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llowei's at Aosta. Sati/rus heriiiiunc. — Occurred on the same ground 

 as the last species, but, with the exception of one or two specimens, 

 would not come within reach of the net. It also occurred in the 

 wooded gorge above the town, where it settled on the tree-trunks. 

 S. conhda. — Going over ; a male, in poor condition, reminding one 

 much of Enodia dnjaa, was captured ; two or three females were also 

 taken, and were remarkably well ocellated. Cucnonijiiqdia pajiijdiilHs. 

 — A few specimens only, some Avith a good broad baud, ab. hjllus. 

 Ercbia aetJtiups. — The insect, perhaps, of the locality. I never saw 

 such grand fellows as the specimens taken here — large, rich, 

 and well ocellated. The male androconia were specially fine. It 

 loved the Eupaturiiuii and thistle blossoms, and occurred even along 

 the sides of all the roads that led to the mountains. The undersides in 

 the direction of ab. leucotaenia were magnificent, and those of ab. 

 uchracea were also very fine. Erehia iieoridaa. — Kane says that this 

 species occurs at a greater altitude than E. aetldops. I had supposed 

 this was correct, but at Susa the tAvo species overlap in every direction. 

 I was surprised at the fact, but there was no doubt about it. I first found 

 the species here on a stony slope covered with lavender, very similar 

 to the La Grave and Eomanche Valley localities. Then I found 

 it on the steep slopes of a chestnut wood, where the males loved to 

 sun themselves on the leaves of the trees, and where they flitted about 

 quite out of the reach of the net. This habit of flying over the bushes,' 

 I am informed by Mrs. Nicholl, is also characteristic of the allied 

 E. zapateri in Spain. Lastly, I found it on the steep dry slopes of the 

 Mont Cenis road, where it flew restlessly up and do^n, but where it was 

 almost impossible to follow it. I was, however, successful, in getting 

 a few females this year. The species is very distinct, not only in the 

 character of the band on the fore-wings, the shape of the wings, and the 

 markings of the underside, from E. aetldops, with which some entomolo- 

 gists are inclined to unite it, but also in having an exceedingly ditierent 

 egg. Mrs. Nicholl tells me that she only took Erehia zapateri in any 

 numbers between July 29th and August 1st, when she left Aragon. She 

 found it a very sluggish insect, and says that it haunts thin wood- 

 lands, where the undergrowth consists of Uva ursi (the grouseberry), 

 which in Spain never grows at a less elevation than 4,500 feet ; she 

 never saw any number of the insect except on Uva 2ir.n. Comparing 

 this with E. neoridas, Mrs. Nicholl says : "I took E. neoridas close to 

 La Grave, and for some distance below. It is rather like E. zapateri, 

 but differs in its habits, I think. I used to get the former close to rocks, 

 whereas E'. zapateri does not seem to like either grass or stones, but 

 only the Uva uni." It would appear from my Susa observations that 

 the habits of E. neoridas vary much in diflerent localities. Oberthiir 

 says that E. neoridas is found in the Pyrenees-Orientales, around the 

 ruins of the old monastery at Saint-Martin-du-Canigon, at the end of 

 Jvily and commencement of August, but does not differ from the form 

 in the Basses- Alpes. Looking over Elwes' " Notes on the genus 

 Erehia " [Trans. Ent. Soc. Land., 1889, p. 329), I see that he queries 

 it as a doubtful species or var. of E. aethiops, but gives E. zapateri 

 specific rank. On the other hand, whilst I consider there can be no 

 doubt whatever of the specific distinctness of E. neoridas and E. 

 aetldops, I must confess that E. zapateri appears to me to run very close 

 to E. neoridas. Melananjia galatea. — A few worn specimens. The 

 insect was altogether passe. 



