80 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Li'jitosia (liij)oncheli, and G. inelanops. It was such a plainly desirable 

 neighbourhood that we spent the whole daj^ there, and indeed several 

 days, patrolling the delightfully neglected terraces in a space of less 

 than two acres. The result of the day was nine var. bellezina, five /.. 

 clKjioncheli, and several G. melanops, Knchlo'c euplienoides, and Melitaea 

 cinxia. 



April 15th was the best day of the whole month. Twenty-six 

 species w'ere on the wing, including a good number of A. helia, P. 

 (lajiliiUce var. helUdice, P. hrannicae, very large, with P. rapae and P. 

 7iajti, L. si)iaj)is and L. dujioncJiAi, the latter nearly all males, a few 

 P. pH)ilalirit(x, and P. macJiaoii drying its wings, and when G. clenp)atra 

 sailed in about ten o'clock, attended by G. rhaund, E. euplienoidea and 

 E. caidainines, the effect was a brave show of brightness and colour. 

 E. eplsti/ifue had now entirely disappeared from Ciesar's Tower Hill, 

 but could still be taken, strange to say, in good condition in a deserted 

 stone quarry at the level of the plain. Why are these quarries, with 

 nothing apparently but grass and stone, so often the pick of the dis- 

 trict ? The following week saw little development, except that Glauco- 

 psi/cJie cyllarns was relieving G. mdamips, L. diiponcheli disappeared, 

 and Pararge macra and MelcDwri/ia s>/lliits were seen. 



On the 27th we trained from our new headquarters, x\vignon, to 

 Kemoulins, and walked on to Pont du Gard, to which I was kindly 

 directed by Mr. Rowland-Brown. It was a fine opportunity for com- 

 bining the study of ancient masonry and modern Rhopalocera, and a 

 day to be remembered. While crossing the bridge an excited young 

 German called my attention to a shoal of big fish, three or four pounds 

 in weight, and possibly char from the red underneath ; he was clearly 

 an angler, and distressed, as I was myself, at seeing such grand fish 

 swimming about with no one to attend to them. Over the bridge we 

 came to a public notice board with three lines, "defense de fuiner," 

 " defense de chasser," and lastly, " defense d'entrer ; " taking this as a 

 permit, we entered, but found little within except groups of C. )iiini)nus 

 and a few Aricia medon {astrarchc). The really productive ground was 

 a sandy waste between the only private house (a staring villa with 

 pompous gates) and the restaurant. Here Thais )iiedesicaste was out in 

 splendid form, with almost everything seen at Aix, except E. cjdsti/gne 

 and var. bellezina. Up to the 27th I had taken or noticed forty-two 

 species. 



The 28th was spent at Orange, not with the idea of collecting, but 

 of viewing the Roman triumphal arch and amphitheatre, and of course 

 we climbed the hill close to the town where stand the remains of the 

 little fort of William III., destroyed by orders of Louis XIV. This 

 hill was literally fluttering with A. helia and E. euplienoides and the 

 Pierids, in fact I never saw so many of the first two in one spot. The 

 local goats were evidently not allowed among the flowers of this 

 charming spot. 



On the 30th, at Aries, when walking round the Arena, besides 

 three black bulls, fated to be baited {a iiioit) to make a Proven9al 

 holiday on the following Sunday, I noticed P. brassicae in numbers 

 around the chicory and mallows growing in the joints of the stone 

 work. 



After five days interval. May day saw us again at Pont du Gard. 

 Six species had emerged, Aporia crataegi, Loiveia alciphrun \B.r. (joidius, 



