48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A List of the Butlerjiies collected by J. K. Lord, Esq., 

 in Egypt, along the African Shore of the Red Sea, 

 and in Ai^abia ; with Descriptions of the Species new 

 to Science, hy F. Walker, Esq., F.L.S., G S., &c. 



Klug, in his ' Symbolge Physicse,' has contributed much 

 to the illustration of the insects of Arabia, but the Ento- 

 mology of Egypt has been for the most part neglected. The 

 latter region, once the bed of a sea, was gradually peopled 

 with an insect-fauna, partly resembling that along the shores 

 of the Mediterranean, and of which there are some traces on 

 the sandy sea-coasts of England. This fauna has been 

 modified by the very ancient cultivation of the soil, and by 

 the agency of the Nile in distributing along its banks some 

 of the products of the interior of Africa. 



The localities in which insects were collected by Mr. 

 Lord are as follows : — 



Egypt. — Cairo, Shoobra, Heliopolis, Red Mountain, 

 Geezech Pyramids. 



Africa, near the Red Sea, — Berenice, Souakin, Hor 

 Tamanib, Massowah, Sheykh Berout, Akeek (island), Har- 

 keko, Dahleck (island), Rafla (Annesley Bay), Tajora (vStraits 

 of Bab-el- Mendeb), Akeeko (Arab village), Zayla (Indian 

 Ocean). 



Arabia. — Wady Genneh, Wady Amara, Wady Sidri, Wells 

 of Moses, Pharoah's Baths, Wady Ferran, Wady Nash, Wady- 

 es-Sheykh, Tor, Wady Gharandel, Wady Hebran, Plain of 

 Ramleh, Gebel, Musa (Mount Sinai), gardens round Mount 

 Sinai, sandy plains (Mount Sinai), Convent Garden (Mount 

 Sinai), Wady Atall. 



L Papilio MacJtaon, Linn. Mount Sinai. 



2. Pier is Rapce, Linn. Cairo. 



3. Pieris Eris, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 6, f. 15, 16. Cairo. 



4. Pieris Mesentina, Crdiin, Hor Tamanib, Harkeko, Rafla, 

 Tajora. 



5. Pieris Lordaca,v\, Expands 2 in. White. Fore wing: a 

 broad brown stripe on the costa, emitting at a little before half 

 the length of the latter a broad oblique truncated branch to the 

 discoidal cell, thence abruptly attenuated till it joins the broad 

 blown band along the hind margin, this band undulating 



