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brought the species to my mind and set me to work. After a week spent 

 in a fruitless endeavour to find the moth on the wing, I thought of the 

 Euonymus hedges, and, after sundry ineffectual attempts, hit upon one 

 in a private garden, w^here examination of the shoots produced both 

 larvffi and pupte of a Tortrix, from which I eventually reared both sexes 

 of T. promibana, thus proving conclusively that the species is established 

 in this country, but judging by the small number secured, barely a 

 dozen in all, the long time that it took to find them, and its apparent 

 absence from equally promising-looking hedges in the neighbourhood, 

 it cannot have been established in this locality very long, but I am 

 quite in accord with the Eev. F. E. Lowe in thinking that there are 

 probably many places on the south coast, where it only needs looking- 

 for to be found. It is a very distinct species, easily separable from all 

 other British members of the genus by its bright orange hindwings. 



Lepidopterological Notes from the Levant. 



By PHILIP P. GRAVES. 



Of the species of the genus Lcuiipldes, that I have collected here, I 

 took some of the examples to South Kensington when I was home, 

 and compared them with the specimens there. I certainly only know 

 Lampides boeticits, L. telicanus, L. tJtcophrastus, L. jesoiis, and L. elueus, 

 from my own observation, I have seen specimens of tibaldas {thebana) 

 and balcanica. As far as I can judge, L. boeticiis forms one section of 

 the Palfearctic species ; L. telicaniis comes nearer to L. eliseiis than any 

 other I know. I see Mr. Tuttputs L.i^Zica«i(.s in a separate genus, Lrt«_'/irt; 

 externally, L. eliseus seems to come nearer to it than any other. I can 

 say nothing about the genitalia or larval stages. L. jesous (f/anira) 

 seems to link up the L. telicaniis and L. eliseus section with L. 

 theophrastns and balcanica [cf. the black bar markings on the 

 base of the underside of the forewings and hindwings] . Galba and 

 thebana seem allied, and the former to be near Chilades trochilus 

 in habitus ; L. boeticus flies higher and more rapidly than the rest ; L. 

 theophrastns, L. Jesous, and L. telicanus have much the same flight, and 

 L. eliseus is a ground flier (but of this I have only seen a few) like 

 C. trochilus. Your readers may be interested to hear that I have good 

 grounds for suspecting the big lemon-yellow Teracolus protouicdia to 

 occur in the Sinai, and in Upper Egypt. However, I must wait till I 

 get it. I can get no evidence that any Teracolus occurs at Helwan. 

 A German, who collected there, has given me his captures, and I now 

 can give what 1 believe to be the complete list : Pontia daplidice (very 

 rare), P. glauconome, Anthocaris belia, Pi/rameis cardui, Melitaea 

 didyma, Plebeius (?) allardii (very doubtful after seeing allardii, if it is 

 that species), Polyommatus lysiiiion, Lampides boeticus, Gegenes nostra- 

 dainus, Pyryus phlomidis. At the end of January (1906), I visited Port 

 Sudan for the opening ceremony of the Nile Eed Sea line, and, though 

 I had no chance of collecting, noted L. boeticus and L. jesous, Danais 

 dorippus, and an unidentified yellow Pierid. I had two or three days 

 collecting — February lst-3rd, in the grounds of the Hotel Garden, at 

 Khartoum — (J s of Catopsilia jiorella were common, with a few 

 unapproachable $ s ; of Egyptian species, Danais chrysippus, with the 

 white aberration (alcippus) and transition forms, Lampides boeticus andl/. 

 theophrastus swarmed. Specimens of Folyommatus lysimon and Pyrameis 



