18G Mr. Henry J. Turner oit 'he BuUerJlies uf Cyjyrus. 



spots both above aiul below except of course the invariably 

 present apical bipupillate spot on the fore-wing. 



Satyrus hermione L. [race cypriaca Stdgr.]. 



" S. hermione v. ci/priaca is a fine form and very distinct." 

 — A.E.G., 1915. 



" They are a very even lot with slight variation of 

 spotting. They come from bijtli ranges. Are they con- 

 fined to the mountains ? "■ — A. E.G., 1916. 



" Led. recorded this species, but remarked of it that 

 ' the bands are hardly half the width which they are in 

 our (S. European) specimens, and in the $s are almost as 

 in the (^; the hind-wings are light whitish grey on the 

 underside.' Seitz figures the Cyprus form as cypriaca, 

 Stdgr. It is quite common."- — J.A.S.B., 1916. 



" A fairly connnon species, but confined to certain 

 localities. It occurs on the Kyrenian mountahis and in the 

 woods between the Kyrenian range of mountams to the 

 northern sea coast. There are none south of the range 

 until the TroiJdos mountains are reached, where they 

 again occur at altitudes of about 3000 ft. and over. On 

 the Kyrenia range it emerges in May and on Troodos in 

 July and August. Found chiefly on the truidvs of olive 

 and carob trees on the Kyrejjia mountains and on pine 

 trees on Troodos, and occasionally among rocks." — 

 G.F.W., 1918. 



A large number were sent, all of them were of good size, 

 very dark, and rich in coloration. There are no typical 

 forms and none whicli can be called race syriaca, Stdgr., 

 which are distinguished by a narrower band on all the 

 wings in both sexes, and obsolescence of it at the angle 

 of the lund-wing. ^hgq cypriaca, Stdgr., is still darker 

 and the bands on all wings nearly obsolescent. In the 

 male the band is traceable as a narrow and somewhat less 

 dark sub-marginal area suffused with the dusky coloration 

 and crossed by the wing veins widely enlarged by scales 

 of the same dark colour as the general colour of the wings. 

 The fringes are clearly light and dark chequered. The 

 ajjical eye-spot of the fore-wing is very faint and occasion- 

 ally has the white pupil non-existent. In the female 

 the band of the fore-wing is nnich narrower than in the type 

 and divided into blotches by the widely emphasised wing- 

 veins. The apical eye-spot is usually well developed, 

 but one or two examples arc without the pupil. On the 



