152 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Kor Alpe (7024 ft.) is actually best reached from Wolfsberg 

 itself. The butterflies I particularly wanted were Erebia arete 

 and E. eriphyle, with the exception of E. afer, the only two 

 members of the group whose known haunts I have not visited 

 at some time or other in my entomological rambles. I may at 

 once say that I saw no vestige of either species, and, as far 

 as arete is concerned, was somewhat comforted to hear from 

 Herr Homer, the local authority upon the Lepidoptera (Macro- 

 and Micro-) of Carinthia,* that this was not the year for arete, it 

 being, in his opinion, one of those mysterious species credited 

 with intermittent appearances. I mention this not because I am 

 convinced of its entire accuracy, but as an encouragement to 

 any collector who may be inclined to break new ground on the 

 Eastern Alps in 1913, or other " odd-number " years. 



Mr. Lemann found E. arete "widely distributed over the Sau 

 Alpe," but non-existent on the Kor Alpe ; E. eriphyle on both 

 Alps, but localized. The road leading up to the Sau from the 

 Lavantthal is well wooded, with a copious rushing stream of 

 crystal clearness, punctuated with occasional saw-mills. The 

 forest passes from alder and beech to pine, and there are plenty 

 of flowery bypaths and little meadows which, unfortunately, 

 in my anxiety to reach the top, I barely entered. On the 

 roadside (where the wild raspberries were in full fruit) Heodes 

 virgaureee males were extremely plentiful and in perfect con- 

 dition, with occasional tawny females, the antemarginal points, 

 as a rule, of clear cerulean blue, more richly coloured even than 

 my Digne beauties of 1911. I was too late for Limenitis populi, 

 but L. Camilla and L. sibylla were equally abundant, and on the 

 way up I netted several worn males of Neptis lucilla, which were 

 immediately liberated, one perfect female being taken at rest on 

 a Viburnum on the return journey. Indeed, I should say that 

 lucilla was decidedly commoner hereabouts than at Herkulesbad. 

 Males, also more or less battered, of Apatura iris were settled by 

 the roadside runnel, and I again took one fair female so intent 

 upon her " afternoon tea " that I actually pill-boxed her — a 

 record, I fancy, in the way of capture of this sex of iris. I had 

 left Wolfsberg at eight. By one o'clock I was still far from the 

 goal of my ambition, for the rain had come on, and some 

 promiscuous collecting on the lower road had held me back. 

 However, I went on directly it ceased, and presently the universal 

 Erebia ligea gave place to the first specimens of E. epiphron var. 

 cassiope, which, I need hardly say, I pounced upon, under the 

 impression that they must be E. arete at last. I was now in 

 sight of the summit ridge, and it was two o'clock, when down 

 came the rain again, and I gave up in despair, with the prospect 



* Cp. Wien ent. Zeit. 1883, p. 193, and his work on the Macro- 

 lepidoptera of Carinthia. 



