Soós Árpád szerk.: Rovartani Közlemények (Folia Entomologica Hungarica 9/13-24. Budapest, 1956)
close enough to its populations in Yugoslavia,whilst pi.sephirus lives in a rather close habitat, as a relict detached far from its brethren. Str.acac iae , Lye .thersamon.Ph. vi crama,and possibly Ev.decolorata , are rather abundant in our country, but found sporadically in Weetern Europe. It is yet a curious fact that some species, flying in abundent numbers elsewhere, are among the greatest rarities in Hungary. So, Lyc. Idas L« /» argyro gnomon auct./ appears very sporadically and in very small individual numbers? L . am a ndus is only slightly more frequent and also L.damon has but some few known localities, seemingly even on the decrease in the past years. Concerning their habitat», I have specially worked out the species of wet and dry blotops, and have even segregated the habitats with a chalky substrats on which calcareophilous plants grow, since these are favourite haunts of many Lycaenid species. Of the wet biotops, spécial attention should be paid to those where Sanguisorba officinalis occurs,if even in smaller patches. Their characteristioal species is M. euphemus . flying in masses in such areas. M.areas will asaooiate with it only rarely and in acme few points in the Transdanubi um. I have found theae apecies in Sanguisorba-»areaa solely, which they will not leave even Blightly. This observation allows the conclusion that the Great Burnet is - at least in Hungary - the sole foodplant ot thia species. The Hungarian aubspecies of L.diepar favours,of courae, alao wet habitata, lté populationa to be found in about 50 localities in our faunal area. Of the territories with a limy substrate, the beet explored are the several points of the Central Mountains: the hills around Buda, the neighbourhood of Szár, the Mts. Bükk. Theae areas are the habitats of a large number of Lycaenida, whllat dry placée containing no lime aaaure the thriving of but a few Lycaenid species. The phenological data of these species are summed up in a Table at the end of this paper. It shows that these photo- and termophiloua species do not like to fly in the early and late
