NOTES ON THE SWISS RHOPALOCERA. IV. 29 



folk. All was now hay-ground, but near the cross-roads I got four 

 Chri/sniihanits hip/wt/ioe. In the next part — a very narrow gorge — I 

 got Loweia aiiiiiltidcaiias as it flew up from the nettles and rough stuft" 

 which lined the tiny torrent. No more about there, but I got another 

 old fellow, as I came to a wider part, and had to climb up S. to 

 see if there was any shelter from a coming storm. This part, though 

 it faced W., was the best butterfly ground I have yet seen. It gave 

 me one good Chrijsophanus hippothoe and one Cupicio vnnitna, whilst 

 Plebeitia anjns, FolyoiiiDiatus icarits [alexis) (old), Erebia oeiiie (old), 

 Euchlo'e cardamines (old), and battered Brenthis euphrosijno were 

 abundant. I got a good BrentJm selene too, and saw a bad Melitaea 

 anrhiia. I found shelter at the Orange railway halt, which would be 

 an excellent point to train to, and then walk to Tramelan. Of that 

 part, the first half mile from the narrow gorge to a large mill pond 

 seemed to me the most likely ground of any for Loivcia amphidainas. 

 I am sure I should have got some there earlier in the day, but now 

 all was too wet and sunless. I see by the state here of the butterflies 

 I caught in good condition with anipliidaiiias at Caux and Villars, that 

 it is at least a fortnight too late for Tramelan now; almost everything 

 seems past. P. icarm [ale.via) is rare, and the only common ' blue ' 

 is Foli/oiiiiriatKs semiar(/us. I have seen no ' Burnets ' [Anthroceridae, 

 Zijijaenidae). Aphantopus hypeiantns is common, and the hawthorn, 

 but nothing else. All round Tramelan there is little or nothing 

 except ha^^fields, as here, and around all Jura villages." 



5. Miscellaneous. 



" Weesen, July 17th, 1903. 



'" A few lines to tell you how I have got on lately. 



" At Wassen 1 stayed five days, but could not find Brenthis thore. 

 Indeed, I did not know where to look for it, and the weather was soon 

 too cold. This induced me to go S. to Faido for six days. There I 

 got lots of Loweia {ChrysophaiiKs) alciphron var. cjordiiis, and some 

 well-marked ? Paniassius apollo. Amongst these I was much 

 interested in an aberration with yellow spots, underside especially 

 fine. Unfortunately, of the four I got, only one was not old, but I 

 caught a good intermediate fly. One day, three miles from Locarno, 

 I got (on mud in the road), four specimens of a fine new ' Skipper,' 

 new to me. Upperside black, with a Greek e or s on upper edge of 

 forewing, underside with yellow lozenges in black rings. A very 

 pretty insect. Could it be the one you said flies at Giubuisco ?- The 

 last day at Faido, going out with a little American girl, she caught 

 an old butterfly, which I soon decided must be Brenthis thore. 

 This was in a cool forest clearing. Next day I came here. On 

 Wednesday, in Weesen Marsh, I got sixteen Lycaena areas, sixteen 

 Lycaena eiiphenitis (rather old), seven Coenonytnplia tiphon, and four 

 old Brenthis ino. Yesterday I went to a little shaded ravine with an 

 unpronouncable name (above Filsbachjf to look for var. prorsa, saw 

 none, but in the nettles soon got two Brenthis thore, and later two more ; 

 lots of Melitaea dictynna flying with them made great confusion. 



* This was, as Mr. Fison supposed, Heteropteriis morpheus. It was the first 

 Swiss record for over 50 years. — G.W. 



t Kupfernaseruns— an equivalent of •' Brazenose," I suppose.— G.W. 



