46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



M. Idrissa. — Very worn. Had evidently been common, 2 s only 

 taken. 



Total, 35 species. The absence of H. semele may surprise the 

 reader as it surprised me. 



III.— Brusa. 



From September ]9th to September 21st inclusive I was at Brusa. 

 I collected daily but did not venture up the mountain, since this huge 

 area of rock, forest and gulley is altogether too large to be patrolled 

 by the Greek forces now holding Brusa, and it would have been unfair 

 to ask the Hellenes for gendarmes for special protection of a casual 

 visitor. On the 19th I went down early to the marsh known as Softa- 

 Bughan (the Softa Swallower, so-called because a Softa or theological 

 student once perished there) to look for Chrysophanus dispar v. rutilus. 

 The marsh was too dried up to be in the least dangerous, and there 

 were fewer patches of dried mud and reeds in it than there were banks 

 and islands of firm and solid ground. Flowers were still fairly 

 numerous, thistles, various kinds of spearmint, a sort of agrimony, 

 etc., but butterflies were rather uncommon. The commonest although 

 the hardest to catch was Everes argiades of the third brood, a very 

 small form indeed. It differed greatly from the Everes which I have 

 taken at Kury Yalova, and which I suppose to be E. alcetas. The 

 small Brusa insect has a good show of orange spotting near the anal 

 angle underside hindwing. The sub-marginal spots on the underside 

 of the anteriors are of linear shape, less round than those of the 

 Yalova species, and their alignment is slightly different in some 

 specimens. The tails of the hindwings are more developed in the 

 supposed argiades. On the other hand the supposed alcetas from 

 Yalova has very faint traces of pale yellow scaling about the ocellated 

 spot on the underside of the hindwings near the anal angle, though I 

 do not believe that such traces of yellowish scaling, if present in an 

 Everes, must necessarily prove that it is not alcetas. I took a short 

 series, mostly consisting of males here, and afterwards found the insect 

 elsewhere near Brusa always in moist localities. It was hard to catch 

 and easily damaged in setting. Of C. rutilus I only took 2 worn and 

 rather chipped females that day. 



Next day I went out on a picnic to Kestel some 9 miles E. of 

 Brusa. I had little time for collecting there, but saw two male 

 C. rutilus in an overgrown irrigation ditch and caught both. They 

 were slightly chipped but in good condition otherwise, and one was of 

 fair size. Very lovely they looked in flight. Lampides boeticus 

 occurred here in fields where a sort of runner bean was cultivated, I 

 think the Leblebe, a plant akin to Dolichos lablab of Syria. I fear I 

 neglected L. boeticus. I have seen so much of it in Egypt and parts of 

 Syria, and save in size it is so distressingly invariable. Anyhow I 

 only brought back one pill-boxed specimen and it proved to, be 

 damaged. Other things taken here were Leptosia sinapis of the third 

 brood (rare), P. aegeria and Polyommatus icarus. On the previous day 

 I had worked a steep slope above Chekirgeh to the W. of Brusa town, 

 and found P. icarus abundant and with it plenty of Aricia medon in 

 bad order, P. anteros, fresh males, and a few L. dorilis. All of the last 

 species I could take I took, and all were fresh but with great splits and 

 chips in their wings. The form did not differ from that of 

 Constantinople. 



