Ukraine! Ukraine! For years I had longed to spend some weeks in Southern Ukraine. The descriptions I had read of its wonderful mountains had greatly attracted me; I was certain of adding there many valuable specimens to my collection; that section of country had been so rarely visited by entomologists that I might even hope to enrich our German fauna with a new species. Some years before a butterfly-collector from Vienna had discovered there the caterpillar of the beautiful _Saturnia cæcigena_, found previously only in Dalmatia. Why might I not hope for something equally interesting! The scenery of Southern Ukraine is not thought to be very fine: the mountains are much less imposing than in…
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