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specimens occur wliicli appK^aeli the more northern typical 

 coloration. The uppersides are very uniform in marking 

 in both sexes, and there appears to be no diflierence in size, 

 colour, nor marking between the two broods so far as my 

 small series shows. 



Pararge maera L. [race orientalis Stdgr.]. 



" Led. records the form adrasta. I obtained specimens 

 of both forms. Miss Bate obtained the species in 1901." — 

 J.A.S.B., 1916. 



" I think P. maera are Staudinger's var. orienfaUs 

 rather than true adrasfa." — A.E.d., 1916. 



" Found in the plains and on the mountains in small 

 numbers. The first brood of this rather uncommon species 

 emerges in March and another in May."- — G.F.W., 1918. 



From the short series received which are mainly females 

 this species as represented in Cyprus is remarkably uniform 

 in colour, marking and size. It has the adrasta Dup., 

 characteristic, increase of the fulvous areas on all wings, 

 but is rather of a brown yellow than of an ochre yellow, 

 and hence should be designated the race orienfaUs Stdgr. 

 Curiously only one specimen has the apical spot bipupillate, 

 which is a strong character of the females as a rule. This 

 remark also holds for the underside. The hhid-wings 

 above show scarcely any brown yellow on the disc, the 

 brown suffusion being predominant. 



Epinephele telmessia Zell. (E. jurtina v. telmessia Zell.) [race 

 kurdistana Riihl. (?)]. 



"Not common and extremely worn at Larnaka, June 25th, 

 1902."— T.B.-F., 1902. 



" This species was common ; my specimens were race 

 hispidla"— 3 .AB.B., 1916. [Not i-ecorded by Led.] 



" A very common species both in the plains and on the 

 mountains from April to August. Found in small caves, 

 on the briidvs of rivers and under the shade of thick trees, 

 preferably wattle."— G.F.W., 1918. 



Until the paper published in the " Bull. Soc. ent. Fr.," 

 p. 225 (1912) by Le Cerf, the form telmessia Zell., had 

 been regarded as a jurtina race. However, when the 

 genitalia of the two were examined and compared, ample 

 evidence of their ]:>ehig distinct species was obtained. In 

 jurtina there were found to exist two peculiar prolongations 



