282 THE entomologist's record. 



\inderside and towards the type alcijihrnn on the upper. On the 

 followins: day, my last at Roccaraso, I went in the morning to 

 the wooded slopes below the village on the road towards Castel di Sangro. 

 Here the most conspicuous species was Nordniannia acaciae, which was 

 flitting about from flower to flower, close to the ground, and looking 

 uncommonly like a skipper in its flight, but Coenonympha arcania was 

 also abundant, and Colia>> editsa, An/i/nniti atjlaia, and Melitaea par- 

 thenie occasionally appeared. Melananjia ffalatea was more frequent, 

 and I took a single specimen of Nnnhnannia ilicis. On repairing to 

 the same spot after luncheon I saw but few X. acaciae, but A. at/laia 

 was more frequent, including ? s for the first time, I also took two or 

 three A", ilicis, and both Par ar fie ejicria and Li month Camilla put in an 

 appearance. At 5.30 I determined to go once more to the edge of the 

 cornfield over the brow of the hill, above the cemetery, where on several 

 evenings I had seen many Lyca-nids at rest, on the chance of finding 

 $ s of some of the species, and was rewarded by taking five absolutely 

 fresh 5 P. melearier, as well as $ P. eros, A. coridon, and of course 

 P. icarus and P. aegon, at rest, and a fine ? A. niobe on the wing. 

 The LycaBnids sat on the bents on the slope facing slightly east of 

 north, below the cornfield, and also in far greater numbers on the 

 cornstalks themselves. As long as the sun was out they invariably 

 faced towards it, with outspread wings and head downwards, unless 

 there was much wind, in which case not even the sun would induce 

 more than about 20 to 25 per cent, to display the upper surface, but 

 when the sun had once disappeared they sat indifferently on either side 

 of the stem, sometimes two or three on the same stem, on diflerent 

 sides of it, Avith the wings closed over the back, and in some cases with 

 the head upwards, though the proportion of these was not greater, I 

 should think, than 15 per cent. The $ /'. eros are very slightly 

 tinted with blue, and are distinctly squarer than the ^ s, they have 

 some orange on the upperside of both wings. The ? A. coridon 

 are small and pale in colour and generally without a trace of 

 blue, though I took one at Palena (unfortunately damaged) whose 

 hindwings were blue to the border ; the ? P. meleai/er are of 

 brilliant, slightly violet-blue, with dark borders, but very little dark 

 veining, a black discoidal spot, and often whitish lunules inside the 

 border of the hind wing, or even a whitish wedge-shaped streak, 

 towards the disc, such as one sometimes finds in the 2 of P. icarus. 

 It may be interesting to add that, at the same spot, and also at Palena, 

 the form of Callimorpha dominnla, in which orange is substituted for 

 crimson on the hindwing was rather common, though not eas}^ to take, 

 as they generally flew among the corn ; I obtained, however, one pair, 

 the 2 of which laid a batch of eggs, which I at once sent to England 

 to Mr. Prideaux, who is rearing the resulting larvse. With our 

 departure from Roccaraso, on July 26th, my time in the Abruzzi 

 properly speaking ended, but our next place of sojourn, Subiaco, is 

 still in the Apennines, and proved to be a localitj^ of great entomo- 

 logical interest, so that it would be foolish to allow the title of this 

 paper to interfere with my giving a somewhat detailed description of 

 the place and its entomological treasures, so far, that is, as my very 

 short experience enabled me to explore them. 



Anyone Avho may think of visiting Subiaco is hereby warned to 

 approach it from Rome, or from some place in that neighbourhood. 



