198 Mr. Henry J. Turner on the Butterflies of Ct/prus. 



of the fore-wing well outlined with dark scales, while the 

 hind-wing has a few small blue spots on the inside of the 

 orange margin. One would call the slight projections on 

 the hind margin " teeth " rather than " tails " in these 

 early specimens. The rest of the series, captured subse- 

 quently up to August, are referable to a form of the southern 

 race eleus, Fab., that is they have a dark suffusion, more 

 or less of the depth of the other black markings, running 

 from the base of the fore-wing over the whole of the discal 

 area below the diseoidal cell, internal to the marginal row 

 of spots, and only touching the black hind-marginal band 

 below and beyond the bipartite spot of the inner angle. 

 This suffusion is usually a rich brown of varying depth 

 rather than black. This particular form of the elens race 

 is the ab. turbicus of Gerhard. In fact, Tutt's description 

 in " Brit. Lep.," viii. p. 377, of Gerhard's figure might 

 have been taken from a Cyprian specimen. One phase 

 of this suffusion is the development of a brown black 

 ring around each of the black spots of the fore-wing. In 

 all these later specimens the tails to the hind-wings are 

 well developed as a rule, and even the anal angle is em- 

 phasised into a very prominent tooth almost to be called 

 a tail m some cases. There is much variation in size, 

 the smallest specimen, a male, date Aug. 5th, Troijdos, 

 measures only 22"5 mm. in expanse, while a female taken 

 there the day before measures 33*5 mm. There is but 

 httle variation in depth of the orange coloration. In some 

 examples the dark marginal area is expanded inwards 

 reaching closer to the row of black spots on the fore-wing ; 

 one or two females are well emphasised ab. caeruleopuncfata, 

 Stdgr., that is they have a row of blue spots on the hind- 

 wing. The undersides seem very uniform in both colour 

 and marking. 



Lampides boeticus L. 



"Recorded by Led. Taken by Miss Bate in 1901. I 

 found it extremely abundant, indeed in myriads in the 

 cultivated leguminous crops. "^ — J.A.S.B., 191G. 



" A very common species from April to October, both 

 on the mountains and in the plains in cultivated leguminous 

 crops. It has three broods, in March, May and September, 

 the first and last being small broods. This species varies 

 greatly in size."— G.F.W., 1918. 



The variations of the series sent are only slight extensions 



