Mr. Henry J. Tiaiier on l/ic Batterjlies of Cyprus. 181 



^jatteru is extremely iiidefijiite as to shape and direction, 

 with the yellow much suffused and running into the white 

 irregularly. The earliest examples are nuich greener and 

 the pattern has a certain amount of definition, the yellow 

 is less irregularly sulfused, and there is a tendency to a 

 nacreous appearance in some of the more defined white 

 areas. The later specimens are generally speakuig much 

 larger, and the striations on the costa fore-wing, never 

 nmch in evidence, are practically absent. The discal 

 blotch in the earlier specimens is not nearly so lieavy as 

 in the later emergence. As noted above by A.E.OJ., there 

 is much overlapping, but the general advance from the 

 early spring (ausonia-like) to the later emergence, to 

 which the name of taurica has been given by Rober (Seitz), 

 is w^ell demonstrated by the undersides of the series when 

 arranged according to dates of capture, although it is 

 impossible to draw a definite line of separation of the two 

 forms. I doubt if the earliest spring form as exemplified 

 in the occidentalis group (France, Spaui, etc.) ever occurs 

 in the Island, i. e. the deep green underside huid-wing 

 with strojig nacreous hiterspaces. 



Euchloe cardamines L. |ab. turritis Ochs. ; ab. minor Ckrll.; 

 ab. phoenissa Kalchb.]. 



" One thing that struck me was the presence in one or 

 two E. cardamines of a black dusting forming almost an 

 edging on the inner margin of the orange apical spot in 

 the males (no females sent)."- — A. E.G., 1915. 



" Some of your specimens are very small, as are the 

 Sicilian ones. They appear to prevail in the Mediter- 

 ranean Islands, while they are rare with us. But the chief 

 point of interest about E. cardamines is, I think, the dark 

 inner margin to the orange apical spot. One you have 

 sent me has quite a distinct black border to the orange 

 tip."— A.E.G., 1916. 



" I obtained this fairly connnonly hi sprhig."^ — J.A.S.B., 

 1916. (Not recorded by Led.) 



" This is a very local species ; I have seen it only at a 

 lew spots on the Kyrenian mountains. Emerges in early 

 March and flies till the middle of April. Mr. Gibbs thought 

 tliat there was a variety of this species, and some speci- 

 mens 1 sent him had a distinct black dusthig on the inside 

 edg(^ of the orange colouring. Males are not uncommon, 

 but the only female I have ever seen in Cyprus, previous to 



