102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



May 21. — (Kizil Eobat.) <?, bright orange upperside and 



yellow U. 

 June 28. — White 2 seen ; yellow-orange 2 with white centre to 

 discdl. spot on U f.w. taken ; a very brightly 

 coloured $ seen. 

 Jul3--0ct. — (Busy at Kirkuk.) 



Nov. 3. — (Baiji, Et. bk. K. Tigris.) Several rather worn seen. 

 ,, 6. — Very common in worn state. 

 1920: 



May 25-26. — (Baiji.) Larva pupated ( $ croceus emerged 



1 June). Fd.-plt. lucerne. 

 June 3. — Very common about lucerne ; white female taken 

 in cop., two other white ? 2 taken, one ovi- 

 positing on lucerne. Yellow female also seen 

 ovipositing. Does not pause long to lay the egg ; 

 egg laid singly on middle of half of upperside of 

 medium-sized leaf. 

 ,, 4. — V. common about lucerne : pair (both sexes 

 yellow) taken in cop., the female being in very 

 fresh state. Another fine fresh female being 

 courted by two males, and apparently recently 

 emerged, taken. 

 Two white 2 ? taken having much grey about them 

 above. Yellow female seen ovipositing on lucerne. 

 ,, 8. — Very common, seven white females taken and some 



very fine males. 

 ,, 9. — One white 2 taken and another seen. 

 „ 13. — At lucerne ; one very good example of true helice 

 form, cream coloured with tinge of orange about 

 the postr. margin of the fore wings ; grd. col. 

 beneath yellow. The only true helice yet taken 

 here, although white females are common, and 

 it is quite distinct from these. Several white 

 females were taken in about half an hour (8.30 

 to 9 a.m) at the same spot. This helice female 

 laid several eggs of the usual spindle shape in 

 the paper envelope. 

 „ 15. — A white ? with large amount of grey at base of f.w., 



but orange discal spot on h.w. 

 ,, 19. — White 2 taken, another seen. 



About 6 p.m. took a remarkably large white female. 

 Took larva of croceus this morning on lucerne. 

 ' Colour uniform dark green matching very well the 



colour of the lucerne leaves, lateral white line with 

 red dot on it at each segt. With a temperature 

 of 114° inside my tent this larva was not happy 

 inside an inverted tumbler with plant in water. 

 In the cool of the evening it showed a little more- 

 sign of life when put on lucerne inside an old net. 



