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that Csepel was a very good locality for P. orion, but apparently 

 it was not yet out here, as we did not see a sign of it, though, 

 curiously enough, the following day I took four or five specimens 

 on the Schwabenburg, a good thousand feet higher elevation ! 



Another visit to the Budafok marshes resulted in a dozen 

 more perfect C. thersamon, which was quite common. Some of 

 the males were very fine, with a beautiful purple suffusion on 

 the upper side of the lower wings ; but I got little else that was 

 fresh except two rather worn male Everes argiades var. pnlji- 

 sperchon, and a long series of C. iphis, which was very abundant 

 and showed considerable variation in the spotting on the under 

 side of the hind wings. 



On the Schwabenburg on the 24th I found P. mnemosi/ne 

 males common in a meadow by the station ; here also were a 

 few fresh Hesperia carthami. In the sheltered glades P. orbifer 

 was now plentiful, and a few rather small P. orion var. ornata 

 were secured. Here and there were the two "swallowtails," 

 while I. lathonia, M. phcebe, Pararge megcera, one very light- 

 coloured P. egeria, a few fresh P. rapce, which were quite 

 ordinary, and several N. cyllams and P. icarus males make up 

 the tale. 



On May 27th I left Budapest for Herkulesbad, nearly three 

 hundred miles further south. Owing to the heavy rains, large 

 floods had risen, and in consequence of a bridge over a swollen 

 river giving way, my train was detained at Temeshar a good 

 many hours, and did not arrive at Herkulesbad until late on the 

 evening of the 28th. This washing away of bridges is apparently 

 a somewhat common occurrence in Hungary ; I believe one or 

 two other entomologists have been detained at Temeshar on 

 previous occasions from the same cause. 



Herkulesbad is a most delightful place, with a very comfort- 

 able hotel. I was told the weather had been extremely wet for 

 the past fortnight, and certainly the amount of water in the 

 Czerna, and the amount of mud on the road up the gorge, looked 

 as if there had been a lot of rain. However, the first three days 

 I was there were very fine and hot, though after that the 

 weather again broke up, and I had to put up with several 

 dies non; still, on the whole, I had a very successful week, and, 

 in spite of weather, the more I saw of the place the more I 

 liked it. 



The butterfly of which I was most anxious to secure a series 

 was Neptis aceris, which is a local species, never very easy to 

 obtain. It is found, however, commonly at Herkulesbad, and I 

 had not gone very far up the Czerna gorge on the morning of 

 the 29th before I had netted my first, but it was rather a torn 

 example, and I was very glad when I took others and soon found 

 that I need only keep the best specimens, as it turned out to be 

 quite common. I saw N. aceris nowhere else except in the 



