MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
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form, and the stripe adjoining the torinen is also much reduced and does not 
touch the margin. The underside of tlio liindwings is marked with similaily 
coloured stripes which are much narrower and liglitcr in colour than those of 
typical helemia. This form is either a new or a seasonal variety of E. heleinia. 
(See figure.) 
The form of charlonia has been taken in South Persia by Di'. C. L. Digsby- 
Roberts, and ^Ir. t!. E. R. Cooper of the Survey of India has also taken it from 
Turbal-i-Hindari to near Robat in Baluchistan, while his brother took it at Toba in 
Baluchistan in May, 1910. Dr. Roberts’ and ]\Ir. Cooper’s specimens were all 
taken from Febmary to IMay, 1918 and 1919. Mr. Cooper informs me that the 
form was very common round hill-tops and mounds. The form of belemia was 
taken by Dr. Roberts in Guhra,* South Persia, in May, 1918. The typical 
form occurs in South Spain, North Africa, the Canaries, Asia Minor and 
Syria. 
The Zoological fSurvey of India has two specimens of each of these forms and 
I believe Dr. Roberts and Mr. Cooper also possess examples of these butterflies. 
CEDRIC DOVER, 
Indian Museum, F.E.S. 
Calcutta, January 1922. 
We submitted the above note to Lt.-Col. H. D Peile who wrote as follows : — ■ 
“EucMce transcaspica, Stgr., seems to be the same form in Mesopotamia as in 
Persia ; and E. helemia, E., is also veiy probably the same for both these 
regions. 
Euchloe transcaspica, Stgr. 
A male of the typical transcaspica (2nd genei-ation) form, agreeing well with 
transcaspian specimens in the B. M., was taken by me on 11th April 1920, at 
Fathah, on the right bank of the Tigris on a small hill crest on the .Tebel Hamrin 
range, at about 500 ft. elevation. 
The 1st brood (Jan. -Feb.) has been named vernalis by Verity. Le Cerf records 
it from Danah Konh and says it is slightly intermediate. 
The Summer form of transcaspica, Stgr., from N. Persia and Turkestan is more 
yellow than the Spring form. 
Euchloe belemia, E. 
In Mesopotamia this varies very much in size, and in the markings of the upper 
and undersides, with the season. 
Capt. N. D. Riley has recently gone through a long series of this taken by me 
in Mesopotamia in 1919, and selected from them a series of 81 specimens wJiich are 
now' incorjxirated in the National Collection. 
The iVet season, form, (.Jan. -March) have the black markings above 
very pronounced, the. bases of both wings being black ; and on the underside 
well defined, daik green bands broader than the white bands between them. 
The Dry season form (Mar.-Apl.) has much less black above, and on the under- 
side narrow, broken up green and yellow streaks between wider w'hite portions ; 
this form being also slightly the larger. 
Five specimens indicated a partial third brood. 
Both ‘ w'ct ’ and ‘ dry ’ forms were taken in perfectly fresh condition in the 
last week of March. 
This seasonal variation is referred to more fully under this species in the article 
on “ The butterflies of Mesopotamia ” in Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, of the Society’s 
Journal. 
• This locality is knowa to most Europeans as Gotha, but Dr. Roberts informs me that the 
correct P»rsian name is Gahra. 
