ISi [August, 



in the dry water courses empurpled with ^ryngium creticum that scar the eastern 

 slope of the Mount of Olives on the first of June, and which, in September, had 

 disappeared. 



Chrysophanus stygianus, Butl., 19/5 — 20/7. — A dusky Mediterranean form of 

 the " Small Copper," which has the tails of the hind-wings more or less long, but 

 little of its gem-like beauty when seen reposing on a grass plot in an English lane. 

 Like its prototype it flew away and returned to settle on the sunny ground under 

 the wall of the vineyard. 



Plebeius Trochilus, Freyer, 30/6 — 18/8. — This minute butterfly fluttered over the 

 sunburnt grass in July, and settled on the sparse flowers that had braved the 

 drought. 



Folyommatus bcBticus, L., 2/6 — 9/6. — Settled on the bushes in the garden in 

 June, in the manner of a hair-streak. 



Scolitantides Baton, Berg., 2/6. — Flies in company with Icarus among the rocks 

 on the hill slopes that border the left side of the Jaffa road as you leave Jerusalem. 



Cupido Icarus, Eott., a variety that is near pusillus, Grarb., 29/5 — 28/7. — This 

 common "Blue " is plentiful in the gardens and vineyards during the summer. 



HESPERIID^. 



Pyrgus altheae, Hb., var. bceiicus, Ramb., 8/8 — 12/8. — Flies here and there iu 

 the ravines at the end of summer. I saw one at Bethlehem. 



Hesperia orbifera, Latr., 16/6 — 29/7. — Flies here and there in the ravines 

 during the summer. I saw one among the sand hills in the Wilderness of Judea. 



Thymelicus lineola, O., 2/6, 16/6. — I saw one on the top of the Mount of Olives 

 on the second of June, and later on I discovered a group collected under the stone 

 wall near the windmill that overlooks the Railway Station at Jerusalem. 



At Jaffa, in April, I captured Euchloe Belemia and Azamus Gamra, a little 

 " Blue " with green eye spots on the under-side of the hind-wings. 



Redbridge, Southampton : 

 April, 1898. 



NOTE ON ASPIDIOTUS QREJSNIL 

 BY PROF. T. D. A. COCKEKELL, F.E.S. 



In Bull. 6, Tech. Ser., Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agriculture, p. 27 

 (fig. 7), I named as A. Qreenii a species on Cycas from Kandy, Ceylon, 

 sent to me by Mr. Green as A. cyanophylli. I now learn from Mr. 

 Green that there were three species on the Oycas at Kandy, and by 

 mistake he sent me, not the species he called cyanophylli, but the one 

 he referred to cydonice. 



I now believe that the A. cyanophylli of Green's " Coccidcs of 

 Ceylon," and the insect reported by me (I- c, p. 27, footnote) from 

 Mazatlan, Mexico, are the true cyanophylli of Signoret. Comstock's 

 cyanophylli is doubtless the same, as I learn from Mr. Pergande that 



