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Nice (Bromilow) ; October 9th, 1902, on the Val Miierta, near 

 Beaulieu (Rowland-Brown) ; October 11th, 1899, at Menaggio (A. H. 

 Jones) ; October 12th, 1892, at Nice (Nicholson) ; October 13th- 

 21st, 1899, at Stresa (Jones) ; October 20th, 1886, at Gibraltar 

 (Walker) ; November 1st, 1894, in the Cirque de Tremouse, Hautes- 

 Pyrenees (Rondou) ; and in December, 1900, at Tangier (Meade- 

 Waldo). Of its occurrence in southern France, Powell says (in litt.) 

 that he has no record of its appearance at Hyeres until the month of 

 August, though he feels sure that he has occasionally seen specimens 

 towards the latter part of July ; it becomes abundant, however, about 

 the middle of August, and is fairly common throughout September 

 and October, flying in warm, sheltered spots on the Maurettes and 

 Oiseaux ranges until quite the end of November. He adds : " On 

 July 25th and 28th, 1902, no L. boeticus were flying in likely spots on 

 the Maurettes, and, in the same year, a visit to the lucerne fields near 

 the Gapeau river, on August 6th, gave no better result, although 

 Langia telicanus was flying and worn. On August 23rd I returned to 

 the fields and then found L. boeticus common in one place, flying 

 round some runner-beans with white flowers, many specimens being- 

 worn. The species is generally abundant in these lucerne fields in 

 August and September, flying very rapidly. On September 27th, 

 1902, Lampides boeticus, in good condition, was flying, in spite of high 

 wind, on slopes of the Maurettes near Fenouillet, amongst cork-oaks, 

 something after the fashion of Bithys quercus ; I took a fine female 

 and saw many males. On October 12th, of the same year, to the east 

 of Hyeres, I took one fresh female, and saw many more, more or less 

 worn. In September, 1904, the species was fairly abundant at Coste- 

 belle, where I saw it almost every day flying around and settling upon the 

 flowers and leaves of a wisteria. It appeared to me that the females 

 were ovipositing on these flowers, but they were out of reach, and one 

 could not be certain. On October 12th, 1906, a warm day after rain, 

 L. boeticus was not uncommon near St. Maximin (dept. Var.j, flying in 

 lucerne fields and feeding upon the flowers of a mint by the roadside. 

 I saw, also, several drinking at the edges of pools of water, left by the 

 night's rain, in the road. On November 25th, 1906, I saw several 

 specimens in a warm spot near the Sanatorium of the Mont des 

 Oiseaux ; they were not very fresh, but were extremely active, settling 

 for rests on the rosemary and arbutus bushes ; the sun was hot and 

 there was no wind. The males of L. boeticus, like those of Iphiclides 

 podalirius, Papilio machaon, Charaxes jasius, and some other species 

 are fond of hilltops. They will also take up a position on a bush or 

 branch, leaving it to fight some other butterfly and chase it, maybe, 

 a long way, but always returning again to the original position. In 

 Algeria, province of Oran, L. boeticus is well distributed, but I never 

 came across it in numbers. It flew on the hills to the north of 

 Misserghin (near Oran) early in May, where I took a very worn 

 female on May 3rd. I came across it again at Sebdou (920 metres) 

 on May 17th, one specimen in fresh condition, also worn, on June 

 13th ; and again on the summit of the mountain called Lato on June 

 16th. On June 26th, in the cork-oak forest between Tlemceu and 

 Terny (about 900 metres to 1000 metres), L. boeticus was not rare on 

 the bramble-flowers, and I took a few quite fresh specimens 

 with Langia telicanus. It was flying on a hilltop at Zebch (1200 

 metres) on July 11th, and was fresh at Mizab (1300 metres) on July 



