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No doubt many more butterflies would be obtained during 

 May and June, and an excursion to the mountain chain of San 

 Salvador, the highest point of which is 3000 feet above the sea, 

 would produce some interesting species, but I was not able to 

 undertake this. 



From Corfu we went to Valona Bay, on the coast of Albania, 

 where we remained for a couple of days, but I was unwell and 

 unable to land, for which I was sorry, as it was a wild-looking 

 place, and I should most likely have obtained some fresh species 

 there. We then went across the Adriatic to Brindisi, where 

 we arrived on Aug. 16th. The country in the neighbourhood of 

 the town is uninteresting from an entomological point of view, 

 the principal road taking you out in a straight line for miles 

 between never-ending vineyards. It was very hot while we were 

 there, and the roads were two inches deep in white glaring dust. 

 I never saw such dust in all my life. On each side of the mouth 

 of the harbour there are extensive tracts of marshy ground, dry 

 at the time of our visit, but more or less flooded, I was told, 

 during the winter months, and here Satyrus statilinus var. 

 allionia was very abundant, and in fine condition, some of the 

 females measuring 2f inches. 



The inner harbour forms into two portions, one arm extending 

 to the right, and the other to the left, as you approach the main 

 landing-place. At the head of the right arm, beyond the Ponte 

 Grande, there is rather an extensive valley, through the centre 

 of which, during the winter months, runs a small stream, but 

 the day I visited it it was quite dry. Most of this valley was 

 under cultivation — garden produce, maize, &c. — but there were 

 some rough places here and there, where numerous wild flowers, 

 especially fleabane and aster, were growing in masses. Common 

 butterflies were plentiful, and among others I took some fine 

 fresh examples of Melitcea didyma, including one or two nice 

 varieties. L. bcetica was common in a field of French beans, 

 P. podalirius and P. machaon occasionally settled on flowers of 

 wild aster, E. ida was plentiful among fleabane, but worn, several 

 each of S. alcecs, S. malvce, and H. 7iostrodamus were taken off 

 wild thyme, and E. grammica was kicked up from rushes. 



We left Brindisi on August 21st, and anchored off Ancona 

 the next day. The city is picturesquely situated on the slopes 

 of a hill between the two promontories of Monte Ciriaco and 

 Monte Mariano. There are some nice country walks beyond the 

 town, and good collecting-ground on the slopes facing the sea to 

 the northward. In the latter locality Lyccena telicanus was 

 tolerably plentiful on flowers of fleabane, and a Zygcena, angelica 

 I think, was booming about in some numbers. This, of course, 

 was a second brood. Pyrausta aurata, Scopula ferrugalis, and 

 Acidcdia rubiginata were beaten from wild peppermint. 



We arrived at Venice on Aug. 27th, but there was no collecting 



