406 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [May 4, 



Major Roberts forwarded the male only, for identification : it is 

 much like a small E. palleseens S on the upper surface ; but below- 

 all the brown areas are replaced by whitish, and there are two minute 

 obhquely-placed ocelli near the anal angle of the secondaries as in 

 E. hispulla. 



7. Pyrameis cardui (no. 3). 



Papilio cardui, Linn^us, Faun. Suec. p. 276. no. 1054 (1/61). 



"Common, but not at all abundant; larva found on different 

 species of thistles ; at Jutogh I have found it on the common 

 artichoke and occasionally on the mallow. June and July. Might 

 probably be very common later on in the season." 



8. MELiTiEA ROBERTSi, sp. n. (uo. 12). (Plate XXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Allied to M. didyma ; coloration and general aspect above more 

 like M. persea : bright fulvous; wings with the fringe white spotted 

 with black, these spots united at their bases by a black line ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black spots alternating with the spots on the fringe : 

 primaries with the ordinary black markings on the basal half and 

 the usual zigzag series of prominent black spots ; four minute black 

 subapical dots : secondaries with a few scattered black scales in the 

 cell and an angular series of seven black dots beyond the middle ; no 

 trace of the ordinary series of submarginal lunules. Under surface 

 paler than in M. didyma, the black markings much smaller, the sub- 

 marginal series of spots in the primaries reduced as above to four 

 subapical dots (the last two geminate) : secondaries with both black 

 and red spots reduced in size, the series of spots placed ordinarily 

 halfway between the two red bands closely approximated to the 

 series which bounds the inner edge of the outer band and continued 

 across the wing, so as to make a series of slightly interrupted annular 

 markings ; the series usually bounding the outer edge of the same 

 red baud only represented by a few black scales. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 6 lines. 



" Rather common on the bare uncultivated wastes at the foot of 

 the hills at the end of jNIay and beginning of June. I found one 

 chrysalis, but not the larva ; the chrysalis was loose in the middle of 

 a low plant." 



Lyc^nid^. 



9. Lampides b^tica Cno. 6). 



Papilio bceticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 789. no. 226 (1767). 

 " Common everywhere in April, May, June, &c.; varies extremely 

 in size." 



10. Lampides contracta, sp. n. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 3.) 



S . Glossy lilac above, the body dark grey, with the head and 

 sides of abdomen white, antennae black annulated with white : wings 

 with slender black marginal line, fringe white; base of wings bluish; 

 costal border of primaries pale bluish from the base to the end of 



