116 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.8. 
Melitea occ. North-West Provinces, in short. And to Melitea Trivia, 
Trivia, _ of which I took four specimens in May round the ruins of 
May, 188. St. John’s Church, Ephesus, Kirby assigns Northern and 
Hestem Western Asia as its habitat. In reference to Skippers, I 
vanes caught six specimens of Pamphila Nostradamus in the gardens 
aostt- of Gezeedeh on December 1. This species is recorded by 
Gardens of Kirby from South Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa. 
Dec 1, 1883, Erynnis Alcese, of which I only captured one specimen at 
Sage the Acropolis, in May, 1882, is, according to Kirby, found in 
Erynnis North Africa, North and West Asia, and in Europe. I must 
Acropolis, not omit to make mention of Lyczena Beetica, according to 
Leia Kirby Cupido Beeticus, which I caught in or near Cairo on 
Ga,» December 10. The specimens I had previously in my cabinet 
Dec.10, —_ are labelled India, and it would seem to be widely distributed 
5 over three continents, as Kirby records it from South Europe, 
South Asia, as well as Africa. It was first noticed on our 
English coast about or nearly thirty years ago. In common 
with several tropical species of Polyommatus, but unlike | 
every English one in this respect, it has short tails, similar to 
those of a Thecla, and is also found a long distance up the 
Nile, as, if my memory serves me rightly, I noticed it at Aboo 
Simbel, nearly 900 miles from Alexandria. 
Which Rightly to determine which country in the Hast is most 
Gone productive in butterflies, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, 
jaitedin the ‘Turkey and Greece ought all to be visited in successive years, 
regarded as and for the same period of the year,—four months, say, from 
productive the beginning of March to the end of June. ‘Then, given 
“ge equally favourable conditions of weather, a comparison might 
fairly be instituted, and some adequate conclusion arrived at. 
But if the traveller, as was the case with myself, happens to 
be in March in Egypt, in March and April in Palestine, in 
April in Syria, in May im Asia Minor and Turkey, in May 
and June at Athens, and in June at Corfu, the chances are 
that, as the summer advances, he will capture most kinds of 
butterflies in the country he visits last. It is needless to 
remark that he must bear in mind all the kinds he sees, not 
only what he succeeds in capturing, and that whichever 
country he is in, probably some of the March kinds will 
have disappeared at the end of May, and so on, and that 
not only the number of species belonging to any particular 
district, but the number of purely Eastern epeiee, is to be 
taken into account. 
Compare the accompanying rough calculation of my 
captures in 1882 of various butterflies in the order of the 
different countries as I travelled :— 
