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on one day, and disappeared almost completely ; Vanessa cardui 

 was very common ; also V. io, V. atalanta, &c. 



I have not met with any exceptional good fortune in the way 

 of varieties during the season, but during early July I renewed 

 my acquaintance with the confluent form of Zygcena trifolii at 

 Freshwater, and obtained very fine extreme forms. With the 

 erratic species Z . filipendidce I had better success, meeting with 

 a small but numerous colony about Aug. 2nd in South Devon. I 

 worked it steadily for over a month, and obtained five of the 

 yellow variety, three of which, in fine condition, showed a very 

 rich colour, contrasting beautifully with the metallic green, and 

 altogether a handsomer variety than I had obtained some years 

 before in the Isle of Wight. 



After my return to London, on Sept. 14th, I crossed to 

 Guernsey for a short business visit, during which I found Sphinx 

 convolvidi in great abundance, six or eight being seen together at 

 one small bed of Nicotiana affinis. Although quite without 

 apparatus, I could not resist the temptation of catching a few, 

 thus finishing my active season's collecting. 



TWO SEASONS AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES OF 

 HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA. 



By Margaret E. Fountaine, F.E.S. 



Having spent the greater part of two successive summers 

 in one or other of these two countries, I think perhaps a few 

 remarks on the principal Rhopalocera belonging to them would 

 not be otherwise than useful and interesting to the readers 

 of the ' Entomologist.' Last year I was in Austria during the 

 first three weeks in May, making Vienna my head-quarters, as 

 Dr. Staudinger had recommended that neighbourhood to me 

 before any other. Here I was fortunate in making the acquaint- 

 ance of Baron Adolf Von Kalchberg, of Hietzing, who most 

 kindly wrote out a paper for me, giving the localities for all 

 butterflies of any importance to be taken in that neighbourhood. 

 However, the spring of last year was so cold and wet, that I did 

 very little collecting till I returned to Vienna at the end of June, 

 leaving again on July 12th for Herkulesbad, a charming Hun- 

 garian watering-place in the Mehadia district, where I found 

 several very interesting species ; but being too late to secure 

 fresh specimens of all I saw, on Aug. 7th I left, resolving to 

 return this year, and went back to Vienna, in which vicinity I 

 remained more or less till the end of the month. This summer 

 I visited Hungary only, arriving at Buda-Pest in the end of May. 

 Here I became acquainted with a number of Hungarian entomo- 



