366 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIII. 
Common among rocks and boulders, and some at mint-flowers, in Harir 
Gorge 5,400 ft. Capt. Riley notes :— 
‘* Typical acamas, described from ‘ Syria and Arabia’ is a brighter insect 
with much less heavy black markings of upperside, and the markings of the 
underside cloudier in appearance than in hypargyros. It has a softer 
general appearance, Swinhoe’s figures in Lep. Ind. 8, are misleading. Fig. 
1 and lb are froma @ ofepargyros from Persia. Fig. la is a Q acamas 
hypargyros from Chaman. Both specimens are in the British Museum. 
Typical acamas does not appear to occur east of the Euphrates.”’ 
Genus CIGARITIS. 
C. maxima, Stud. Seitz, Vol. 1, p. 279. 
Harir, 15th July to 9th August 1918; 2 %, 3 2 (now in B. M.) 
Taken about open ground near stream; the date being apparently late 
for this species. Taken also by Aldworth at Suwarra, above Mosul, 
July 1919. 
Capt. Riley remarks :—“ Mazima is usually considered a var. of cilissa. 
I consider it a good species. The general pattern of underside in each is 
similar, but there are small and constant differences.” 
N.B—Type of Aphneus is African and differs morphologically from the 
so called Aphneus of India, &e. 
Genus ZEPHYRUS. 
Z. quercus, longicauda, Riley. A. & M.N. H., Vol. 8, p. 599, 
and see Plate, Fig. 5°6. 
Karind Gorge, 13-17th July 1918; 24¢,25 2 (12 pairs now in B. M. 
collection). 
Paitak, 7th August 1918,1@. 
Harir, 20th August 1918, 19. 
Suwarra (ex Aldworth), 1 @, 1 9 (=ab. bellus), early July 1919. 
Capt. Riley’s note on these runs :—‘‘A well marked local race. It is 
distinguished from the typical European quercus by its generally rather 
larger size, the brighter and more brilliant colour of the upperside of the 
male, and the great increase in the length of the tails. These measure 3-4 
mm. consistently against 1-2 mm.in European specimens. On tke under- 
side the general colouration is much lighter grey, the transverse white 
bands much straighter; the submarginal markings on the forewing, with 
the exception of those in areas lb and 2 which are large, dark and promi- 
nent, are aimost absent. The anal lobe of the hindwing much larger than 
in typical quercus and the black spot which covers it consequently at least 
twice the size of that in quercus. 
Three males and two females, one of the latter a beautiful example of 
ab. bellus, Gerh., taken at Suwarra, Kurdistan, 4,300 ft. in early July 1919, 
and one male from Lekkoran, 30th June 1914, (ex. Christoph. collection) all 
of which are in the B. M. are also referable to this longicauda. Although the 
males lack the brilliance of upperside colouration characteristic of typical 
longicauda, in this respect more resembling normal quercus, in all other 
points they agree with longicauda. ” 
B. M. Types No. Rh. 185 @ ; 186 Q, 16th July 1918, Karind Gorge. 
This form was common settled in considerable numbers on the upper 
and undersides of leaves, sometimes more than one on a leaf, of mulberry 
