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coffee- brown ; the form icariiutH is not uncommon in either sex ; the 

 5 s have rarely any touch of bhie on the upperside. On July 31st, I took 

 the only Argynnid I saw in Italy, a large specimen oi An/i/nnisadippe 

 showing no tendency to the deoduxa form, the ground colour, on the 

 other hand, having a suspicion of a silvery sheen, and the silver 

 spotting being very pronounced. 



On August 6th we left our very comfortable quarters at the Hotel 

 (jiotto, which I most strongly recommend to anyone visiting Assisi. 

 The windows command an uninterrupted view of the Tiber Valley and 

 the mountains beyond, as well as the hill towns of Spello, Trevi, 

 Spoleto, Montefalco, etc., and in the other direction Perugia stands 

 out magnificently. It is a most " homey " hotel, and the landlord 

 and his sons, one or more of whom is always at home, make their 

 visitors most comfortable. Of Assisi itself and its interests, whether 

 entomological, artistic, or religious (especially if one can be there for 

 the " Perdono" at the beginning of August, when it is full of pictur- 

 •esque pilgrims from the mountains and the south), it would be 

 impossible to write too enthusiastically — one leaves it with the keenest 

 regret, and returns to it with the keenest delight. 



Our next stopping-place was Orvieto, but, as our train waited for 

 more than an hour in Perugia station, I took my net into the neigh- 

 bouring lane, turnmg to the right, and found some fourteen species of 

 butterflies, including Limenitis Camilla, I'ararye eijeria, Issoria lathonia, 

 and llaywardla telicaniis. Our first day at Orvieto was spent in visiting 

 Bolsena ; here Pyraiiieis atalanta was in some niimbers, and on the 

 way there I took amongst other things Pararge moera and Epinephele 

 tithoniis. It is a curious fact that I never found K. tithonus and F.'. 

 ida overlapping. On the hill on which Orvieto is built, I found Fl. 

 ida only, on the opposite hill going towards Bolsena F:. titliomis only ; 

 at Assisi and Florence I have only seen the former, at Siena only the 

 latter. This may be mere coincidence ; has any other entomologist 

 noticed the same, or an opposite state of things elsewhere ? The only 

 other capture of special interest at Orvieto, was a ? Fyveirs alcetai>, in 

 the neighbourhood of the painted Etruscan tombs at Settecamine. 

 On August 11th we moved on to Siena, where I had not much 

 opportunity of collecting, but on each of the three days when I did 

 some hunting in the neighbourhood of the town itself, I took F^. alcetas 

 mostly in good condition ; I'ohjuiinnatus uarti^ of the relina form fell 

 to my net on August 14th, on August 17th the only specimen I saw of 

 Culias edusa var. Jtelice, and on August 19th another specimen of 

 Fararye moera : neither this nor the Perugia specimen, one being 3" , 

 the other $ , are of the adrasta form, as one would have expected 

 them to be. On August 20th we drove to Monte Oliveto, and by 

 starting to walk back until the carriage overtook me, I succeeded in 

 takmg several species, including fresh F'ontia daplidicc and Auriades 

 coridon, and the only Sati/rus utatilinus which I saw on this occasion. 

 I also took both Epinep/wle tithonus and Fl. ida, but, as at Orvieto, on 

 different hills. 



We had intended going from Siena to San Gimignano for a week, 

 and thence for another week to Porto Ferraio in the island of Elba, 

 but after two nights of earthquake on August 24th and 25th (the 

 shocks on the former night being really very bad, and one lasting for 

 fourteen seconds, which seems interminable), the ladies decided on 



