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the way was long and there was no time to unfurl the nets. 

 At Banjaluka, after a most interesting day spent in the market 

 with the cameras, taking snapshots of the natives attired in 

 striking and brightly coloured garments, Mr. Barraud and I 

 parted company, my friend starting on his long homeward 

 journey to England, while» I returned for another day among 

 the lepidoptera at beautiful Jajce. I decided next morning 

 to work the wooded hill, on the lower slopes of which the 

 old Christian village is built, and which had an inviting look 

 from the terrace of the hotel. So, crossing the bridge, I 

 ascended the steep pathway between the houses and gardens. 

 In a damp place in a maize field I found L. areas flying with 

 A. phoebe, the latter in such shabby raiment as not to be worth 

 catching. Higher up, in an uncut meadow, I got several dark 

 M. galatea, but as a number of men were at work close by I 

 thought it best to keep out of the standing grass. Then 

 following a narrow track through a cornfield I hit upon some 

 more meadows and grassy places among the woods, where C. 

 edusa, A. aglaia, A. adippe, E.janira, and the common Melitaeas 

 and " blues " abounded. 



On July 5th at Travnik, a curious old town, I spent the best 

 hours of the morning photographing the interesting scenes in 

 the market, held round a painted mosque, which made an artistic 

 background for my pictures. Then I went for a walk along the 

 valley in search of insects, and got several nice male specimens 

 of Lyccena meleager and watched an Apaturid, which I think was 

 A. ilia flying round a willow tree, while M. galatea sported with 

 C. edusa on the railway bank. But, as was so often the case, 

 the bright morning was succeeded by a cloudy afternoon, and 

 although I continued to work, this time on the north side of the 

 town and in likely situations, nothing extraordinary was found. 

 Travnik has every appearance of being a good butterfly place, 

 and given a favourable season, the slopes of Mount Vlassic, 

 which rises above the town, would doubtless be worth working. 

 The insects I took at Travnik included C. hyale, L. sinapis, a 

 dark form of P. orion, B. dia, and A. phoebe. 



On July 6th I found myself in Illije, a fashionable bathing 

 station a few miles from Sarajevo. Half an hour's walk from 

 the hotels, through a shady avenue which appeared to be endless 

 and where, of course, there was no work for the net, brought 

 me to the source of the river Bosna, which rises in the pretty 

 grounds of a restaurant at the foot of the mountains. In the 

 meadows by the side of the ponds a single specimen of 

 Erebia ligea, with the white markings of the under side strongly 

 developed, was found in company with E. cethiops, which was 

 fairly abundant, A. phoebe, M. var. mehadensis, M. dictynna, 

 M. didyma, and P. argus. A beautiful male A. iris, the only 

 Apaturid actually taken in Bosnia, was wheeling round the trees 



