110 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 
P. virgatus. Tt may be remarked that the Eastern real or supposed 
variety of P. Podalirius has received another name, P. vir- 
gatus, owing presumably to some difference in the stripes. 
The specimen of P. virgatus that I have had for some years 
in my cabinet is from Damascus; the one that was captured 
during my visit to the Hast is from Baalbec. If there be a 
distinction, as far as I can see, it is in the fact that P. virgatus 
has a narrower dark margin; P. Feisthameli, the German 
F.¥eis. variety (which has also a whitish in place of the primrose 
‘ground colour), a broader ditto than is the case with the 
ordinary type of P. Podalirius. P.Machaon was noticed at 
Ephesus, and on Mount Pagus at Smyrna. P. Podalirius was 
again seen at Deceleia and in Corfu. I pointed out P. 
Alexanor to my courier near the Sisyrha quarter of ancient 
Ephesus, when he captured it, a large specimen, in fine con- 
dition, and the only one I have ever seen alive. I consider 
this insect as good a catch as any I succeeded in making in 
the Hast. As regards the fourth European species of Papilio, 
P,Hospiton. P, Hospiton, it does not enter into the present discussion, 
being exclusively confined to Corsica. 
- Faunaofthe Tt would be going too far, perhaps, to assert, in the absence 
terranean of further evidence than such observation as I have been able 
littoral—how 
exemplified to bestow, that our three common species of Pieridz, so 
Mecamloey: abundant at home, are actually rare in the Hast. I can only 
in respect of say that I have never seen many of them there. I saw and 
‘captured one (female) of P. Brassicee at Alexandretta in 
April, and one (male) of P. Rapz at Philadelphia in May. 
On the other hand, it is certain that three other species 
of Pieridee, either very rare or local with ourselves, are by no 
means so along the Mediterranean littoral, and that I caught 
all the said three kinds, and one of them in abundance, in 
the East. This will be best exemplified by the following 
statistics :— 
Bynchlve. 1. Synchloe Daplidice. Bath white. (Our rarest English 
ae butterfly, and never seen by me alive in England.) 
Of this butterfly there are specimens in the collection 
belonging to Highgate School, captured at Rome and Milan 
by a relative, at Lido and Ajaccio by myself. Ditto in my 
own collection, and captured by me between Jerusalem and 
Jericho, and on the banks of the Jordan, at Colonos and 
Cerameicus, Athens, and at Philadelphia. 
Leucophasia 2. Leucophasia sinapis. Wood white. (Only seen by me 
inapis, F : 
in the New Forest, in England.) 
I have caught it in osier-beds near Martigny, at Gorla, 
Bellaggio, and, as regards the Hast, in Corfu. 
