Butter/lies of the Lebanon. 95 



87. L. ey Hants, var. ceribginosa, Stgr. 



Very common at Brummana and in the Lebanon, 

 3000 — 0000 feet, April to June. (The two specimens of 

 this brought home by Mrs. Nicholl have the hind-wings 

 below sufiused with green and blue extending almost to the 

 fringe, a character which is usual in specimens from this 

 region, though only occurring as an aberration in Europe. — 

 H. J. E.) 



88. Lycsena argiolus. 



Common, 3000 — 5000 feet, Blouden, Afka, etc. 



89. L. icarus. 



Common, Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon. (Some of the 

 specimens which I refer to this species, taken at the 

 Cedars of Lebanon by Mrs. Day, are very small, and may 

 perhaps be candalus ; others irom Beyrout are more like 

 form persica, Bienert ; others again from the higher parts 

 of the Lebanon are normal. — H. J. E.) 



90. L. zephyr us, var. 



The form with brightest orange spots on upperside of 

 hind-wings I took chietiy on chalk hills among green 

 corn at Baalbek and Blouden, end of May and first week in 

 June. I also got several, not so brilliant, at the Cedars of 

 Lebanon. But the same insect without orange spots on 

 the upper side is generally distributed on Lebanon and 

 Anti-Lebanon, from 3000 — 0000 feet. May and early 

 June. 



(Mrs. Nicholl collected a good series of this at various 

 places in the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, which are like 

 nothing in my collection, though they come nearest to 

 three specimens which were in the Gram collection from 

 Mesopotamia, and which were sent him by Staudinger as 

 zephyr as. I sent three males (from Lebanon) to Staudinger 

 just before his death which were returned to me by Mr. 

 Banghaas, labelled in one case " Zephyrus," and in the other 

 " Zephyrus certain." I have a good series of all the forms 

 of zephyrus from the Alps, Spain, and various parts of 

 Central Asia and Asia Minor, and have taken it myself 

 in Greece and Bulgaria. All the males except the three 

 from Mesopotamia above mentioned are distinguished by 

 well-marked marginal black spots on the hind-wing above, 

 which is not been on the Syrian insect, whilst not one 



