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elevation, in mountain -meadows, with much brushwood, where also 

 Lycaena avion, Aricia eumedon, Nomiades iolas, Polyommatus amandus, 

 Brenthis hecate, and many other species occurred (Nicholl). In 

 Turkey several 2 s were observed at Port Baklar, about 12 miles from 

 Gallipoli ; the species was also very common on grassy slopes in the 

 neighbourhood of Gallipoli ; it was, indeed, the most abundant of the 

 blues on the shores of the Dardanelles in 1878-9, and was particularly 

 common in the neighbourhood of Gallipoli and the Bulair Lines ; it 

 frequented banks and slopes and the roadsides where the herbage was 

 not very luxuriant (Mathew). In Asia Minor, Miss Fountaine records 

 (Ent., xxxvii., p. 79) it from Tchekirghe, near Broussa, a beautifully 

 situated village at the foot of Mount Olympus, in a well-watered 

 country, where it occurred with Polyommatus anteros, Melitaea arduinna, 

 etc. She also took it later in June, at Amasia, whilst the species (second 

 brood) was again captured in the pine forest on the old SilvaRoad, near 

 Tokat, in July, but Holtz notes its love for the mountains in Cilicia, 

 stating that he took it in May, in the Taurus, on the Tafelbergen, and 

 later in June, near Gozna, at an elevation of 1000m. Mrs. Nicholl 

 says (Ent. Rec, xiii., pp. 171-2) that she captured it on May 14th, 

 1900, at Beit Chabab, a flourishing village in the Lebanon, about 

 3000ft. altitude, completely embosomed in mulberry trees ; also three 

 days later on the lower slopes of Djebel Sunnin, near Zaleh, at about 

 5000ft. above the sea, in a beautiful spot on red sandstone formation, 

 where grass and water were abundant, and rhododendrons and 

 Osmunda regain grew in the watercourses, whilst two days later it 

 occurred on the eastern side of the ridge, where Mrs. Nicholl had 

 gone to climb the limestone mountain Djebel Kineyseh ; one 

 wonders whether there is any connection between the extreme coloured 

 var. antiochena and the red sandstone formation. The species, 

 indeed, in this beautiful eastern form, appears to be spread over the 

 Lebanon from 2000ft. to 5000ft. Graves notes (Ent. Bee, xix., 

 p. 68) that it occurred near the summit of the Djebel Barouk, above 

 Ain Zahalta, at a height of about 6500ft. ; one worn $ was taken, in 

 company with Polyommatus amandus and GlaucopsycJie cyllarus, in a 

 mountain-meadow some 1500ft. lower ; it did not occur abundantly 

 on the mountain, flying, for a " blue," rather slowly, over patches of 

 grass and flowers in an open and stony cedar-wood. Of its habitats 

 in Central Asia, we know very little. Grum-Grshimailo states (Rom, 

 Mem., iv., p. 116) that, in the Pamir, it is an inhabitant of the lower 

 meadows of the alpine zone, clearings, marshes, and land generally 

 covered with a rich meadow vegetation. Alpheraky records it as 

 occurring in the Kounguesse-Thal, up to an altitude of 7000ft., whilst 

 in the Sarafsban Valley in Turkestan, Funke captured it up to a 

 height of 9000ft. 



British localities. — This species appears now to be extinct in 

 this country, * although at one time it was widely distributed and not 

 uncommon. — Cambridge : chalky districts— Madingley Wood, not common 

 (Stephens, Ent. Mar/., i., p. 52S), Gogmagog Hills (Denny, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxxviii., p. 77), at Papworth Everard (Beadan, E.W.I. , iv., p. 141), Cherry 

 Hinton, near Cambridge, Lawston, many years ago (Bond, Newman's Brit. Butts., 

 p. 133), Gamlingay (Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 77). Dorset: Sherborne, 



* See Chapman on '• Why is Cyaniris semiargus now not a British insect?" 

 (Ent. liec, xxi., pp. 132-133). 



