Streckfuss, Adolph: The Lonely House. v1. 22 Mar 2013
 

Streckfuss, Adolph, 1823-1895
Translated from the German by: Wister, A. L. (Annis Lee), 1830-1908

Excerpt
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!