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10th I watched I. iiodalirina laying ova on a plum tree, and took: 

 two of the eggs. I told Ebray, who went out and brought in 

 another egg. Later, knowing how to look for them, we found them 

 commonly on wild cherry. On the 12th we saw the first Lenco- 

 pJiasia sinapis, which afterwards became quite common. April 

 15th, at Sigmundskron, we saw Pararge {Lasioiniiiata) uijeria and 

 Callophrys nibi, and from the herbage disturbed Minoa eiiphorbiatd 

 and Ephyra punctaria. April 17th, Saturnia jiavonia, female, was 

 presented to us by Herr Hiitlinger. In the afternoon we went up 

 about 4,000ft. to Kohlern, where we found ourselves again in early 

 spring as there were many small white or purple crocuses growing 

 in the meadows like they do when artificially planted in our lawns. 



April 18th, we discovered CbjtuH arraatin^ wandering on the ground 

 around the table on which we were taking our tea out of doors. 

 Beetles in general were abundant. We noticed the ordinary dor 

 beetles were smaller, and of a more vivid bhie than the common 

 English species. 



April 25th, we went to Klobenstein and saw Sesia {Macrofjlosm) stelia- 

 tanini and several Tortrices. Next day a small Spilosoma mendica was 

 seen in the garden, and on the following day Parartje {Lasioiinnata) 

 )iieii(cra was seen, and we noticed that the eggs of Ocneiia diapar, which 

 we had seen some weeks previousl}' in a chink of a rock, had now 

 hatched, and the larvti? were wandering all around for food. April 28th, 

 we. saw Macaria notata and Thijatira batis, and next day I took Erias 

 chlorana off a willow. April 30tb,we met with a male Gnjlbia caiti'pe^- 

 tris, Eupithccia lenosata, and found ova of Papilio machaon on fennel, 

 besides several pupje of Aporia <:rat(f;/i, on poles bordering an orchard. 

 May 2nd, we saw the beautiful Antid'ea herberata at rest. There is 

 a large amount of barberrj' in the hedges of the neighbourhood. 

 May 3rd, we caught Arctia testiidinaria flying gaily in the early 

 afternoon. It was ni}' first acquaintance with the brightly coloured 

 tiger. Two days later we found Spilosowa fidininoaa, and, for the 

 first time alive, Madupa salicali.s. May 6th, we went to Oberbozen 

 and on the hill side saw Papilio machaon, a very large one, the first 

 we had seen, though we had already found the eggs. /. podalirius 

 was, in the spring of 1911, far commoner than F. Diachaon. On 

 the same slope we saw several small fritillaries and skipper butter- 

 flies, but as we have no specimens I will not oft'er to give them a 

 name. Zyyana pnrpuralis (I presume it was) was very common ; 

 and we saw some specimens of the gennsAscalaphiis or thereabouts. 

 May 7th, found two larvje of Libythea celtis on the Archduke's 

 walk, as I passed a nettle tree, and the next day we made a search 

 and found many of them in various stages. The smallest we traced 

 back to the empty egg shells on the underside of the leaves, but it 

 was not till last autumn that we were sure we had identified the 

 egg shells correctly. Then we saw the figures of these eggs accom- 

 panying Dr. Chapman's article in the Ent. Jiec, vol. xxiv., p. 302. 

 May the 10th, we took Heftpeiia sylraniis and Colias Ityale, and saw — 



