30 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Lunched. Saw nothing at all higher up, and almost thought of 

 returning without seeing the Thalalpsee, when I got a second M. 

 tlwre, and soon found there were lots about on a fairly clear, sunny 

 part over (east of) the path. For half-an-hour I had an active time, 

 whenever the sun came out. By 3 p.m. it was too shady and cool, 

 but in all I came back with 20 thore. About one-half are rather old, 

 but a few are splendid. Five or six IhentJiis a)iiat}iut<ia flew with 

 them." 



5. Champery. 



" August 4th, 1903. 

 " The cold and wet thus far have greatly hindered me. One day, 

 on the sunny corner of an old moraine, one mile beyond Barmaz, 1 

 found 12 or 13 Brentlm pales, but no var. arsilacJie. It was very cold. 

 Yestei'day, at 1,800 m., behind Croix de Culet, I got a 2 Kpinephele 

 jirrtina, which looks more like var, hhpiilla than any I took south of 

 the Alps. To-day I have had a grand time at Anthemoz, but of my 

 fourteen Brenthia jialea most are $ , and I fear none are var. arsilache. 

 When near returning, about 2 p.m., I went into a dry gully half a 

 mile south of Anthemoz, and I think I never found a better place for 

 small Erehia. I got about fourteen Erebia pharte (some few old), 

 three or four Erebia epiphron var. cassinpe, Erebia tyndarus and a 

 large varietj^ of it, two Erehia f/orge, six very small Erebia manto var.. 

 pyrrliula, two Brenthis pales, four Cinmonyiiipha arcania var. dar- 

 uiniana, Erebia euryale, possibly a small Erebia oenie, and one or two- 

 other things I hope it may prove a permanent place for 



Erebia jdiarte. I have not seen Culiax palaeno, Parnassius deliiis, or 

 Erebia aledo var. ylacialiH. I have got two Cliattendenia {Tliecla) 

 n'-albii)ii, and I saw a fine Apatura iris on Sunday." 



6. CHAMPIiRY TO ChARPIGNY. 



" Charpigny, August 22nd, 1903. 

 "Was able to do but little after you left, but on Tuesday afternoon 

 I went to the zigzags at Barmaz. I got rather a good yellow Par- 

 7iassiiis apollo, and two bad intermediate ones, like the one you caught. 

 There were a few very small Ayriades coridon. On Thursday I walked 

 to Charpigny and found so many butterflies on the way, it took me 

 seven hours. Below Trois Torrents I got three tiny Loireia {Chryso- 

 phauns) darilis, but very old, plenty larger at cross-ways on old road, 

 and one fairly true E)>inephele jiirtina var. hispulla. Hirsutina damoiv 

 had disappeared, except one 5 . From CoUombex to the Rhone, 

 Enodia dry as abounded, and in the alder scrub over the Ehone Bridge' 

 I was surprised to find crowds of fine ' Wood Argus "'' (some dark and 

 some lighter) and Aphantnpus hyperantus, the last rather old, but I got 

 one fresh (very small) specimen. Near Trois Torrents too, I had' 

 taken a tiny Polynnunatus hylas. At Charpigny yesterday butterflies 

 were more numerous than any day I have been there this year, all of 

 common kinds, Erebia aethiops, Eiwdia dryas, Epiuephele titJionus, 

 Pararye meyaera, Polyommatus hylas (one very small), Ayriades 

 coridon, Ayriades thetis (bellaryns), Brenthis dia, Melitaea juirthenie,. 

 Issoria lathnnia, Ihi/as paphia, Aryynnis adippe, one fine and one very 

 old Papilio niachann, and one Pararye viaera. 



* Does Mr. Fison mean the egerides form of Parargc aegeria? — L.M.F. Yes. 

 probably also ab. pallida. — G.W. 



