274 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
from its true locality, but a long and wide search for further 
specimens was fruitless. 
P. bellarguws.—Only seen at Ialta; the males which were just 
coming out were large examples of ab. punecta. 
P. amandus var. lydia.—This form of P. amandus was not 
uncommon on bushy slopes, both at the ‘‘ Tschapurnik Wald” and 
in the valleys in the direction of Tsaritsyn. The first specimens were 
seen on May 23rd, and the species continued in good condition for 
about a month, after which it became worn. 
Cupido sebrus.—A short series was taken at an altitude of about 
1000 ft. at Ialta, where the species frequented flowery clearings in 
the pine-covered slopes of the mountains. The males are of a 
deeper and purer blue than the type; the females are remarkable in 
that nearly the whole of the superiors and the bases of the inferiors 
are suffused with grey-blue scales. I propose for this form the name 
of ab. caerulea-grisea n. ab. 
Glaucopsyche celestina.—This HKastern species had evidently been 
common a short time previous to our arrival at Sarepta; but the 
examples we took were almost all worn to shreds, and it took my 
best efforts to obtain half-a-dozen fair specimens, which were picked 
up singly wherever there was a considerable growth of leguminous 
plants. 
(To be continued.) 
A FORTNIGHT IN SHETLAND. 
By Percy C. Ret. 
At 9 am. on July 14th, my friends Messrs. J. Peed and 
G. D. Hancock and myself left Aberdeen on the s.s. ‘St. Sunniva,’ 
bound for Baltasound in the Island of Unst. After a calm 
passage we found ourselves when we awoke next morning at 
Lerwick, where we changed on to the s.s. ‘Zetland,’ and reached 
Baltasound that night at 10 p.m., some three hours behind time, 
owing to fog. We had engaged rooms at the Queen’s Hotel, 
which lies about a mile from the landing stage, so that it was 
not far from midnight before we had had some supper and were 
settled in. The next day was spent in surveying the country 
and deciding on our plans. 
The Island of Unst lies practically due north and south, and 
is some twelve miles long by about five miles wide, with Balta- 
sound at the head of a deep inlet just about halfway up the east 
coast. The island is composed of round-topped hills, covered 
with grass and short heather, with the highest hills, Saxaford 
and Hermaness, at the northern end, and is traversed longi- 
tudinally by a deep depression, which from the latitude of Balta- 
sound is occupied northwards, first by Loch of Cliffe, a fresh- 
water loch, and then, separated from it only by a sand bar, by a 
sea loch called Burrafirth. 
