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there is a limestone range. The flora is a most interesting one, 
including many species familiar in the garden at home, especially 
of the Campanula group, whilst the great stretches of Spirea 
aruncus in the forest glades are among the finest natural floral 
effects I have seen. The cold climate and abundant rainfall is 
accountable no doubt for the rather scanty insect fauna, as 
compared with other parts of Hungary; and the specimens, 
though many of them are very interesting, have a tendency to 
run to obscurely marked forms and small size. I speak of the sub- 
alpine species, for it was only amongst these that I was able to 
make any observations. 
I arrived at the Palace Hotel, Tatra Lomnitz, about 7 a.m. 
on the 3rd July, after travelling all night from Budapest; the 
rain which had descended continuously for thirty-six hours was 
still in evidence, and after selecting a room and having a con- 
versation with the manager, during which he imparted to me 
the cheerful intelligence that it had rained off and on for the last 
three weeks, 1 decided to get some sleep. Awaking about noon 
I was delighted to see that the sun was shining, and after 
partaking of lunch sallied forth. I may mention here that the 
eround immediately around the Palace Hotel, ‘‘ Nagy Szal- 
loda,”’ in Magyar, especially on the side nearest Tatra Fured, 
is the best I could find in the Tatra. Leaving the hotel I bore 
to the left, and found myself in a grassy ride running through 
the spruce forest, with seats at intervals, and plenty of flowers; 
here butterflies were quite abundant, the first one netted being 
Erebia medusa var. hippomedusa, perhaps the most abundant 
species met with in the Tatra, and occurring everywhere I 
collected. . ligea var. adyte was not infrequent, and equally 
widely spread; a dark form of Cenonympha iphis, with the 
ocelli on the under side strongly developed, flitted here and there ; 
and around a swampy spot covered with rough tussocky grass I 
saw a Cenonympha of slightly different flight and somewhat 
browner tint; netting this I was delighted to find I had run to 
earth a butterfly taken by but few Britishers—C. hero; this 
species, which had evidently been out some time, was widely 
spread on the granite, wherever swamps covered with the rush- 
like grass were to be found. A flight familiar, but not seen for 
years, was that of Carterocephalus palemon, of which I came across 
a few specimens each day. I was surprised also to meet with Chry- 
sophanus hippothoé, type, and with no approach to the mountain 
form var. eurybia; the females had a fair amount of copper on 
the upper side, and the males well marked dark margins to the 
wings, and in one or two of them the inferiors are more strongly 
shot with purple than any specimens I have seen. Perhaps the 
most interesting species I took in the Tatra was a Melitea 
with the upper side as dark as M. dictynna, but which has an 
under side very suggestive of M. aurelia, which the Rev. G. 
ENTOM.—DECEMBER, 1909. JEG 
