( 170 ) VIII. The IkiLLerJUes of Cyprus. By Henry J. Turner, F.E.S. Lliead March 3id, li>2U.] The late Mr. A. E. Gibbs contemplated a paper on this subject, and had frequently discussed the fauna of Cyprus with me. The acquisition of a very large luimber of Cyprian butterflies subsequent to my friend's death showed me that almost every species had special peculiarities dis-tinguishing it from the forms of the same species on the mainland of Syria and Asia Minor, and from the forms known from other parts of the Mediterranean littoral. From 1907 to 1912 Sir John A. S. Bucknill was Judge-Advocate of the Island, and although most of his leisure was devoted to the special study of Ornithology, he was able to pay a little attention to the Lepidoptera, and in the British Museum cabinets will be found the insects which he then collected. In 1912 he was moved to Hong-kong and subsequently to the Straits Settlements, but in the year 1916 he wrote out his notes at length with the view of getting them published in the " Proc. Zool. Soc." For some reason or other the paper was not read at that Society, and by the kindness of my valued correspondent, Mr. G. F. Wilson of the Chief Secretary's Office in Cyprus, I have been able to make copious extracts from it and embody them in the present paper. In the introductory paragraphs of his MS., which deals with the Lejjidojitera as a whole, Sir John Bucknill sums up the work previously done as follows (so far as it relates to the Rhopalocera) : — -" In 1853 Julius Lederer sent a collector — one Franz Zach^ — -to Cyprus; he seems to have made Larnaca his headquarters, and to have travelled in that neighbourhood and to the centre of the Island ; I do not know how long he remained, but he appears to have been there at any rate in May. Lederer expressed himself as very dissatis-fied with Zach's mission, because 'the vicinity of Larnaca where Herr Zach, after having travelled four weeks, arrived was found bare ; water very scarce and the soil TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1920, — PARTS I, II. (j ULY)
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