MEG ACEPHALA. 



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Cartagena (South Spain), Andalusia, Algeria to Tripoli, Egypt, 

 Gulf of Tad jura (Obock), Sinai, Syria, Bhodes, Cyprus, Caucasus, 

 the Euphrates, Persia and Karachi. 



Yar. armeniaca, Cast. 



This is the bluish form of the species. 



The localities recorded for this variety are : — United Provinces : 

 Agra {Thomson) ; Perso-Baluch Frontier or Seistan (Seistan 

 Expedition, 1903) ; Afghan-Baluch Frontier (A fghan Boundary 

 Commission, 1896). It also occurs in Armenia, and in Transcaspia, 

 up to the Amu Daria in Seistan {Horn). 



