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of the first and the whole of the second segment, and sometimes the 

 third, red ; the wings hyahne, the stigma and nervures black. Female. 

 Long. 6-7 mm. 



Hah. Bombay (G. A. J. Eothney). 



Antennfe black, the flagellum with a faint brownish tint ; bare, 

 the scape covered with white hair. Front and vertex strongly and 

 closely punctured ; the front, the sides of the face, and of the clypeus 

 thickly covered with white pubescence ; the central parts and the 

 vertex much more sparsely covered with similar pubescence. Mandibles 

 black, rufous near the apex; the base punctured, and covered with 

 white pubescence ; the middle above hollowed. Mesonotum and scu- 

 tellum closely rugosely punctured, and covered with white pubescence, 

 which is thicker and more fulvous in tint round the eyes ; the post- 

 scutellum is thickly covered with white longish pubescence. The base 

 of the median segment is stoutly longitudinally striated ; its apical 

 slope laterally is covered thickly with white pubescence. Pleurae 

 thickly covered with white pubescence. Legs black, thickly covered 

 with white pubescence ; the calcaria testaceous. Abdomen closely and 

 distinctly punctured ; the punctuation on the basal two segments is 

 stronger and more widely separated than it is on the others. 



BUTTEKFLY COLLECTING IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY IN 1900. 

 By Henry C. Lang, M.D., F.E.S. 



The following notes are a record of butterfly collecting in 

 Austria and Hungary during one month of the summer of 1900, 

 from June 21st to July 21st. The dates and localities were as 

 follows :— Salzburg, June 21st to 28th ; Berchtesgaden, June 

 26th to 28th ; Modling, near Vienna, June 29th to July 2nd ; 

 Buda Pesth, July 3rd to 9th ; Herculesbad, July 12th to 20tb ; 

 Orsowa, July 20th. 



At Salzburg there were very few butterflies on the low ground ; 

 almost everything was collected on the wooded hills a few miles 

 east of the town. 



At Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria, but a few miles from Salzburg, 

 there is a fine opportunity for mountain collecting, but unfortu- 

 nately the weather was dull or rainy, with the exception of one 

 day— June 27th— when I collected in the woods above the village. 



At Modling, near Vienna, the weather was fine, but some of 

 the best species found there were not yet on the wing (one Neptis 

 liicilla was taken). 



At Buda Pesth we had very unfavourable weather ; the days 

 were mostly showery, and at times windy and cold. Collecting 

 was mostly on the Schwabenberg, a mountain reached by rack- 

 and-pinion railway from the town. It is an interesting locality, 

 covered with woods of oak and beech, and with open grassy 



slopes. 



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