166 AN entomologist's visit to dalmatia in 1873. 



noble Diotli Saturnia pavoiiia, but the ravages of caterpillarg 

 were in many places obvious enough. 



Most of my captures were made by hand. We rarely 

 found any suitable spot for sweeping, and when we did, as 

 at Zara, the number of snails was so great as to make it 

 unpleasant. Nor was beating attended with much success ; 

 the ilex-oak, however, at Cattaro, harboured the pretty little 

 Phyllobius picus in abundance, besides Rhynchites obscurus, 

 Clonus ungulatus, and a few others ; and at the same place 

 a small longicorn, Deilus fitgax, was occasionally beaten 

 out of Genistas. These insects do not appear to have been 

 met with by Germar in Dalmatia. Wherever we went the 

 species of Otiorhyncus were the most numerous, but only 

 individually ; rarely did we see two on the same spot. 

 Among them were Ragusensis, planatus, perdix, and some 

 others, whose names I have not ascertained. Under stones, 

 Myriopods of southern forms were common. One of them 

 — Cermatia coleoptrata (?) — was less frequent ; it is very 

 agile, and has no hesitation in leaving in your hand, whilst 

 making its escape, any number of legs you may have 

 grasped. Species of the genera Glomeris and Lysiope- 

 talum were, on the contrary, very sluggish, just coiling 

 themselves up and patiently waiting the result — a few 

 CarahidcB, the widely-spread iZ<2r/?aZ?<5 caspius, among them ; 

 and such southern genera as Stenosis, Scauriis, Pedmus, 

 and Hopatrum, were only found occasionally, — Chrysomela 

 vernalis commonly, all under stones. Procrustes coriaceus 

 occurred once, but no Carabus, nor were any met with by 

 Germar. It is not unlikely that many species frequent the 

 Dinaric Alps in the interior, and the mountains of Monte- 

 negro, where the rare Omphreus morio is found. One plant, 

 which is rather common on waste ground — Momordica elate- 

 rium — is much frequented by a pretty ladybird, EpiJachna 



