40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



sunned themselves on the bramble flowers. Many bog-loving 

 plants grow here — Butterwort, the Long-leaved Sundew, Bladder- 

 wort, Housewort, Pettywhm, Cotton Grass, Spotted and Marsh 

 Orchis, Bogbean, Meadow Thistle, and the lovely Grass of 

 Parnassus. 



On August 17th I visited a locality in North- West Norfolk 

 ioY Agriades cori/don. The special locality for this species in this 

 district is a long, winding, narrow valley, the steeply rising 

 sides covered with short turf; along the top woods of beech and 

 oak stretch for a considerable distance. On the south side (only) 

 of this valley, covering a strip of ground perhaps a mile long, 

 A. corydonvfus very abundant ; both sexes w^ere in good condition, 

 but amongst a very large number examined no sign of any varia- 

 tion was observed. Piather further along a small colony of Arkia 

 astrarche was noted, but Augiadcs com))ia, which I had hoped to 

 have seen, failed to put in an appearance. 



During the last days of the month we had our usual visita- 

 tion of Vanessids in the garden, tbough all of them were scarcer 

 than usual. Pi/rame.is otalanta was perhaps the commonest, 

 but both V. io and A. urticce were only represented by some half- 

 a-dozen examples of each species. A large fresh brood of P. 

 brassiccs flooded the garden about now too. Some of the females 

 ■were very big and fine. 



This practically ended my collecting for the summer, as I 

 very soon left Norfolk for the north of Scotland. 



Keswick Hall, 

 Norwich. 



BUTTERFLIES IN MACEDONIA. 

 By Herbert Mace. 



Although the non-entomological officers and men who spent 

 two or three years in the Balkans were greatly impressed by the 

 beauty of the numerous butterflies seen there throughout the 

 summer, my own feeling, as a lifelong collector of butterflies, 

 was one of considerable disappointment with tiie number of 

 species. As a matter of fact five species which abounded in 

 individuals were entirely responsible for the display which 

 attracted the lay attention to them. These were Pt/rameis 

 caidui, Colias ediisa, Pontia dajdidice, Papilio machaun and I. 

 podaliriiis. All these species, so strikingly beautiful, were so 

 numerous all through the fine season that it was easy enough to 

 get the impression that Macedonia is a butterfly land. 



Had I been a collector of butterflies doing a little military 

 duty instead of a soldier doing a little butterfly hunting it is 

 probable I should have had a larger list of species in my note- 



