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Both these species produce in summer and autumn a certain num- 

 ber of dwarf specimens, generally with thin scaling and consequent 

 pale colour. Otherwise L. boeticns varies but little, whether taken in 

 the desert, the Delta, or in the Maryut Steppe. T. telicanm var. 

 eqyptiaca, in Egypt, is rare after the end of November, and remains so 

 till April. Specimens taken during this period are sometimes of the 

 typical form, with heavier and mouse-coloured markings on the under- 

 side, and thicker scaling, and therefore richer colour on the upperside 

 than those which abound in the hot months. These latter are more 

 thinly scaled above, Avhile the underside marking is more yellowish- 

 grey and opener, and in some cases is almost fawn colour. 



I had only known of two Egyptian specimens of Cvjaritis acamas, 

 one taken in September on the abandoned Cairo Suez road, by Mr. E. 

 Adair, and one taken by myself in April, 1916, on the Mokattam 

 plateau. In late April, 1918, I took three perfect specimens of C. 

 acamas, and saw others in the last mentioned locality, where Hesperia 

 amenopMs occurred, and near which P. loeivii was to be found, though 

 rarely. An expedition to the upper part of the Wadi Hof, in search of 

 P. loewii, on May 6th, 1918, did not give good results. The collectors 

 of the Entomological Section, Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, had 

 here taken some fine P. loewii, with its blue ? iovm johannae, Andres, 

 thus far only signalled from Egypt, but in 1918 the Astragalus plants 

 were in poor condition, owing apparently to the attacks of a Coleophorid, 

 and the specimens of P. loea-ii taken thereon were very small. I found 

 Astragalus forskalei growing near Dekehla, early in May, 1918, on 

 sandy grass-land near the sea. The flowers had been much eaten, but 

 no Lepidopterous larvae were obtained in them and a single specimen of 

 an Iiio, which may haye been Ino orana was the only Lepidopteron 

 taken thereon. 



During the last two years two Pierids new to the Egyptian list have 

 turned up near Cairo, viz., Iclmais {Teracolus) fausta in Wadi Rished, 

 Helwan, in early May, 1917, and Belenois uiesentina (April, 1917), also 

 in the desert Wadis, S.E. of Cairo. Mr. Marshall and others found 

 Catopsilia florella on the move, probably migrating, in March, 1917, in 

 the same area, and both the last named species have turned up in the 

 western oases. Upper Egypt, where Dr. Gough and Mr. Storey of the 

 Entomological Section, Ministry of Agriculture, have taken a good few 

 specimens. B. mesentina, in May, 1918, was found in the larval and 

 pupal stages on Capparis, by Mr. Storey. The comparative rarity of 

 Capparis in the desert S.E. of Cairo, and Mr. Marshall's observations, 

 convince me that his B. mesentina were migrants from the south. The 

 late Lieut. -Col. Manders' record of T. fausta, seen but not taken in 

 Wadi Hof, in May, was confirmed by Mr. Marshall, who in early May, 

 1917, took T. fausta and also a fine specimen of the rare Euproctis 

 susannae in Wadi Rished. 



A small collection of insects taken in early May, 1917, near Solium, 

 on the border between Egypt (or more properly Marmarica) and Cyre- 

 naica, by a brother officer, and presented to the collection of the 

 Ministry of Agriculture, included a small, very dark, but unfortunately 

 damaged, specimen of Papilio machaon, Fontia daplidice, Melitaea 

 didynia var. deserticola, and Erynnis rhamses. Of the other Pierids, 

 Pontia daplidice and SyncJdo'e glauconome were much in evidence in the 

 early summer of 1917. The former was quite abundant on the rail- 



