140 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
I saw only a few insects, A fine specimen of a Doritis apollinus was 
brought to me on the 9th December,* and the usual edusa and cardui 
occurred. I noticed some common wasps (V. vulgaris?). In the 
Diptera a Stegomyiid mosquito and a red-bodied Tachinid were both 
common, the latter to be found running about on the stone walls of 
the houses. The Battery left Beirut by sea for Egypt on the 11th 
December, and my last impression of Syria was the wonderful rose- 
coloured sunset glow on the snow summits of the Lebanon range 
overlooking Beirut, for although the vegetation round the town itself 
was of a semi-tropical nature the hilltops had been covered with snow 
for some days. 
On arrival in Egypt we were stationed in a large camp just outside 
Heliopolis, one of the suburbs of Cairo, and on the opposite side of the 
City to Mena where we had quartered on our first arrival in Keypt 
nearly three years earlier. Here I noticed a true malarial mosquito, 
Anopheles pharoensis, rather to my surprise, as the camp, a newly 
formed one on the desert, was at least a mile from from the nearest 
standing water. During our stay here I had the opportunity of 
visiting the interesting collections in the Entomological section of the 
Ministry of Agriculture at Cairo, though I could not spend as much 
time there as I should have liked. In the middle of March I got my 
demobilsation papers and was fortunate in getting away just before 
the first of the native risings. I had an uncomfortable but uneventful 
three weeks going home via Taranto and Le Havre, and arrived in 
England again after three and a half years’ service abroad just in time 
to spend Haster at home. 
Allowing for the limited opportunities I had for entomological 
observations I should think a collecting trip to Palestine would prove 
interesting, but more so to Hyimenopterists and Dipterists than to 
students of other orders. The Jordan Valley in the spring would I 
believe well repay a collector, and the plains and more fertile portions 
of Palestine would likewise be attractive, but one would have to go in 
the earlier months of the year, and I certainly endorse Major Graves’ 
general remarks in his article on page 64 of the Hntomologist’s Record 
for 1919 as to taking precautions against malaria and snakebite. 
Seasonal Polymorphism and Races of some European Grypocera 
and Rhopalocera.—Additional Notes. 
By ROGER VERITY, M.D. 
(Continued from page 8.) 
Ayriades coridon, Poda, form samson1, mihi, and A. thetis, 
Rott., ab. prwrrr, mihi, and polonus, Z.—-Some years ago Ing. 
Samson of Lyons sent me two male Ayriades, which he had collected 
on June 16th, 1907, at the ‘“ foot of the Grand Saléve,” near Geneva. 
As nothing has been published about them, to my knowledge, and as 
I cannot come in touch again with Samson since the war, I think it 
advisable to make this extremely interesting form known from the 
specimen which has remained in my possession. At first sight the 
upperside colouring, of a brilliant electric blue, similar to the brightest 
and less violet specimens of the southern races of thetis, and the early 
* The specimen referred to was in perfect condition. Mr. A. H. Jones, who 
kindly identified it fur me, stated that the date was of interest as according 
to Seitz the species emerges in February and March. 
