"274 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



from its true locality, but a long and wide search for further 

 specimens was fruitless. 



/'. bellargus. — Only seen at lalta ; the males which were just 

 coming out were large examples of ab. ijuncta. 



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 schrus. — A short series was taken at an altitude of about 

 1000 ft. at lalta, 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. 



Glaucopsyclw ccelestina. — This Eastern 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. Reid. 



At 9 a.m. 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 bad 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. 



