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practically over on a mountain south of La Piana at the end of 

 that month. My efforts to obtain ova, or to discover the larva, 

 of this butterfly were unfortunately unsuccessful. 



Lyccena agon, S. V., and var. Corsica. The type, with, how- 

 ever, blue females, occurred commonly at Evisa and La Piana 

 in June. Var. Corsica was only taken by me on the very top of 

 Col de Vergio (about 5000 ft.) in July, where it was extremely 

 plentiful. 



Charaxes jasius, L.— Along the steep rocky ridges, on the 

 tops of the arbutus-clothed mountains round La Piana, all 

 through the scorchiug heat of the midsummer days, C. jasius 

 romps and gambols with his fellows ; and, indeed, much to their 

 own personal destruction do these summer idlers fight and frolic 

 in the sunshine, so that it was not until I had caught several, 

 and released as many, that I managed to secure three or four 

 magnificent specimens in absolutely perfect condition. They 

 showed no fear, these brave glorious butterflies of the south ; 

 they were angry, not frightened, when they found themselves 

 prisoners in the net, and if disqualified, and therefore released, 

 returned with just the same intrepid persistence to the very spot 

 where they had so recently escaped from such a pitiful tragedy. 



Vanessa urtica var. ichnusa, Bon. — My first capture of this 

 butterfly was on May 16th at Luri. In June at Evisa it was 

 common, and there were any amount of larvse in all stages 

 feeding on every kind of stinging-nettle. But I soon found to 

 bring them home when full-fed was (at least in my first attempt) 

 merely to breed one hundred per cent, of ichneumons ; whereas 

 afterwards a batch of tiny ones produced just as many butter- 

 flies. I also induced some females to lay, which they did very 

 readily, shortly after being placed in the sun with plenty of 

 nettles to choose from. On one occasion a female, having 

 deposited quite a large batch of eggs, began to get very lively, so 

 I removed her from that cage, where another female was busily 

 laying at the same time ; and the next day, having been well 

 surfeited with sugar and water in the meantime, I put her back 

 into the laying-cage again. She seemed very restless, and, 

 though apparently wishing to lay, wandered anxiously about for 

 some time in search of a suitable spot, till at last she found what 

 she was evidently looking for, i. e. the same batch of eggs she 

 had herself laid the day before, where she at once began laying 

 again, more or less on the top of the others. I thought this all 

 the more curious as the eggs laid by the other female were 

 entirely ignored by her, though she once had a look at them, but 

 nothing would please her but to find her own. She was subse- 

 quently released. 



Argynnis eliza, Godt. — Appeared in great profusion in the 

 Forest of Aitone, near Evisa, towards the end of June, and 

 throughout July on the Col de Vergio. 



