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situated at a height of nearly 3,400ft., but in that case it would have 

 been necessary to remain longer, as some of the species taken the 

 following day on the way down were only just coming out. 1 started 

 immediately after breakfast on the 15th to walk down, hoping to 

 arrive at Anversa before the diligence caught me up. There was, 

 however, so much on the wing that I only succeeded in getting just 

 beyond the little lake below Villalago (if anything so small may be 

 called a lake) and even then had only acquired a very superficial idea 

 of the entomological products of the valley. Just below Scanno, the 

 road-side was almost exclusively in possession of the Pierids, though a 

 few E. hjcaon and P. mef/aera were also to be seen; all, ho\Yever, except 

 E. lycaon were quite passes, though I succeeded In finding a few P. 

 napi good enough to keep. As one advanced to the edge of the Lago 

 di Scanno, about 3,000ft. altitude, a few other species became common, 

 particularly Fararge eijeria, CoejionyiirpJta arcania, Celastrina argiolus, 

 and Klugia spini; Euvanessa antiopa was also noticed, as well as Aglais 

 urticae, Colias editsa, and Iphiclides podalirius. I also secured a 

 beautiful 2 aberration of Pararge maera with no dark markings on 

 the disc of the forewing and one specimen of Nordi»anma acaciae was 

 taken on a bramble just at the far end of the lake. A little further 

 on, on the shaly bank as the road approaches Villalago, a few very 

 fresh Loiveia var. gordius appeared, and had I had time, I could 

 probably have found more, but it was necessary to pick up what I 

 could in passing and to hurry on to the lower ground beyond Villalago, 

 this being at an altitude, about 2,500ft.. which I was not likely to 

 have a second opportunity of examining in the Abruzzi. There is a 

 steepish descent below the village, on the precipitous sides of which 

 there is little to be seen and nothing to be caught, but on reaching 

 nearly fiat ground again I came upon the most abundant supply of 

 butterflies that I had hitherto met with in the Apennines, both sitting 

 on damp places in the road and flying over the grass and flowers at 

 the side of it. Here I took the first Cyaniris semiargus I had ever seen 

 in central Italy, and here the only Loweia dorilis I ever saw in the 

 Abruzzi ; there was nothing remarkable about the former, the latter, 

 a 3' , was very large, with a border of orange spots nearly reaching the 

 costa on both wings, and edging a series of black spots on the hindwing, 

 very yellow (for a J ) on the underside, and with the markings, both 

 orange and black, clear and decided. P. argiis (aeg<m), P. icarus, A. 

 astyarclie and other common species were also abundant, and I also 

 took a few black and white " skippers," one of which was certainly a 

 small Hesperia carthami, and another, in the light of the last 

 " Bulletin " of the Geneva Society, I can also pronounce to be H. 

 onopordi, a species which I have also taken at .Follaterre in the 

 Rhone Valley and at Aix-en-Provence. I lingered round this spot 

 too long and had hardly got a mile further, where Satyras alcyone 

 and one of the largo Argynnids (probably A. aglaia) were flying about 

 the brambles, when I saw the diligence approaching behind me, giving 

 me only time to net one not very fresh .S'. alcyone, before I had to 

 clamber up to my place beside the driver, though longing for a 

 much more exhaustive and lengthened search in this interesting 

 and, I am sure, rich locality. Of .the species not specially described 

 above, the Pierids were all large, P. napi being so strongly marked on the 

 upperside that I should have taken it to be P. manni var. rossii, had it 



