AN KAStEK liOLlbAY AT UTERES. 130 



stopping to do battle with a iioddin;^' hawkweod or other golden flower. 

 Passing on towards the Costabclle Woods, 1 found l'arar<ie ajcrla — the 

 southern form — Hitting restlessly in and out of the ilex trees, and 

 it was on the trunk of one of them that I saw and captured the sole 

 specimen of I'dli/nonia tyca, whicli foil to my bag. In the pine woods 

 a little higher up the hill, I passed Avhat I take to have been the same 

 butterfly which was seen careering wildly down the rides, though I was 

 never quick enough to net a specimen and make sure of its identity. 

 On the following day, at the summit of the CoUine des Oiseaux, I first 

 noted rajiilid wac/iaan, but Mr. Raine informed me that the species 

 at Hyeres often puts in an appearance as early as the second week in 

 March. I'ajiiUi) jxnialirius was also to be seen flitting about the 

 cultivated slopes of the hills, but in a woful plight, and the only 

 undamaged specimen I captured was on the top of Mont Paradis, 

 where, as I anticipated from Mr. Buckmaster's paper aforesaid, I found 

 the swallow-tails in some abundance, despite the tearing wind which 

 swept the pleasant altitude. The day I climbed its scrubby slopes 

 from Carqueranne will be marked with a white stone in my entomo- 

 logical memory. Mr. Raine had told me that if I wanted Thais 

 ntiiiina var. mededcaste , I must work up from that village through the 

 allotments. So to Carqueranne I went by the omnibus at eight 

 o'clock, to be on the ground betimes, knowing the peculiar wisdom of 

 the adage " early to rise " in the pursuit of southern insects, which 

 at Hyeres are often about as early as five in the morning, and almost 

 entirely disappear in the great heat of the afternoon, Thais being an 

 exceptionally early riser and early sleeper. However, not knowing 

 the ground, and having mistaken my directions, I went ofl' in exactly 

 the opposite direction to what 1 afterwards discovered to be the 

 particular haunt of this beautiful insect. The wind was blowing great 

 guns by this time, so I naturally thought that ray ill-luck was due to 

 the fact, and amused myself with whistling " Cease rude Boreas," to 

 no eflect, as I pounded up the slippery sides of Paradis. There I 

 found Ci/aniris anjiolua, a very splendid and big example ; Paranje 

 tiiocra (the sole observation of this insect) ; Pararje mcijaera (the 

 commonest thing about) ; and for the first time, as I began to descend, 

 came upon that most beautiful of all the Euchloes — K. cupJicnoiiU's, 

 well named the " Glory of Provence." The wind had now somewhat 

 abated, and I thought I would return to Hyeres over the hills. 

 Happily, I changed my mind, and was plodding back to Carqueranne, 

 when 1 nearly stepped upon a fine T. inaU-sicastc, settled on a clump 

 of wild thyme. As it turned out, I had come upon the right place for 

 it by accident, and I took half-a-dozen before the afternoon was over, 

 together with one very battered Thai^f jiolj/.trna var. cassandra, which I 

 hardly expected to find in this particular place, though there is 

 plenty of aristolochia about, a plant once sindt never forgotten ! 

 In the woods, that day, I also observed FAuhliw cardamincs and 

 Lfucophasia si)ia}iis, while X. melanops again turned up with Thistor 

 halUis, wherever the thyme was growing. A second visit to Carquer- 

 anne a week later added three or four more T. nicdesicastc to the box, 

 but no further new species, and I was evidently too early for the 

 female of I'l. midu-tioidis, which I heard was taken at Costabelle the 

 day before I left (April 17th). Having secured T. iiicdisira.slr, my 

 thoughts were turned to T. cussuiuiiu, which was reputed to abound in 



