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On Oct. 10th I went by rail with a shooting party to a place 

 called Kavasuli, about thirty miles from Salonica, and was sur- 

 prised to see some worn specimens of Argynnis pandora still on 

 the wing. I believe there must be two broods of this species 

 during the summer, for I remember meeting with it as late or 

 later than this some years ago at Chanak, at the mouth of the 

 Dardanelles. 



We left Salonica on Oct. 23rd, and arrived at Salamis Bay on 

 26th. The hills to the north of this bay are clothed with pines, 

 with an undergrowth of sage, sun-cistus, heath, and a variety of 

 aromatic shrubs. Walking was extremely difficult, as the ground 

 was covered with large blocks of volcanic stone with nasty jagged 

 edges. From Salamis I made several excursions to Athens, 

 Eleusis, &c, and noticed larvae of P. cardai plentiful in the 

 Acropolis, crawling over fallen marble blocks ; and in a shady 

 corner I took a beautiful fresh Plusia dtalcytes sitting on a 

 mallow-leaf, having just emerged from its cocoon, which was 

 spun up beneath. 



We left Salamis Bay on Nov. 13th, and reached Poros at 

 2 p.m. the same day. Poros is a small island just off the main- 

 land, with which it forms almost a land-locked harbour. There 

 is a small town and naval yard. The country is very bold and 

 mountainous, and the slopes of the hills and ravines are clothed 

 with scrub composed of wild olive, arbutus, ilex, " wait-a-bit " 

 thorns, sun-cistus, plane trees, &c. At one end of the harbour 

 there is an extensive plain with marshy patches here and there. 

 It looks a nice country for collecting in, and no doubt a number 

 of good insects might be found here in the spring and early 

 summer. During our stay I noticed P. rapes and P. brassicce 

 very abundant ; C. edusa — a small form — plentiful, with several 

 var. helice ; Ccenoiiymplia pamphilus, Pararge egeria var. egerides 

 — the English form ; and the larvae of Mecyna polygonalis plenti- 

 ful upon Cassia. The following is a description of it : — Head 

 shining black, mouth pale yellow ; a broad greyish blue dorsal 

 stripe followed by a broad shining black stripe, and then a broad 

 yellow stripe, which includes the spiracles ; under parts greenish 

 brown ; upon each segment there are three or four small shining 

 black warts, each of which emits a fine whitish bristle ; legs 

 black. In confinement, when full-grown, the larvae spun tough 

 cocoons of fine white silk among the leaves of their food-plant, 

 in which they changed to rather elongated reddish brown pupae. 

 They are handsome larvae, and are easily seen, as they are 

 gregarious and feed quite exposed upon their food-plant. The 

 first moth appeared on Dec. 5th, the second on Jan. 14th, and 

 the remainder between the latter date and March 9th — a nice 

 little series. 



We left Poros on Nov. 22nd, and after stopping for a day at 

 Argostoli, in the island of Cephalonia, proceeded to Malta, where 



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