LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTED IN NIGERIA. 101 



modation — clean but rough — can be obtained during the spring 

 months (which I should imagine was the best time for collecting 

 here) at the house of a Syrian woman named Takla Abood, who 

 speaks English ; and in summer there is a mountain hotel. At 

 Bsherreh, about one hour's walk or ride from the Cedars, situated 

 in a magnificent position overlooking a glorious well-watered 

 valley, there is now a new hotel, very small but most clean and 

 comfortable, with the most obliging host and hostess, both of 

 whom, having spent some time in Australia, can speak English. 

 Bsherreh is approached on the west by a carriage-road, and is 

 two days' drive from Beyrout by Tripolis ; or, on the east over 

 the pass of the Jebel-el-Arz, about ten or twelve hours' ride from 

 Baalbek, with good collecting most of the way. At Baniyas I 

 would willingly have made a much more protracted stay, as 

 from what I did see I should say it was one of the best "butterfly 

 corners " in Syria ; but I only passed it as one of the halting- 

 places on my ride from Damascus to Jerusalem, and not being 

 provided with tents, the accommodation in the native house 

 where I put up was of such a nature that my courage failed me 

 at the thoughts of another night in Baniyas, so I decided to ride 

 on to Giayoni. But I feel sure that for those who should be 

 camping out, and therefore independent of the horrors of native 

 houses, this neighbourhood would afford excellent collecting. 



7, Lansdown Place (East), Bath: Dec. 1901. 



A LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTED by DR. CUTHBERT 

 CHRISTY IN NIGERIA. 



By Emily Mary Sharpe. 

 (Concluded from p. 68.) 



Family Lyc^nid^. 



46. Lachnocnema d'urbani, Trimen. — a. Jebba ; May. 



47. PiLODEUDORix C.ERULEA {H. H. Druce). — a, b, S' . Juju- 

 rock, Jebba ; November. 



48. ViRACHOLALiviA (iiCk^i).— «. Juju-rock, Jebba; November 

 This species was hitherto supposed to be restricted to Aden 



whence there are specimens in the British Museum. 



49. ViRACHOLA ANTALus (iJop/'.). — tt-c, <? . Juju-rock, Jebba 

 November, d, $ . Lokoja ; May. 



50. SuKiDioN lASis {Hewits.). — a, ^ . Juju-rock, Jebba 

 November. 



** Pilodeudorix carulea, Vii'achola livia, and Sukidion iasis 

 seem to frequent high ground, as I only came across these species 

 on the Juju-rock."— C. C 



