Meliteea Didyma 
Lyczena Melanops 
ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. 
Road to Great St. Ber- 
nard, 1867 
According to Kirby, found 
in South of Europe, and 
113 
Corfu, June, 1882 
Alexandretta, April 28, 
1882 
called Cupido Melanops 
Satyrus Semele Road to Gt. St. Bernard, Neighbourhood of Athens, 
1867 May and June, 1882 
Epinephele Ida According to Kirby, South 
of Europe, Algeria 
South of France, 1830 ; 
Villers la Ville, near 
Brussels, 1857; Lu- 
cerne, 1865; Bellagio, 
Genoa, Pontresina, 1872 
This list might be further extended, but what has been 
already stated will amply suffice. As a matter of course, 
these artificial divisions, framed for the sake of convenience, 
will overlap one another to a certain extent; and some of the 
most characteristic species of the South of France, the 
Vallais (where, twenty years since, 1 saw more species of 
butterflies in one single day than I had ever seen in my life 
before), and the Hast at the same time, are also found, though 
very rarely (Argynnis Lathonia, for example), in England. 
S. Semele is also English, somewhat local, but abounding in 
limestone and slaty districts in North Wales and North of 
England, which resemble the geological formation in Greece ; 
and the lower wings of the Grayling (which is its Hnglish 
name), when it is settled on a rock, can scarcely be discerned 
from the lichen that overspreads the boulder. 
Thais may be regarded as an Hastern genus for all practical 
purposes, as nearly every collection from Palestine, or Syria, 
or Asia Minor contains either T’. Apollina (Doritis Apollinus 
according to Kirby), T. Cerisyi, or both species. And T. 
Apollina is quite the commonest butterfly during the month of 
March in Palestine, where I captured it on the plain of Sharon, 
and also where it occurred in great abundance on the Mount of 
Olives. I have never met with any species of this tribe 
anywhere on the Continent ; and though it be true that T. 
Rumina, for example, is found in the South of France, and 
its variety, Medesicaste, in Algiers, still this does not invali- 
date the general claim of the tribe to be regarded as a sub- 
tropical, thoroughly Hastern genus. It is, in fact, the repre- 
sentative in Asia Minor, Syria, and the .Holy Land of 
Parnassius, in Switzerland. And Thais Apollina is no doubt 
termed so from the supposed similarity of its markings to 
those of the commonest Swiss species, Parnassius Apollo. I 
also caught this insect in the meadows in the vicinity of 
Baalbec and Shtora, where it disports itself on and among the 
Corfu, June, 1882 
Argynnis Lathonia Philadelphia, May, 1882 
Purely 
Eastern 
species. 
Genus Thais. 
