ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. 119 
be of real service, as the few particulars in which I feel myself 
compelled to differ from the Canon arise almost altogether 
from the diversity of names employed to indicate certain 
species. 
The Rev. J. G. Wood has caused three kinds of Syrian Rev. J. G. 
butterflies to be figured in his illustrations of “ Bible itustrations 
Animals,” namely,— Sek el 
: his Bible 
Anthocaris glauce Animals, 
Hipparchia Persephone 
Papilio virgatus, 
and of these Anthocaris glauce, which he calls the Syrian 
orange-tip, is the Belemia of my catching above recorded— 
Euchloe Belemia according to Kirby. The butterfly that 
Mr. Wood calls Hipparchia Persephone, and which he names 
the Syrian grayling, is termed Hipparchia anthe in my 
collection. J never saw or caught it, however, in the Hast 
myself. My two specimens that I had before are labelled 
Europe as regards habitat, and Kirby assigns as its locality 
South Hurope and Western Asia. ‘The third species, Papilio 
virgatus, has already been fully discussed. 
Of Lepidoptera Heterocera I have it in my power to state Hypotheti- 
very little. Whether the scarcity of moths is to be attributed Skizned fo 
assigned for 
to the coldness of the atmosphere after the sun has set in fan wwe 
regions where the wind blows uninterruptedly across the (epi. | 
desert, with no intervening obstacle or shelter to break its i ioeers) 
force, or to the short duration of a Syrian twilight, or to the freer.” 
scanty amount of wood, and, at all events, of large timber in 
many places, or to all these causes combined, is a matter of 
opinion. Granted that there were trees of requisite size for 
sugaring, and in a suitable situation for pursuing that method 
of attracting moths, it would be absolutely unsafe to examine 
the trunks after nightfall in the neighbourhood of any 
Eastern town or village, unless attended by an armed guard. 
There are no evenings, as with us, at the same time close, 
cloudy, and damp —such as moths love—in lands where there 
is literally no haze or fog whatever to obscure the distant 
view. All that I have to state, therefore, with regard to 
moths seen in the Hast is taken from my article on this 
subject in the Mntomologist for the month of January, 1886, 
and is as follows :— 
“ Of moths, the number of species is very scanty, so far as Enumera. 
tion of moths 
my personal observations went—to wit, Saturnia pyri, at captured in 
Beyrout ; Arctia villica, on the banks of tHe Meles ; ZAygzena te Bast. 
briseee in the Stadium, and Pnyx at Athens, and Z. carniolica 
in the Pass of Danhne; Dasydia obfuscata (Scotch annulet), 
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