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later. On both occasions I took species which I did not 

 meet with elsewhere. I then went to Beit Cliabab, a 

 Lebanon village, where my dragoman lived, and thence 

 we started with tents on May 17th, and crossed the main 

 ridge of Lebanon to Zableh by a pass between Djebel 

 Sunnin and Djebel Keneysseh. 



On the eastern slope of Djebel Keneysseh I took a good 

 many interesting butterflies, all of which, however, I met 

 with later. Weather continued very cold and windy, but 

 it improved as we worked our way slowly northwards, 

 along the foothills on the eastern face of Lebanon. We 

 were several days reaching Ain Aata, a well-known halting- 

 place on the direct track from Baalbek to the Cedars. I 

 made many interesting captures on this route, of which 

 the most remarkable were E. ckarlonia, Th. myrtale, C. 

 asabinus, G. ocliimus, and G. thcrsamon, var. omphale, Lycama 

 semiargus, var. Antiochena and var. Bcllis, L. antcros, var. 

 crassipuncta, and L. Isaurica. From Ain Aata I rode to 

 the Cedars, across the high main ridge of Lebanon, return- 

 ing same day (May 27th). There was still much snow on 

 the pass, and no butterflies out above 5000 feet, so I 

 resolved to give up the higher Lebanon for the present, and 

 to try the lower range of the Anti-Lebanon and Hermon. 

 Near Baalbek, in cornfields on chalk hills, I took the first 

 specimens of an unknown Lycxnct with orange spots on the 

 upper side of the hind-wings. This insect frequents chalk, 

 as all my specimens well marked with orange on the upper 

 side were taken in cornfields on the chalk. Here, too, I 

 got a specimen of L. loewii. 



From Baalbek I crossed a very wild, mountainous 

 district, where butterflies were abundant, to the old Roman 

 road leading southwards to Damascus. This we followed 

 to Zebedani and Blouden, and I went up Djebel Chekif, 

 7000 feet high, where I found a good deal of snow (it was the 

 first week of June), and no butterflies except, P. megsera and 

 Vanessa urticte, var. turcica. But Blouden and Zebedani 

 again proved good collecting ground, and here I caught 

 V. polychloros, Par. roxclana, and Z. theophrastus, none of 

 which I ever saw elsewhere. We then turned southwards 

 to Hermon, and rode for several days across low rocky 

 limestone mountains, quite treeless and much overgrazed, 

 but cultivated more or less in the hollows. I took a good 

 many butterflies on this route, of which Sat. pelopea and 

 Sat. acted, var. hadjina, were the most remarkable. The 



