ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. 1il 
3. Aporia crategi.* Black-veined white. (If I ever caught Anon: 
this butterfly, or even saw it alive in England, it is fee 
upwards of twenty-five years since.) I have caught 
it at Fontainebleau, Chamounix, Bayeno, on the Lago 
Maggiore, and, as regards the Hast, in abundance at 
Ephesus, on the slopes of Mount Prion, and I have 
also seen it at Deceleia. 
A prima-facie reason for the non-appearance of the 
commoner sorts would seem to be the absence of the culti- 
vation of cabbages and turnips, that serve as food-plants for 
the caterpillars of Brassicee and Rapze, to the same extent as 
at home; for, though there are market-gardens in the neigh- 
bourhood of Jerusalem, and on the site of the King’s garden, 
mentioned by Nehemiah, close to the Pool of Siloah, these 
are principally devoted to the production of artichokes and 
salads. 
Some specimens of one, P. Brassicew, that I saw several Brassice of 
years since in the collection made by Mr. Lord in Egypt, were, Ezypt. 
to the best of my recollection, both larger and yellower than 
our own, in consequence, in all probability, of the warmer 
climate. : 
The Vanessas constitute our gayest tribe of butterflies at Absence of 
home; yet those that I have seen are few and far between the East. 
in the Hast; indeed, of V. Hgea, which is not a British V. Eges. 
species, I saw (but, unluckily, failed to capture) one specimen 
in the dry bed of the Sari-kizi, or stream of the fair girl, at 
Philadelphia. This butterfly belongs likewise to the Medi- 
terranean littoral, being found in the South of Europe. 
Perhaps V. Atalanta, V. Io, and V. Urtice need our nettle, 
V. Polychloros our elm, as a food-plant. It is true that 
in one or two places I saw V. Atalanta—the Acropolis, i ene 
for example, and Pass of Daphne; and V. Urtice once,+ I 
think, in Corfu; but these are only exceptions to the rule. I 
must have missed the right time and place for this particular 
genus, for that all our seven species of Vanessa are found in 
Asia Minor and elsewhere, I make no doubt, on reference to 
Kirby’s Lepidoptera; and from what I have elsewhere read. 
VY. Antiopa is mentioned in Canon Tristram’s article on V. Antiopa, 
“Palestine” in the Dictionary of the Bible, and is, no doubt, far 
* I took this in unlimited quantity about Torquay in May and June, 
1855.—H. B, Tristram, 
+ These come out in the hilly and oak-clad parts in July and August. 
Plentiful in Bashan in July.—H. B. T. 
