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chalky and almost devoid of vegetation ; and an excursion 

 to the centre part of the Island was equally unsuccessful.' 

 Zach, however, obtained nearly forty species of butterflies 

 and over fifty species of moths, and Lederer published an 

 account of his visit in ' Verhand. z. b. Ver. Wien,' vol. v 

 (1855). 



" In 1887 and 1888 Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard made two 

 ornithological visits to the Island, and in the papers which 

 he published in the ' Ibis ' for 1888 and 1889, descriptive 

 of his extensive itinerary, he occasionally makes casual 

 mention of some Lepidoptera; but his observations were 

 not, I think, intended to be regarded as of scientific 

 accuracy. 



" In the late 'jiiuetics an Austrian subject residing at 

 Larnaca — a Mr. C. H. Glazner — sent a inimber of speci- 

 mens to Lord Kothschild's Museum at Tring, and some of 

 his records are noted in the later volumes of the British 

 Museum Catalogue. 



" In 1901 and 1902 Miss D. M. A. Bate collected some 

 Lepidoptera, which were received by the British Museum. 



" Mr. T. Bainbrigge -Fletcher seems, not very long ago, 

 to have made a collection in the Island. 



" Mr. (now Major) P. P. Graves, sometime correspondent 

 of the ' Times ' at Constantinople, has informed me that 

 a Mr. Marsden collected in Cyprus comparatively recently. 



" Personally my collecting was j)rincipally done in the 

 neighbourhood of Nicosia, but I spent three midsummers 

 (from July 1st to Oct. 1st) on the Troiklos (the southern) 

 range at an elevation of between 5000 and GOOO ft., and 

 occasionally made short periodical visits to Kyrenia, 

 Limassol, Larnaca, Famagusta and Paphos." 



He goes on to remark :■ — 



" There is a great variety of trees, shrubs and flowers on 

 the lower slopes of the southern range, and I often wished 

 I had been able to pay this ground a visit, to which a 

 journey in April would, I feel sure, be of value. On the 

 higher ground there is less verdure, but some interesting 

 insects occur there, notably the handsome Dryas pandora, 

 Limenitis Camilla {rivularis) and Libythea celtis. 



" The northern range is a good ground for ' Blues,' and 

 it also gave me Ypthima asterope, Cigaritis zohra {= acamas), 

 and Glaucopsyche melanops {= papJios). 



" Charaxes jasius and Pararye roxelana occur locally in 

 the plains, as does Thais ccrisyi. 



