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almost all, belonging to ‘‘ distinguished” species. Pieris brassicae was 
commonest; my only P. napi resembled the Constantinople spring 
race, and my Anthocharis crameri (belia) var. espert, were somewhat 
smaller than the fine race which occurs in Mitylene, near Athens, and 
near Constantinople. The one female I took had the upperside hind- 
wings decidedly yellowish. The butterflies seen or captured here were, 
Hrynnis alceae, Rumicia phlaeas, Pieris brassicae, P. rapae, P. napi, 
Pontia daplidice g.v. bellidice, Anthocharis crameri (belia) var. espert, 
Colias edusa (one seen), Pyrametis cardui, P. atalanta, Pararye megera 
(not uncommon), and Coenonympha pamphilus (apparently the northern 
form). 
On April 2nd I was at Mitylene. Here conditions were very 
different. There were trees (chiefly fruit trees and olives) in great 
abundance, the ground was much dryer, the outcrop of rock on the 
hills more considerable, the flora far more Mediterranean than Tenedos, 
which seemed to me, as far as I could judge in a brief stay, to be much 
more like the Bosphorus shores in respect of its vegetation. But though 
Mitylene seemed attractively southern, it was by no means rich in 
Lepidoptera. A gully in the limestone, about three miles from Mity- 
lene Port, gave me four specimens of Thais cerisyi, one already worn. 
These specimens appeared to me to be large, but typical, examples of 
the normal Asia Minor race. With them I took a very battered Doritis 
apollinus. At Hiera, a warm sheltered place on the shore of one of 
the gulfs (that lying 8.S.E. of Mitylene Town), which are so marked 
a feature of the coast line of the island, I enjoyed some delightful views 
but caught little beyond a good short series of Anthocharis cramert 
(belia) var. espert. I saw no “blues” in the island and no sign of Cal- 
lophrys rubi on the hills above Mitylene, on ground that seemed very 
favourable for this insect. My captures and observations in Mitylene, 
April 2nd, 1915, were the following :—Rumicia phlaeas, Iphiclides poda- 
lirius (one seen), Thais cerisyt, Doritis apollinus, Pieris brassicae, P. rapae, 
Pontia daplidice (very few), Anthocharis crameri var. espert, Pyramets 
cardui, P. atalanta, and Pararge meyera. I left for Athens on April dth, 
by a nocturnal boat. I regretted having such little opportunity of 
exploring the interior of Mitylene, and am still of opinion that the 
Lesbian Olympus and the pine clad “Chamlk” area might produce 
some interesting insects in early summer. 
Athens, March 27th, April 6th-30th, and May, 1915.—Athens is 
sufficiently well known to entomologists to excuse a lengthy treatment 
of the entomological results of my stay there. I may say at once that 
these results were rather disappointing. Butterflies were only frequent. 
at one or two places, notably on the Daphne Road, about four miles. 
out of Athens, at one or two points on the way up Hymettus (beware 
fellow collector of the large and really dangerous sheep dogs which 
dwell there!) and on Mendeli Mountain (Pentelicos), during the last 
week of April. My most interesting captures were Hallia marloyi, of 
which I took a small specimen near Daphne, on April 10th, Melitaea 
phoebe, a very large brightly coloured and generally heavily marked 
form of which was not rare near Daphne, and occurred sparingly else- 
where. Cupido sebrus, of which I took a female on Mendeli, below the 
Monastery, on April 28rd. Thais polyaena var. cassandra, two speci- 
mens, and the fine second brood form of Anthocharis crameri var. espert, 
rightly named ‘‘ mazima,” which was just coming out on May 8rd. L 
