148 THE entomologist's beoobo. 



I regret that 1 could not stay longer, as I do not consider that I hav^' 

 by any means done what there is to do in the way of collecting butter- 

 flies on this great mountain. The highest point of Durmitor is more 

 than 8000ft. high, and is surrounded by six or seven other points, but 

 very little inferior to it in height. These peaks conceal numerous 

 basins and hollows, several of which contain little lakes, clear, 

 deep and blue, rather reminding me of the Bavarian Alps. This mass 

 of mountains covers a tract of country about ten miles in length by 

 eight in width (rather more than less); its great precipices rise abruptly 

 from the flat tableland of the Brda, towering above ail the neighbour- 

 ing heights on the Bosnian frontier. The highest summit of Durmitor 

 has only once been ascended, by an Italian. There is much pasture, 

 but much grazing also ; for stony slopes and precipices it is unrivalled, 

 and great forests clothe its lower levels. It is a remarkably cold and 

 late mountain. I found Enhia melaa barely out on July 24th ; and 

 E. (joriic, which is very rare here, was also only just making its appear- 

 ance. I think that my time might have been more profitably spent, 

 entomologically, on the lower levels ; I wasted one glorious day for 

 butterflies, in the ascent of the second peak of the mountain, which is 

 moderately accessible, and commands so glorious a view, that J 

 cannot regret the loss of time, though I literally took not a single 

 butterfly, but I had the honour of being the flrst Englishwoman who 

 had ever made the ascent, and the memory of one of those days which 

 are marked with a white stone in one's calender. The other three 

 days were all more or less showery, and butterflies were not at all 

 plentiful. I give my captures, all taken at 5000 ft. or over: — 

 I'amassius apoUo, P. umenwi^yiie, Eudiloe cardamincs, Picrin rapae, P. 

 iiapi, Brenthia euphros)/ne, P. pales (plentiful), Ctipido iiiiiiiiiia, Poli/om- 

 viatiis eras (one), Ercbia viiias, E. (jon/e (two only), E. lappona (very 

 common over 6000ft.), E. tijndarus var. bosniaca (not above 4000ft. )» 

 E. oeme, E. caaaiope (two), E. euryale, L'oenonympha sijwpJdta var. 

 tiphonides (very common), C. arcania var. philea, Hesperia alvrus. 

 Two very long days' march across the Brda brought us back to the 

 Tara gorge, at another point from that at which we had crossed it 

 before ; I saw a good many butterflies in the dolinas, or hollows in 

 the iime^rtone plateaux — Anii/nnix Jiecate, Mditaim pcuthenie var. raria ("?), 

 ChrysDp/ioiuis hipputlioe, many of the commoner Lycamids, Cneno- 

 nyiiiplui iphis, Eirbia medusa, &c., besides several unmistakable t'ulias 

 wyrinidone (which I could not catch). Again we had to wait a good 

 while before we could get re-admitted into Bosnia, as the gendarmes 

 had to be fetched from their post, about an hour's walk from the ferry, 

 before the ferryman would row us over, but they arrived in about two 

 hours, and were most obliging when they did turn up, so we got once 

 more across the Tara, and reached the gendarmerie barrack by star- 

 light. This was the end of a most interesting excursion. I should 

 much like to revisit Durmitor and the Brda, and spend a month 

 there, the country was most beautiful, and the lepidoptera very little 

 known. I should recommend any future traveller to start from 

 Cettinje rather than cross the frontier. The Tara gorge, best of 

 butterfly corners, is half in Turkey and half in Montenegro, but in 

 ordinary times there would probably be no particular difficulty in 

 crossing the frontier for a day's collecting for anyone who was known 

 to the officials. The Turkish captain was remarkably civil. 



