Butterflies of the Lebanon. 91 



68. Lampides bietica. 



Common in the Lebanon, 2000 — 6000 feet, April to 

 June. 



69. L. gamra. 



Not common. I took very few, and mostly bad speci- 

 mens, on the coast near Bey rout, April. 



70. L, galba, Led. ? 



(Mrs. Nicholl did not take this species. Prof. Day 

 sends a pair of what has stood for many years in my col- 

 lee tion> and is generally called galba, Led., but which, on 

 referring to Lederer's plate in Zool. Bot. Verein. Wein., 

 1855, t. i, fig. 4, is clearly not the insect figured by him. 

 He says of it " above hardly differs from lysimon" and this 

 is the case with the so-called galba also, which so nearly 

 agrees with lysimon taken by myself at Biskra in Algeria, 

 and at Ismailia in Egypt, that I cannot distinguish it. 

 On the underside, however, the figure of galba is very 

 unlike lysimon, and exactly like the type of L. phiala, 

 Gr.-Gr., from Khabadian in Bokhara, of which I also have 

 a specimen sent me from Mergab in S.-E. Armenia by 

 Dr. Stauclinger as phiala. The males of this are paler on 

 the upperside than the so-called galba, and much paler 

 than Lederer's figure. Until, however, I am able to see 

 the Lederer types, which I believe are now in the Staud- 

 inger collection, I must remain doubtful as to what to call 

 the lysimon like species which has hitherto passed for 

 galba. Lederer says that he only got eight specimens, 

 which were taken by Zach in company with Lysimon in 

 clover fields. I may add that the true lysimon of Htibner, 

 which Stgr. gives as from the south of France, Andalusia, 

 Algeria, the Canaries, Asia Minor, India, and Africa, but 

 not from Syria, is put by him in the genus lycxna, and is 

 very close to the Indian lycmna, Sangra, Moore and Indica, 

 Murray. My specimens from the Canaries and Granada 

 have the spots below much less distinct than in the Syrian 

 insect. — H. J. E.) 



71. L. trocliylus. 



Common on limestone rocks, from sea-level to 5000 feet. 

 April to June. 



