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unexceptionable that we were allowed to go on, and met with the 

 utmost courtesy and kindness from all the officials, both military and 

 civil, during our whole excursion. 



On the 16th we rode out of Focha on a lovely summer's morning 

 along the good bridle path leading to the military frontier post of 

 Celebic, about six hours' easy going through an excellent butterfly 

 country, forests alternating with mountain meadows, brilliant with 

 flowers and swarming with insects. I took Panmssiiis ajuillo, Ajiatura 

 ilia, Liiiwnitis populi, ^'ancssa io, Melitaca maturna, M. partlwuii' var. 

 varia, Broitltis amatliusia, B. ino, Clirysoj)/ia)niii riruaiircae, C. Jri/ijio- 

 thoe, Polj/diiniiatus aiiiamlus, Li/caena crrw.s, L. miieoiier, L. arion, P. 

 corydon, P. belhm/iis, Cnenonyiupha iphis, and many more common things, 

 but the great prize of the day was P. anteros, a poor specimen, but quite 

 unmistakable. It had never before been taken in Bosnia, and this is 

 probably its western limit. It may very likely be abundant here 

 earlier in the season, as it is a June butterfly (in Bulgaria). I pre- 

 sented my specimen to the museum at Serajevo. Celebic is finely 

 situated on the top of a commanding height about 4000ft. above the 

 sea, and is occupied by a company of Austrian infantry^a frontier 

 guard. There is a good Fremdenzimmer kept by Government for 

 travellers, and I was comfortably lodged and dined at mess ! Next 

 day we went on to the frontier gendarmerie post of Mestrovac, a 

 most beautiful walk of three and a half hours along the edge of the 

 tremendous Tara Gorge, which here forms the boundary between 

 Austria and Montenegro, but it poured with rain, and we were glad 

 to get into shelter at the little barrack. It rained all night and all the 

 next morning, but the afternoon cleared a little, so Curcic and I 

 started up the Radovina, a great grassy mountain about 5800ft. high, 

 which rose immediately behind the gendarmerie, with the lower slopes 

 well clothed with forest. The Erebias flew notwithstanding the grey 

 weather, and I got a great many Erehia oeme, rather small and red in 

 colour, also Erehia tyndarns var. bofiuiaca, and E. ciiryale. Curcic saw 

 a wolf quite near ; with my usual bad luck, I was catching butterflies 

 just on the other side of the hill. 



The next day was very fine, and we started very early, escorted by 

 a patrol of gendarmes, to ascend Ljubnica, a conspicuous mountain 

 about 7000ft. high, on which is the boundary stone between Turkey 

 and Austria. We first climbed up very steep forests, mostly of pine, 

 and then came out into beautiful meadows, where the mowers were 

 just setting to work on the hay. Erehia nwdiisa and P.'. oeme were very 

 common, Brentlnn pales swarmed, and Curcic caught one E. epiphron 

 (cassiope), which is a rare butterfly all through this country. Following 

 a nice stream to its source, in the western flank of Ljubnica, we found 

 two empty huts, sheltered by great fir-trees, overlooking a rich meadow 

 which sloped down to the water. Here we resolved to encamp, so 

 leaving the men and the baggage, Curcic and I and the guard went up 

 to the summit of the mountain, about an hour above the huts. The 

 view was splendid, and the day very tine, but entomologically it was 

 a poor mountain ; butterflies were very few and far between on and 

 around the summit, though lower down E. meduaa and the Coeno- 

 nympha, which I had taken on Prenj [C. syttiphita\ar. typhonides), were 

 common. Returning to camp, I spent the afternoon in the adjacent 

 meadows, and got a great many nice insects, but nothing new excepting 



