188 Mr. Henry J. Turner on I he Bullerjlies of Cyprus. 



there is a prevalence of the soft grey mottled with darker 

 grey, but not uniformly so, as in most of the Central 

 European forms. Across the wing in this sex run two 

 wide bands of darker shade,, deep and abrupt on the outer 

 side, but dissolving more or less into the ground on the 

 inner, and tinged with a rich brown. The inner band is 

 sometimes interrupted in the middle and may have none 

 of the lighter mottled ground of the basal side of it. Some 

 of the females of the fergana form show slight traces of 

 the reddish brown on the outer marghis of the irregular 

 white band above, an inc-ipieut stage of the very fine $ 

 ab. pirata Esp. 



The ab. 'pirala, of which a short series have been sent, 

 has the band on the upperside of a bright reddish ochreous 

 colour. This form is somewhat larger than the fergana 

 female, and one or two examples are without pupils to the 

 eye-spots. There is a curious parallelism between S. 

 briseis and the Spanish species S. 2^'ieun Pier., both 

 species possessing a reddish-ochreous form of the female, 

 which in the latter species is known as ab. uhagonis Obthr., 

 and is also a very large and strong-lookhig insect. 



Satyrus anthe Och. 



" 1 found this species but not very commonly. 1 to<»k 

 one specimen on the southern range at over (KKK)ft. up."- — 

 J.A.S.B., 191G. 



" A very rare species met with on Troodos at 5UUU- 

 60UU ft."— G.F.W., 1918. 



Hipparchia semele L. [race mersina Stdgr. ; ab. triocellata 



Kag.J. 



" I found this species coiimion, and specimens which I 

 sent to Tring were there identified as the form mersina." — 

 J.A.S.B., 1916. (Not recorded by Led.) 



" H. semele v. mersina is very evenly coloured below 

 and different from any form I have." — A.E.G., 1910. 



" A common species occurring everywhere from April 

 to August. Found both in the ])lains and on the mountains. 

 In the mountains it usually rests on pine trees, and in the 

 plains it is found among rocks." — G.F.W., 1918. 



The mersina form is nuich larger than the British race 

 in both sexes, and the males are only slightly smaller 

 than the females. In general coloration a long series 

 strikes one as darker than any other race. The females 



