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On July 9fch I removed my quarters to Tatra Fured, which is 

 distant from Barlangliget about fifteen miles, and to get to 

 which one has to go through Tatra Lomnitz. The weather 

 during my stay at Tatra Fured was equally bad with that I had 

 experienced elsewhere in the Tatra, and not much could be 

 done. The day after my arrival, although there was some sun 

 in the morning, the signs were ominous, and I could only get a 

 few more Brenthis pales var. arsilache in the swamp where I had 

 previously found them. Then the rain commenced to descend 

 in torrents, and continued for the rest of the day. Professor 

 Schmidt had told me that there was a good locality for 

 Pa7'iiassiiis apollo var. carpathica between Tatra Fured and 

 Tatra Lomnitz, about midway between the two places and on 

 the left side of the road travelling from the former to the latter, 

 and there being glimpses of sun on the morning of July 11th I 

 made my way thither. After beating about on some foothills, 

 which approach close to the road, and rise perhaps 300 ft. 

 above it, I kicked up a pair of this magnificent form, one 

 of which I captured ; I afterwards saw some half dozen others, 

 of which two were netted. The specimens, which are all males, 

 expand 88 mm. as against 78 mm., which is the average of my 

 Swiss specimens, although they are not quite so large as my 

 largest Albarracin Sierra example, which expands 92 mm. On 

 the same ground I came across Polyommatus optilete. On 

 July 12th the weather broke up again, and the outlook was 

 so hopeless that I felt it was no use my staying longer, and 

 accordingly on the following morning I entrained for Vienna on 

 my route to England. 



At Tatra Fured I again came across luminous Coleoptera of 

 two forms, one of these was the apterous female of Phausis splen 

 didula which was abundant, sitting amongst the herbage on the 

 roadsides in the forest ; the whole of the abdomen of this sex, 

 which was white in colour, was phosphorescent, and the light 

 resembled that of our glowworm. The other form was the male 

 of the same species, which flew slowly amongst the trees in the 

 forest, the phosphorescent portion, which was only small, being 

 on the under side of the abdomen ; the light, which was much less 

 than in the female, was continuous, and as the flight was steady 

 and in a straight line it had the appearance of an electric spark 

 running along a wire. 



The species of Ehopalocera observed in the Hohe Tatra, 

 thirty-three in number, were : Parnassius apollo var. carpathica, 

 Apori cratcegi, Pieris rapce, P. napi, Euchloe cardamines, Leuco- 

 phasia sinapis, Gonepteryx rhamni, Melitaa dictynnoides, M. dic- 

 tyima, Brenthis selene, B.euphrosyne, B. pales and var. arsilache, B. 

 ino, Argynnis aglaia, Aglais urticce, Eiivanessa antiopa (hybernated), 

 Pyrameis atalanta, Polygonia c-album, Erebia medusa var. liippo- 

 medusa, E. liqea var. adyte, Enodia hyperanthus, Pararqe mara, 



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