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by the roadside, but a descent to earth proved fatal. Dryas 

 paphia, in all the pristine beauty of its recent emergence, 

 was flitting over the brambles, attracting the attention of a 

 little Bosnian boy, who with a home-made net was trying to 

 catch butterfles, while his parents were resting in the gardens. 

 I returned home later in the day with this embryo entomologist 

 who got me to name his captures for him. While I was eating 

 my trout at the restaurant the cook brought me from the kitchen 

 a specimen of Mania maura, so badly handled as to be hardly 

 recognisable, but which had, of course, to be accepted with 

 thanks, and afterwards added to the collection of my little 

 friend of the home-made net. At the foot of the hill close 

 by was a bank covered with brambles and wild flowers where 

 butterflies abounded. Here I took Thecla quercus and Aphantopiis 

 hyperanthus, the only representatives of the two species which I 

 met with in the Balkans. The brambles proved very seductive 

 to L. Camilla, which was here in good condition ; and higher up 

 the hill, in a field, I got male L. melear/er, C. alciphron, and 

 ZygcBiha carniolica. This pleasant day at Illije ended my col- 

 lecting in Bosnia, save for a short expedition on the slopes 

 of the Trebevic mountain above Sarajevo, in search of C. 

 myrmidone which, according to the books, ought to be found 

 there, and for which I twice searched in vain. 



On the whole my insect work in the Balkans was rather 

 disappointing, but in every other respect the holiday was 

 extremely successful, and proved to be one of the most inter- 

 esting and enjoyable I have ever taken. 



A MONTH'S COLLECTING IN HUNGARY. 

 By Gerard H. Gurney, F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 104.) 



On June 4th I ascended the Domogled, which is a mountain 

 east of the town, and rises to a height of about 3700 ft. It was 

 a, brilliantly fine day, with hot sun and no wind. I saw very 

 little of interest on the way up, though after passing the Weisses 

 Kreuze Wood P. napi, P. cardamines, and P. egerides* all became 

 exceedingly plentiful. Emerging from the beech forest after a 

 very hot, lengthy climb, I found insects to be fairly numerous on 

 the slopes of the peak, and if I did not get anything unusual the 

 superb view spread out all round me amply made up for the lack 

 of varieties. Looking to the south one saw a panoramic expanse 

 of Roumania stretching away into a series of low hills and 



■•'■ All of this species found here in June by me were egerides.—ll. R.-IB. 



