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Excerpt from The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, Vol. 31: January to December, 1919 On June 10th, 1917, I took a 3' Polyommatus forums, in bad con dition, on a patch of meadow in the grounds of the Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo. I had never seen P. Teams before in Egypt, and never heard of its capture there. True, several officers who had been quartered at Marsa Matruh, about 120 miles W. Of Alexandria, have told me that Common Blues were to be seen there in early sum mer, but I have not found previous information from non-collectors to beof any value, and suspect that these Blues may have been L. Booticus. In any case the strip of steppe prolonged W. Of Alexandria along the coast to Cyrenaica is scarcely to be reckoned as Egyptian from the faunistic point of view, though it is Egyptian politically. Seitz is responsible for the statement that P. Icarus does not occur in Cyrenaica. Perhaps Dr. Verity can tell us what does occur in that faunistically and geographically little explored country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.