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Heliopolis. The effect of this fine butterfly fluttering round 
a scarlet poinsettia in the bright sunshine was truly gorgeous, 
and so excited was I when I first saw it alive and flying round 
the bedding plants in the gardens of the Esbekeeyeh, that I 
struck wildly with my net, and thus missed securing my first 
specimen,—so unusual is the appearance of a tropical butter- 
fly of large dimensions when seen by an Hnglishman flying in 
its natural habitat for the first time. 
The fauna of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, &c., are neither Purely 
by any means so showy nor so numerous as those of Rio and spose. 
of Port Natal ; nevertheless, our knowledge of tropical species (Aer) oy 
from many localities is more complete. As a proof of this only imper. 
may be cited the fact that I took a Yphthima, sp. ignot, in the See 
neighbourhood of Alexandretta, and in the direction of Issus, ep. ignot. ’ 
on April 30, 1883, which I showed on my return to Mr. 
Butler, at the British Museum ; but he could not find that it 
corresponded precisely with any species of that genus con- 
tained in the National collection. I had previously (April 12) 
netted one or two of the same species along the road winding 
up the cliff above the Nahr-el-Kelb, or Dog River, Beyrout ; 
but, most unfortunately, these were completely spoiled for 
specimens by getting rubbed and broken when still in the net, 
owing to my horse shying in consequence of some Orientals, 
who think nothing can be done without clamour, making a great 
noise on the steep and narrow path. In connexion with this 
subject, it may not be out of place to mention that I captured 
two specimens of a Deudorix on the 29th of November, and Deudorix, 
two again on the Ist of December, in the public gardens at Dec, issa. 
Cairo. In these instances, also, the species is uncertain. Mr. 
Butler has compared them with those in the National collec- 
tion, and finds that they approach most closely to an Indian 
species, but is inclined all the same to think that they are not 
the same, because of the wide geographical distance inter- 
posed, there being no specimens from any part of the inter- 
vening region of Arabia. Kirby enumerates twenty-nine 
species of Deudorix, by far the greater number (twenty-four) 
from India and the East Indian Islands, one from Australia, one 
from Sierra Leone, one from South Africa, one from Natal, 
and one from Mozambique. My specimens of Deudorix 
are about the size and of the tawny hue of our own 
C. Pamphilus ; with short tails, however, and with a dusky 
margin round the upper wings, and round a portion of the Tarucus | 
lower. My Tarucus Nara, from Cairo, November 29, is the ee Oe 
Cupido Nara, of Kirby; locality, India bor. according to Karsandra, 
him. My Zizera Karsandra, from the gardens of Gezeedeh, Gezeedeh, 
. P - z 5 Des. 1, 1883, 
Cairo, December 1, is his Cupido Karsandra; India bor. ; cairo, 
