196 Mr. H. J. Elwes 07i the 



56. Ncj^tis lucilla, F. 



Also taken at Kosteuetz, but not common. 



57. Vanessa c-alhum, L. 



Common near Kostenetz at 4000 — 5000 feet. 



58. V. 'pohjchloros, L. 



A single specimen near Sofia. 



59. V. urtic/B, L. 



The only Vanessa seen in the mountains from 5000 — 

 7000 feet. 



60. V. cardui. 



Not abundant at the foot of the mountains. 



61. V. atahdita, L. 



Seen at Eilo and at the foot of the mountains. 



62. Mditfea cyiitliia, Hub. 



Though this had previously been taken by Haberhauer 

 twenty years ago, most likely in the same place wliere we 

 found it, no published notice of its occurrence except in 

 the Alps is known to me. At our camp on the pass be- 

 tween Samokov and Rilo Monastir, where we had almost 

 the only fine days Ave experienced, a good series of both 

 sexes was procured. Tiie insect flies on steep slopes 

 covered with long grass and juniper bushes at from 7000 

 — 8000 feet, and was in perfect condition during the 

 first week in July. It flies rather rapidly and settles with 

 its wings spread on the grass and juuipers. Some larvse 

 were found on a coarse grass which must be its food plant, 

 as the insects were never far from the places where this 

 grass grew most luxuriantly. I see no difference in either 

 sex between the Rilo and Alpine specimens, except that 

 the fulvous band on both wings in the male above is more 

 developed in Bulgaria, but I do not know that I could 

 separate them if without labels. 



63. M. aurima, Rott. 



Common at 5000 — 6000 feet in meadows. I do not see 

 how it can be distinguislied from the typical form, though 

 according to Staudinger it should be the YdiX. provincialis. 



