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centuries vainly tried to subdue the Montenegrins. While 

 taking a photograph of this glorious scene, perhaps the finest 

 view I have ever looked upon, Limenitis Camilla, fresh as paint, 

 settled on the rock beside me, and before I could put down the 

 camera and take up the net it had sailed away over the trees to 

 my right. This little woodland fairy proved a good guide, for on 

 trying to follow it I struck a narrow path which led me into a 

 tiny meadow, probably little more than an acre in extent, which 

 proved to be one of the best butterfly corners I discovered in 

 Montenegro. I remained there catching lepidoptera until it was 

 time to hurry back to Cettijne for lunch. Often a sweep of the 

 net yielded four or five different species. Here I made my first 

 acquaintance with Hesperia sidce, one of the most striking insects 

 of its group. H. orbifer, too, was there, with Spttothyrus lavaterce, 

 and beautifully bright specimens of II. sylranus, which glistened 

 in the sunshine like " coppers." There was also a black and 

 white skipper which I hesitate to name. Of " blues" there were 

 Nomiades cyllarus, Cupido minima, a fine large and bright form 

 of Plebeius argus, L., Polyommatus icarus, Cyaniris semiarfjus, 

 and Lyccena orion. Thais polyxena, a poor, battered object, was 

 fluttering over the grass, and among the bushes Cosnonympha 

 arcania was found. On the previous day I had taken an 

 interesting form of C. tiphon which puzzled me, and now I caught 

 seven more specimens. It turned out to be the variety rhodo- 

 pensis of Elwes, and resembles somewhat our northern form, the 

 scotica of Staudinger, but is of a much lighter and brighter tint 

 than the Scotch insect. There are no ocelli on the upper side, 

 but in some of my specimens the apical spots of the under side 

 show through. Dr. Seitz states that the hind wing of this form 

 on the under side mostly exhibits a complete row of ocelli ; but 

 my Montenegrin specimens, and also a few I took at Jablanica, 

 in the Herzegovina, are very variable in this respect. Some of 

 my females have the full complement of six ocelli, which are 

 almost as conspicuous as in the typical tiphon of Von Rottenburg, 

 which I take to correspond to the British middle form, as described 

 by Buckle in his well-known article on this species.* In the 

 majority of my specimens, however, the ocelli are but feebly 

 developed, and I secured at Cettijne one male of the form which 

 Rebel has described from Bosnia and Herzegovina under the 

 name of occupata, in which the spots are entirely obsolescent. 

 There is considerable sexual variation in colour, the males being 

 darker than the females, the veins and costal and outer margins 

 conspicuously so, and in one specimen the hind wings are so 

 much darkened that at the first glance I took it to be G. iphis. 

 The under side, too, is much brighter than typical tiphon ; the 

 fore wings, except for their ashy-grey apices and margins, being 

 generally unicolorous. Mr. Elwes in his description of the 

 * The 'Entomologist's Record,' vii, p. 100. 



