228 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The wild flowers in the neighbourhood were numerous and in 

 great variety : Cypripedium calceolus was plentiful ; another 

 Cypripedium, whose specific name I do not know, was less 

 common. 



Pisa, May 24. — Scopula ferrugalis. 



Rome, May 27 to June 8, June 18 to 21. — Papilio 

 Machaon, Gonepteryx Rhamni, G. Cleopatra, Colias Edusa, 

 Pieris Daplidice, Melitsea Didyma, M. Rhodopensis, Vanessa 

 lo, V. Atalanta, Y. L-Album, Hipparchia Egeria, H. Megajra, 

 H. Janira, H. Pamphilus, Chrysophanus Flila^as, C. Ther- 

 samon, Lycsena Alexis, Hesperia sylvanus, H. linea, H. 

 Alveolus, H. Alceae, yEgeria chrysidiformis, Syntomis Phegea, 

 Eulepia grammica, Arctia villica, Pkisia Ni, Acontia Solaris, 

 A. luctuosa, Acidalia ornata, Lythria purpuraria, Crambus 

 rorellus, Pterophorus pentadactylus. H. Janira among the 

 butterflies and C. rorellus among the moths were the only 

 two species that occurred in abundance ; G. Rhamni and G. 

 Cleopatra appeared close together, and in equally fresh con- 

 dition ; V. L-Album and P. Ni frequented the neighbourhood 

 of the fountain of Egeria; A. villica was found in the groves 

 of Diana, near Albano; and S. Phegea flitted in the precincts 

 of the villa of Hadrian and in the woods of Tibur or Tivoli. 



Naples, June l\. to 17. — Papilio Machaon, Colias Edusa, 

 Melitaea Rhodopensis, Hipparchia Mega^ra, H. Pilosella^, 

 Chrysophanus Phlaeas, Lycana Alexis, Zygeena Medicaginis, 

 Syntomis Phegea, Deiopeia pulchella, Callimorpha Jacobroae. 

 None of these, with the exception of H. Megaera and 

 D. pulchella, occurred in the immediate vicinity of Naples. 

 Some few C. Edusa were on Vesuvius to two-thirds of the 

 height; the rest were near the shore of Lake Avernus. 



Capri. — Gonepteryx Cleopatra, Colias Edusa, Hipparchia 

 Janira, H. Pilosella^, and Arctia villica, were on the heights 

 near the cliff's, above the intensely blue sea. 



Flore nee, June 24 to 27. — Papilio jMachaon, Colias Edusa, 

 Hipparchia Galatea, H. Megoera, liycaina Alexis, L. Argiolus, 

 Hesperia linea, H. Alceae, Heliothis pelligera, Acontia luc- 

 tuosa. Butterflies were now more numerous; C. Edusa and 

 H. Galatea appeared in abundance, and H. linea in great 

 profusion. 



Lucca, June 28, 29, July 2, 3. — Papilio Machaon, P. 

 Podalirius, Gonepteryx Rhamni, Colias Edusa, C. Uyale, 



