NOTES ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF SICILY. 9 



mountains, where, doubtless, I would have found many other 

 species, though no crchia has as yet been seen in Sicily; but as I 

 heard the hotel accommodation was exceedingly bacl, or more 

 likely none at all, and as I was alone, I fear I was not sufti- 

 ciently enterprising to attempt it, more especially as I heard it 

 was not improbable that in a year or two there might be a good 

 mountain hotel at Castelbuono. And now it but remains for me 

 to add, that throughout the two mouths I spent in Sicily I met 

 with nothing but courtesy and hospitality from all the inhabitants 

 of tbe island, rich and poor alike ; and those who fear to visit a 

 country so exceedingly interesting and intensely beautiful may 

 take my word for it that " il n'y a pas de quoi !" 



All the butterflies observed by me in Sicily were : — 



F. podaliiius, L. Fairly common everywhere ; the ground colour 

 on all tbe wings in most specimens paler and more washed out, The 

 var. zancleus, Z., in which the body iu botii sexes is white, does not 

 appear till August, so that I did not see it, except in Signer Eagusa's 

 collection. — P. machaon, L. Generally distributed, but rather less 

 common than the preceding. It is said that the viachaou of Sicily 

 belongs exclusively to the ab. sphynis, Hiib., but I did not see more 

 than a specimen here and there that seemed to me to differ in colour 

 from the typical continental form. 



A. cratcc<ji, L. Fairly common round Palermo in June. 



P. biassiae, L. Common everywhere. — P. rapa, L. An exceed- 

 ingly diminutive form of this species occurs in Sicily, with the type ; 

 I took a male specimen at Taormina in June measuring only 1-21. — 

 P. dapUdice. (Jommon everywhere. I took a female specimen at 

 Taormina with an exceedingly diminutive pink mark next the outer 

 margin of hind wings, appearing on either side, but more distinct 

 above. 



E. belia var. ausonia, Hilb. Common at Palermo, Syracuse, &c., 

 in May ; some of the specimens were very small, and some seemed to 

 me more like siwplonia, Fxi\ than ausonia. — E. cardamines var. turritis, 0. 

 At Palermo, in the middle of May, rather worn ; very much so, later, 

 at Taormina and Messina. 



C ednsa, F. Common everywhere. — Var. minor (Ragusa). An 

 exceedingly diminutive form, rather paler than the type, seemed 

 common on Monte Pellegrino, near Palermo, in May. I took a male 

 specimen measuring 1-25, at San Martino, in June. Of the var. helice, 

 Hiib., one specimen at Syracuse in May; several near Messina iu 

 June. 



G. rhamni, L. Fairly distributed. — G. deopatra, L. Common at 

 Taormina in June, but 1 only remember once seeing one at Messina ; 

 all the rest belonged to tbe preceding species, which at Taormina I 

 did not observe at all. 



2\ acacicB, F. Fairly common at Gravitelli, near Messina, in June. 



P. pJiUeas var. eleiis, F. Examples of the second brood seemed 

 generally to belong to this variety, but in the spring I could not find 

 any that were not typical. 



L. bcetica, L. Two specimens, male and female, taken near 



