282 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



logists, from whom I received the greatest kindness and assist- 

 ance. They invited me to attend their meeting every Friday 

 evening (of which Dr. Uhryk Nandor was the president), where 

 they discussed entomology in all its various branches ; also 

 arranged expeditions for the ensuing week, in most of which I 

 accompanied them, till about the middle of June, when I again 

 found myself at Herkulesbad till the end of July, when I returned 

 to Buda-Pest till the middle of August, stopping a few days at 

 Kavaran-Szakul on my way back, a village passed on the line 

 south of Temesvar. I will now proceed to describe the results of 

 my collecting. 



Papilio podalirius var. zanclmis, Z.— This variety is taken at Buda- 

 Pest in August, but the specimens I saw had not the abdomen so 

 entirely white as those of Sicily. 



Thais polyxena, S.V. — Occurs commonly round Buda-Pest, but I 

 was too late for it ; however, I secured a good number of larva? from 

 Adlersberg in June, feeding on A risto lochia, of which, out of about two 

 dozen, eighteen pupated, and are now in my possession. 



Painassius mnemosyne, L. — Common, but rather worn, on June 5th, 

 in the forest of Szaar, about seventy kilometres from Buda-Pest. 



Pieris napi var. Jiavescens, Stgr. — This is an exceedingly interesting 

 variety, occurring, as far as I could make out, only at Modling, near 

 Vienna. — The spring brood was nothing but a rather pale edition of 

 var. bryonies, 0., but in July I took some very remarkable female speci- 

 mens, in which the ground colour was more or less of a rich ochre tint 

 throughout, with the black markings much exaggerated (and very 

 black, not dusky as in biyonia), but I took one specimen in which these 

 markings were the same as in the type, though the ochre tint was 

 especially brilliant. The males were all typical. 



Colias chrysotheme, Esp. — I made an expedition to Modling with 

 the Baron von Kalchberg in May last year, hoping to secure this 

 species, but we did not see one. He informed me that it was always 

 much scarcer in the spring brood, and the specimens were smaller and 

 paler. At the end of August I found it common enough in the same 

 locality. It also appears in the neighbourhood of Buda-Pest, larger 

 and finer than the Austrian form, but I was unfortunate in not obtain- 

 ing one specimen, though Herr Aigner caught three or four on 

 Aug. 7th, in the Kammerwald, one female of which was very large and 

 strongly marked. 



C. myrmidone, Esp. — This most charming butterfly occurs in 

 various localities near Buda-Pest. Unlike C. chrysotheme, the speci- 

 mens of the first brood seemed to be the largest and brightest, but the 

 second brood was more abundant. I took it at Csepel-Sziget, Hideg 

 Volgy, and Farkas Volgy. It was a curious fact that in Mehadia I 

 I saw no Colias except the two common ones, hyale and edusa. 



Thecla betuhe, L., T. spini, Schiff., T. w-album, Kn., T. acacia,, F., 

 T. quercus, L. (also var. bell us, Gerh., but rarely) and T. rubi, L. — All 

 occur in the mountains above Ofen, the local name for Buda. 



Polyommatus virgaurea, L. — A remarkably fine form occurred in 

 the Wasserwald, bei Mehadia, in June. 



