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clouds began to drift across the sun. In vain we waited ; the 

 weather got worse, and at last the rain came down in torrents and 

 drove us to shelter in the neighbouring village. 



We then resolved to start next day for some of the higher forest 

 districts of north Bosnia — Travnik and Jajce — in hopes of finding 

 X. ari'iis in better order, but we never pitched upon the species again, 

 and it remains among "butterflies wanted" for the collection. 

 Leaving the Save valley, Ave next visited Travnik, an interesting little 

 town, wedged up against the bare limestone precipices of the Vlasic 

 Planina, 6,000ft. high. It is a very hot place, and the lower hills to 

 the south of the town being of some kind of sandstone formation, 

 well wooded, and rather boggy, it should be a good place for butter- 

 flies. Apatnra ilia var. cliitie is very abundant in the town itself ; we 

 took several good specimens in the streets. On June 22nd we went 

 up a very steep dry gully in the clifi's close to the town, and found 

 Ncjitis liicilla plentiful in the brushwood that clothed the rocks. Near 

 the top J'aniassiiis apollo occurred — Swiss type. After a hot scramljle 

 we reached a plateau, about 4,500ft. in height, and there found good 

 mountain meadows and much brushwood. Wo got Jlrmtliis hevatc 

 here, Poh/oiiniiatus cuwciJun (type and var. fi/lf/iaj, Ijifcacna arian, 

 N. sc))iiar<in>i, P. iolas, P. awandns, C. iphis, and many other common 

 things, but nothing unusual, and no Erebias except medusa. A 

 threatening thunderstorm drove us down about midday, but it never 

 came to Travnik, and we spent the afternoon collecting in some nice 

 wet fields on the sandstone hill immediately south of the town. Here 

 we took quite a different class of insect, especially Fritillaries, which 

 swarmed ; but again no captures of any note. June 23rd we devoted 

 to the ascent of the Vlasic, a great, grass-covered, limestone plateau, 

 about eight miles or more in length from east to west, defended all 

 along the southern face by tremendous precipices. We made a Avide 

 (li'tonr, and ascended the Avestern end of the ridge ; then Avalked all 

 along the grassy northern slopes to the top, Avhich is nearly due north 

 of TraA'nik. We took great quantities of P. )iicih(sa A'ar. jismJca on 

 this mountain, and a feAV specimens of ]'!. ooiu- A"ar. sjiodca, both quite 

 fresh, but no Mckuiijdas epipltnm, Avhich rather surprised me. Re- 

 turning to Travnik by a steeper and more direct route, we took 

 numbers of P. Dinciitosi/nc, P. cnmcdnn A'ar. ft/h/ia, B. Jicratr, &c., but 

 no insects occurred till Ave had descended nearly 1,000ft. from the 

 summit. These eastern mountains are singularly cold and late ;■ 

 insect life did not appear to have ascended much over 5,000ft. OA'en at 

 the end of June. I Avas lucky enough to get a good specimen of 

 A(/lais itrticac ab. turcica at the highest shepherd huts on the V'lasic. 

 The type sAvarmed there, and Ave caught a great many, but found only 

 one turcica. June 25th found us at Jajce, on the I'liva, a good place 

 for insects, Avith considerable A'ariety of geological formation. The 

 toAvn itself is built on a curious kind of sandstone rock, through 

 Avhich the lovely ri\-er cuts its Avay in great rapids, ending Avith a fine 

 fall. All the higher ground is mountain limestone. I neA'er, in all 

 Bosnia, met Avith any elevation OA^er 4,000ft. of any otlicr formation, 

 though the rocks of the loAver hills and valleys vary considerably. We 

 took a good many species of butterflies during our AA'eek at Jajce, of 

 which the most remarkable Avere : Apatura iris, A. ilia var. chjiic, 

 Tluda acaciac, Pvcrcs tdicaiiiis, P. iolas, L. arinn, C. dispar var. rutilus 



