4 THK ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



ground on the western side of Mostar, where we got a single specimen 

 of Pidi/nitniiattis balranica, fresh from the chrysahs. But our utmost 

 endeavours failed to discover any more of this lovely little blue, so we 

 went back to Sarajevo, intending to return later on to look for it. 



June 15th saw us back at Sarajevo. On the IGth we explored a 

 gully running up to the Trebevic, a beautiful and well-wooded moun- 

 tain, 5,000 feet high, close to the town. Here we found a great many 

 insects — Painassius mnciiio.si/^ic, ('Jni/.sdjiliauns /tipjxitJto'c (very dark 

 specimens), llirnt/iis (unathima, all the common Melitseas, Puli/mii- 

 niatiis cms, ('ooumiiiiijiha airmtia, ('. ipliis, &c. But we were 

 anxious to lose no time in trying the marshes of the Save for ('hrijuo- 

 jilianiis ilisparx'cir. riitiliis, and also the wooded valleys of north Bosnia 

 for the rare Xrptis acnis, so we travelled by night train to Bosnisch 

 Jirod, and arrived there in torrents of rain, at 2.40 a.m., on the 17th. 

 It poured all that day, much to our disgust, for we were already late for 

 A. accris and C. disjiar, and we feared that the bad weather would 

 spoil our chances of good specimens. And so, indeed, it proved, for 

 when June IHth brought sunshine and we took a great many of the 

 splendid " (Ireat Copper " around the glacis of the fortress of Slavisch 

 Brod, and in the marshes, few indeed of them were perfect insects. 



Still, June 18th was a red letter day with us ; we had neither of 

 us ever seen such a " copper " before, and although C. dispar var. 

 rtitiliis is not as big as the extinct Enghsh type, yet it is a lovely 

 butterfly ! It darts like a living flame along the tall greyish marsh 

 grass, then, suddenly turning the grey underside of its wings towards 

 you, it becomes almost impossible to mark its flight, till, with another 

 turn, the fiery copi^er again flashes in the sunshine, and tempts the 

 reckless pursuer to flounder deeper and yet deeper into the bog ! 

 I think, on the whole, that this butterfly is easier to catch on a grey 

 warm day, without much sun. It may then be seen sitting with closed 

 wings on blades of grass, or on yellow flowers, and may be quietly 

 approached and netted without difficulty. It is to be had pretty 

 nearly all through the summer at various dates, according to the 

 elevation, in every wet valley of north Bosnia, up to a height of about 

 2,000ft. (or more) ; and the second brood appears in the lowlands 

 almost before the flrst brood is over in the hill country. Those taken 

 in the mountains are a great deal smaller than the first brood in the 

 Save marshes. On this 18th of June we took, besides the " copper" 

 Kci'ics anjiadcfi in plenty, T. avaciac, ArascJmia Icvana, and a splendid 

 specimen of Apatura ilia var. dytii'. We devoted another day to the 

 marshes, and got some more ( '. dispar var. rutiliis, several bad speci- 

 mens of ('(H'ndnijmpha darns and M. tjalathea, and some sundries, but 

 entirely failed to find X. accris. As usual, we had no exact informa- 

 tion as to where to get it, and it was only because the steep, wooded 

 hills of Kobas looked picturesque, rising abruptly from the plain of 

 the Save, about 20 miles oft', that Ave resolved to explore them. 

 We started at 4.0 a.m. by train, and many and absurd were our 

 adventures before we reached our point, but 11.0 o'clock found us 

 ascending a wooded glen at the foot of the Kobas ; and here, on a 

 Spanish chestnut tree, we saw three X. accris. We took them all, but 

 only two of them were tolerable specimens, and we were evidently late 

 for the butterfly. However, we were enchanted with our prize, and 

 hoped to get plenty more before the day was over. But, alas ! grey 



