2 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



have taken it on this excursion, as we were within an easy day's journey 

 from Sebenico. It is certainly never caught in ]>osnia or Hercego- 

 vina, and is one of the two early Erebias — ofrr var. dahnata and 

 fpisttjijne being the only European representatives of the family that 

 appear in the spring. 



The first days of May we spent on the shores of the Bocche di 

 Cattaro, and, in addition to our Eagusa list of butterflies, we took 

 Si/rirhtJiiis orhifer and S, Kidac, both rare insects in western Europe, but 

 rather common in the south-east. We took them in many places. 

 We also caught a fine example of Culias ediisa var. Jwlice, and A. helia 

 var. siiiiplonia (plentiful). May 5th, we arrived at Cettinje, probably 

 the most singular of European capitals — a village of 1,200 inhabi- 

 tants, situated in a small fertile plain, surrounded by the most barren 

 limestone mountains it is possible to conceive. Here we found a good 

 hotel, which we used as headquarters for nearly three weeks, making 

 tours thence to Scutari, in Albania, Ejeka, and Podgori9a, in the 

 Mora9a Valley. This district is a very singular one, and entomologic- 

 ally interesting, because the insects of the South Balkans are 

 occasionally taken here. We got four specimens of Chn/sdjihanus 

 oiiowm?2u.s-, probably its extreme north-western limit — three males and 

 one female — close to Cettinje ; also two specimens of Fapilio alc.mnor, 

 j\Iditai'a at/ialia ab. cori/dalia, a good many tS'. orhifer and S. sidae, and 

 plenty of /'. cnjane, of which latter several specimens were much more 

 darkly tinged with grey and yellow than those which we caught on 

 the coast. We also took numbers of Tluds jKili/xcna on the stony 

 mountains round Cettinje, which seems an extraordinary locality for 

 an insect which usually haunts marshy ground. The fine variety, 

 oc/i raced, flies with the type over these barren rocks. We got ten 

 specimens in all, of which the ground colour was a deep yellow ochre. 



On May 25th we returned to Eagusa, and spent another day 

 at Val d'Ombla, where we got 14 good specimens of Hesperia 

 7iustradaim(!^, one P. )iie;/acra, approaching var. li/ssa, and Macnxjlussa 

 cruatica. We visited the beautiful Isola Lacroma, but saw nothing 

 very remarkable, except one Cliaraurs jasins. The monks at the 

 monastery told us that this butterfly is very common there, but not 

 till about June 8th. This is probably in consequence of the lower 

 temperature of the eastern Mediterranean as compared with the 

 western, May 20th, or even earlier, being the date for C. jasins in 

 Corsica. On May 2yth we went to Spalato, hoping to get Melananjia 

 larism there. But we were too early for it, and only took four 

 specimens just out of chrysalis. Besides these we caught ruli/ummatus 

 iolas, H. nostradamus, and a few other common southern insects — 

 also Macro(il()fi.sa eroatica. The country around Spalato would be 

 better for insects if the fertility of the soil had not encouraged the 

 cultivation of the vine to such an extent that every foot of land is 

 devoted to grapes, which are perpetually dusted with arsenic, in order 

 to destroy the Phylloxera, and other insects share the same fate. We 

 travelled direct from Spalato to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, 

 situated in a rich plain, about seven miles across, and 1,500ft. above 

 the sea. It has probably been, in prehistoric days, the bed of a lake. 

 This plain is surrounded by fine mountains, varying in height from 

 4,000ft. to G, 400ft., very well wooded and picturesque, a great contrast 

 to the barren *' Karst " of Montenegro and Dalmatia. Sarajevo 



