142 THE entomologist's record. 



club, we arrived at the Alp hut, solidly built of planks, and beautifully 

 situated 4000ft. above the sea, with a grand mountain view to the 

 west and south, and the comfortable shelter of a beech wood to the 

 north and east. Dr. Penthner, the accomplished author of the index 

 to Rtaudinger and Rebel's Lepidopteroi Catalog, went up to the hut 

 with us ; he intended to estalilish himself there for a month at least, 

 and collect at leisure. 



July 8th was brilliantly fine, and I went up the Glogovo Prenj, a 

 great limestone ridge over 6000ft. high, ahout an hour and a half of 

 steep ascent immediately behind the but. In the rough grass of the 

 hollows, at an elevation of not less than 4500ft., and not more than 

 6500ft., I found many Coenonymphas flying, which I believe to be the 

 same as those which Mr. Elwesand I had taken in the Rilo (Bulgaria) 

 two years ago. These were consideied very interesting by Staudinger, 

 and were named by him Coenonywjilia .^i/iiiphita xnv. ti/])Iiovi<les, being the 

 wtstern foini of an Asiatic species {ride Cataloij, new ed.). This insect, 

 which I found on the Prenj, and also, later, on theDurmitor, is not so 

 well marked, or so decidedly a var. of C. syiii})hifa, as the Bulgarian type, 

 but Mr. Elwes and Dr. Rebel both considered it to be the same butterfly 

 in its extreme western form. At the very top of the mountains, in 

 the rocky hollows, I took a good many Hesjuria andrmneda, a butterfly 

 which had not hitherto been found in this district ; they were mostly 

 in bad order, and very hard to catch. Krehia gorye and var. erynnis 

 were flying in some numbers on one of the southern slopes of the 

 summit, but did not pervade the whole mountain, as would probably 

 have been the case in the Alps. They were in excellent condition, but 

 I unfortunately failed to get any females, they were not out yet pro- 

 bably, as I saw none. Perceiving a shoulder of the mountain con- 

 taining some nice green hollows- — an oasis in the stony wilderness — I 

 explored it, and found iJirnthia jialcs flying there, besides quantities of 

 Erebia rnediifia and 7V. oenic, the latter the fine eastern type, with a red 

 flush on the underside of the fo)ewings. I got one beautiful aberration 

 of Brenthin pales, a male, with the forewings almost entirely brown 

 on the upperside. The next day was stormy, then we had another 

 nice day, and I again went up to the Glovogo Prenj, hoping to get 

 females of E. yorye and Ik pales, but although I took a good many 

 insects, I made no important additions to my former bag. Next day 

 I returned to Serajevo, taking some butterflies on my way down the 

 mountain, of which some nice dark Melanaryia yalatea, and some 

 very good dark females of Melitaea didyiva, were the only ones in any 

 way noticeable. I then spent a day at Serajevo, arranging for an 

 excursion to the Montenegrin frontier, and we started on the 14th to 

 drive to Focha, a beautiful journey of a day and a half, halting for the 

 night at Gorazda. The road winds through a mountainous and well- 

 wooded country, where so many butterflies haunt the roadside that we 

 arrived very late at Gorazda. We took Ajiatvra iris, A. ilia, and a 

 beautiful bronzed aberratirn of A. ilia approaching clytie, Aryymns 

 adijipe and var. dcodoa-a, Ih-yas papkia in swarms, Lycatna meleayer, 

 Polyoniviatus corydon, Hetenijiteriis morpheus, &c. 



At Focha, where we left the high road, we found that the frontier 

 was just then in a very unsettled condition, as there had been a 

 Bmuggling row, about fifteen miles ofi^, and a Montenegrin smuggler 

 had killed an Austrian official. However, our credentials were bo 



