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A "BUTTERFLY SUMMER" IN ASIA MINOR. 

 By Makgaeet E. Fountaine, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 108.) 



The following is a list of my captures : — 



Papilio podaliriuii, L. — Generally distributed ; very common at 

 Broussa in April and May. Some of the specimens of the summer 

 brood at Amasia had an inclination, more or less, for var. zanclceus, Z. 



P. machaon, L. — Not so common as the preceding. 



Thais cerisyi, B. — I took some magnificent males at Broussa, at 

 the end of April and in May ; they did not differ from the typical form, 

 except in being rather larger. At Amasia, at the end of May, this 

 butterfly was over, but I collected a good quantity of the larvae, which 

 I found feeding on a small-leaved dwarf aristolochia, from which I 

 have about thirty healthy pupse, so that I hope in the spring to obtain 

 some var. deyroUei, Oberth. 



T, polyxena var. cassandra, Hiib. — Two specimens only from 

 Broussa in April and May. 



Doritis apollinus, Hbst. — Common locally near Broussa towards the 

 end of April. The specimens are larger and finer than those I have 

 from Syria ; but though the females are much darker, and generally 

 more or less suffused with red on all the wings, the small red marks 

 which are present on the fore wings of the males in all my Syrian 

 specimens, are either entirely, or almost entirely, absent in everyone 

 I took at Broussa. At Amasia this butterfly was completely over, and 

 the larvae, even on the Lokman (4000 ft.) already nearly full-fed. 



Aporia cratagi, L. — A splendid form, common at Broussa in May. 



Pieris brassica, L. — Not very common ; all the specimens I saw 

 were typical. 



P. raptE, L. — Not common anywhere ; I only observed it occa- 

 sionally, and seem to have but one specimen, which I took at Broussa 

 in September. 



P. 7iapi, L. — Also not common. I have one typical specimen from 

 Broussa in May. 



P. daplidice, L. — Abundant at Amasia. The females were large, 

 and broadly marked, whereas the males were for the most part small 

 and undersized. 



P. chloridice, Hiib. — The summer brood appeared at Amasia about 

 the second week in June. Up a side valley, with a dried-up water- 

 course, off the north side of the Kerasdere, it flew abundantly, but the 

 males were extremely difficult to catch. It was also not uncommon 

 in the Tshirtshir Valley, fresh specimens being easily met with 

 throughout July. 



Anthocharis belia var. axisonia, Hiib. — Common on the plateau at 

 the top of the Caraman on June 16th. 



A. cardamines, L. — Common at Broussa in April. 



Zegris menestho, Men. — Over at Amasia when I got there at the 

 end of May ; I only took one good female on the 30th of that month, 

 and two more females early in June ; but neither of these were really 



