Butterflies of the Lebanon. 8l 



6. Thais cerisyi. 



Zebedani, Jedideh near Damascus, Brummana, April and 

 May, common. At Khan Sufiiu, in mid June, and 6000 feet, 

 common. I found the larva of a Thais of some sort, 

 nearly full fed, feeding on the aristolochia in great 

 numbers. It sheltered between two leaves, which it spun 

 together during the hottest sunshine. I tried to rear some, 

 but entirely failed in getting any to go into chrysalis before 

 I left Syria. (Seems widely distributed in Syria, both on 

 the coast, where it is found in April, and at Damascus, and 

 in the Anti-Lebanon, where Mrs. Nicholl took it in May. I 

 have also specimens from North Syria, Aintab and Malatia, 

 which are catalogued by Staudinger as var. dcyrollei, Ob., 

 which he distinguishes as " tricaudata." None of these, 

 however, are more strikingly tricaudate than my specimens 

 from the Balkans, which are typical cerisyi, or than those 

 from Broussa and Greece. I therefore am inclined to look 

 upon the name of Deyrollei as useless. — H. J. E.) 



7. 67. rhamni, var. farinosa. 



Common among the foothills on the eastern side of 

 Lebanon, and in the valleys of Hermon. I also took it at 

 Afka, on the west side of Lebanon, flying with G. cleopatra, 

 var. antonia. (This species seems constantly distinct from 

 rhamni, though not easy to distinguish, except by the 

 scales of the fore-wings, which, according to Petens, Berlin 

 Ent. Society, 1885, p. 165, are distinct in the two sexes. 

 Cf. Stgr. in Hor. Ent. Ross., xiv., 1899, p. 50 (in separata). 

 I have specimens from Greece, Asia Minor, and Turkestan, 

 which agree with one from Hermon in the male being of 

 a paler colour, especially on the underside, than rhamni. 

 Both species occur in Greece, and at Amasia, vide 

 Staudinger. — H. J. E.) 



8. G. cleopatra, var. laarica (Stgr.), antonia, Butl. Ann. 

 Mag., 1885, p. 408. 



Common in the western valleys of Lebanon. (Speci- 

 mens from Beyrout and Damascus and Galilee belong to 

 this form, and agree with males from the Taurus in 

 having the fore-wing of the male paler than in typical 

 cleopatra. My nine specimens, however, do not average 

 larger than the type, as Stgr. says, and I cannot 



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