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The smallest male measures 23 mm. in expanse and the 

 largest 32 mm. 



[Carcharodus (Spilothyrus) boeticus Kamb. (marrubii Ramb.). 



" Recorded bv Led. I did not recognise it."^ — J.A.S.B., 

 1916. 



This was recorded by Led. as Hesperia marrubii. None 

 have been sent me, so I am unable to substantiate the 

 record. 



Major P. P. Graves writes me : "I take it that by 

 nuirntbii was meant one of the ultheae group, boeticus or 

 perhaps E. orienfalis Rev. I have E. boeticus from Beirut 

 and E. orientalis from Lebanon locahties."] 



Hesperia (Powellia) orbifer Hb. 



" Led. records this. I did not find it."— J.A.S.B., 1916. 



There seems to be no subsequent record of this species 

 in spite of considerable collecting over ground on which it 

 should appear if present. 



Lederer reports this species as Hesperia eucrate Esp., and 

 var. orbifer Hb. His collector, Zach, also took the two at 

 Beirut (July 1853-Aug. 1854). 



Major P. P. Graves says : " This species is so widespread 

 in Asia Minor and the North and Centre of the Syro- 

 Palestinian area, only ceasing in the low ground of part 

 of S. Palestine, that I am strongly inclined to follow Lederer 

 and put it down to the credit of Cyprus. I think that the 

 earlier collectors in the Near East frequently confused P. 

 sao Hb., or forms thereof, with P. orbifer. P. sao seems to 

 reach W. Macedonia {vide Barraud's hsts), but I have not 

 yet seen any clear evidence of its occurring in the S.E. 

 Balkans, let alone Asia Minor. I think that the large rather 

 brightly marked form of P. orbifer, which occurs in spring at 

 Beirut, etc., may be intended by Lederer for P. orbifer, and 

 that by //. eucrate may be intended the small less distinctive- 

 looking later brood specimens." 



[Hesperia (Powellia) sao Hb. [race eucrate Och.]. 

 " Led. records this. I did not find it."— J.A.8.B., 1916. 

 See the above remarks under P. orbifer.^ 



[Hesperia alveus Hb. 

 " Led. records it. I did not obtain it." — J.A.S.B., 1916. 

 This record also seems never to have been confirmed. 



