44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



Melitaea trivia. — Larvae of this species seen on Verbascum thapsus 

 on April 23rd. 



Pararye meyera. — Not uncommon at Buja, April 20th. Seen at 

 Cordelio and Burnabat. 



P. maera. — One fresh male seen and missed above Cordelio on 

 April 20th. 



P. aeyeria. — A very much damaged female taken on April 23rd. 



C. pamphilus, race maryinata. — Sparingly at all stations. The speci- 

 mens I brought back much resembled those I have from Constantinople 

 except that they are perhaps a trifle lighter on the underside of the 

 hindwings than the latter. 



Total 31 species. 



II. — Pandemia. 



During a visit, which I paid to Pandemia as the guest of the Greek 

 fleet at the beginning of July, when the town was captured by the 

 Hellenic forces without opposition, I was able to get two afternoons 

 off, viz., on July 4th and July 6th at TutLiman (Mulberry Port) about 

 a mile to the E. of Pandemia. Tut Liman is a creek behind which is 

 a valley full of olive, mulberry and fig orchards, watered by a small 

 perennial brook, and bordered by steep rocky slopes. Though facing 

 north it is extremely hot and proved a good hunting ground. 



Three Lycaanids (sensu lato) were very abundant among the trees 

 early in the afternoons, swarms rising from the ground as one walked 

 through the shady patches. These were Ayriades thersites, Aricia 

 medon, and Rnmicia phlaeas. A. thersites was out in far greater 

 numbers than Polyommatus icarus, of which I saw a few specimens. It 

 has certainly appeared to me that this species, in its second brood at 

 all events, comes out earlier than P. icarus and that the " brood " is 

 more concentrated, so to speak, large numbers appearing in favourable 

 localities while P. icarus has a slow, more graduated emergence. 

 Among the specimens of A. thersites is a ? , which while identical with 

 local and Constantinople specimens of A. thersites as far as the colour 

 of the upperside, and the arrangement of the underside spotting was 

 concerned, had a tiny single basal spot on the underside of the 

 anteriors. I am not sure whether this is a case of accidental resem- 

 blance to A. thersites by an aberrant P. icarus female or an aberration 

 of A. thersites. I may note that in the Sea of Marmora region I have 

 never yet found any approach to A. thersites among females of P. icarus 

 as far as the arrangement of the spots near the tornus of the underside 

 anterior wings and near the costal margin of the underside hindwings 

 is concerned. A. medon and R. phlaeas were large and the former was 

 very decidedly of the calida form. R. phlaeas was of different forms, 

 eleits being the lightest and not the most frequent. Other insects noted 

 included Satyrus syriaca, which was quite frequent among the olive 

 trees, and Hipparchia briseis var. major, a fine large race, of which I 

 did not bring back nearly as many as I should have done. It was very 

 wary and the place where it was commonest — namely, the sea cliffs 

 near the port railway station, W. of the town — proved very difficult 

 and treacherous ground when I tried to work it for about 40 minutes 

 in the late afternoon of July 7th. S. circe was worn. Hyponephele 

 Iwpinus, of a form which seemed to me to approach intermedia, occurred 

 very sparingly in the shadiest portions of the orchards. 



