206 Mr. Henry J. Turner un the BuUerflies of Ci/jwus. 



Major P. P. Graves writes me : "As far as I can under- 

 stand from Reverdin's and Obertliiir's work on the subject 

 H. alveits proper does not seem to have been recorded except 

 in France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and ? Germany, etc., 

 in fairly high altitudes, and its place on the low ground is 

 taken throughout most of Europe by H. annoricanus Obthr. 

 I have taken the latter once in the Lebanon, where it 

 is a high-ground insect, and frequently at Constantinople, 

 where it occurs at the sea-level. I have seen specimens from 

 Brussa, and took one at Smyrna, Oct. 18th, 1913. The state- 

 ments made by Staudinger re the occurrence of H. alveiis 

 in Asia Minor (" Lepidopteren Fauna Kleinasiens ") are 

 worthless because he did not recognise the difference between 

 the many forms of the alveus group {onopordi, fritillum, 

 etc.). He did not submit his captures to any microscopic 

 examination of the male genitaha."] 



[Hesperia malvae L. 



Led. records this species. I did not recognise it. — 

 J.A.S.B., 1916. 



Again an unconfirmed record. 



Referring to the worthlessness of the Staudinger records 

 of this group, Major P. P. Graves writes {in lit.) : " Conse- 

 quejitly one can say httle as to what occurs in the interior 

 of Asia Minor in the way of ' spotted skippers,' " and of 

 malvae he says, " Constantinople region, not common."] 



Thymelicus (Adopaea) acleon Rott. [race obsoleta Tutt ; 

 Clara Tutt]. 



" Led. recorded this species. 1 found it conmion." — 

 J.A.S.B., 1916. 



" Fairlv common in the plains in Mav."— G.F.W., 

 1918. 



A long series were received, all very uniform and some- 

 what larger and lighter in colour than the average Central- 

 European form, especially the males. There is an absence 

 of the usually distinct pale markings noted in the British 

 and Central-European races, and hence the form may be 

 called obsoleta, Tutt, combined with form clara Tutt, that 

 with more golden brown ground-form clara- obsoleta. 



Major P. P. Graves says (w lit.): " Syrian acteon are 

 larger and much less markedly suffused than those from 

 Greece (Athens), Asia Minor, etc., in my collection." 



