

 to the Rhopalocera) : — - 



" In 1853 Julius Lederer sent a collector — one Franz 

 Zach^ — -to Cyprus; he seems to have made Larnaca his 

 headquarters, and to have travelled in that neighbourhood 

 and to the centre of the Island ; I do not know how long 

 he remained, but he appears to have been there at any 

 rate in May. Lederer expressed himself as very dissatis- 

 fied with Zach's mission, because 'the vicinity of Larnaca 

 where Herr Zach, after having travelled four weeks, 

 arrived was found bare ; water very scarce and the soil 



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