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for a " maudit Teuton." The Satyrids began on the tilth with Satynis 

 lu'i-inioHi', beautifully irridescent and large, quite putting into the shade 

 its humble relative — .S. alcijnne of Martigny and lirigue. The latter 

 always settled upon the bare road like Hijijianhia xemele, giving chance 

 after chance to take it, even alighting upon my clothes, while ^\ 

 heniiione never left the wooded gorges, and preferred the tree trunks. 

 Thus far I had only seen three Pajiilia ahwaimr, and was told that a 

 local innkeeper was exterminating the larva? in its best district, so it 

 seems in a fair way to be stamped out. 



On July 2nd 1 took a single Hirsittina ailnictiis on a half-opened 

 lavender blossom, also Sati/rus circe and Laeusojiis roboris. The heat 

 was now intense, butterflies were flying at 6 a.m., and soon after ten 

 o'clock they nearly all ceased flying, and took shelter under the trees. 

 I noted that in the great heat of September, 1911, at Martigny, they re- 

 appeared about four in the afternoon, when the t^un had set behind the 

 mountains, and flew on till six. On the Dourbes Road the crop had 

 been gathered from a large cherry tree, leaving single fruit here and 

 there, bursting and rotting in the sun, and whenever we passed, a 

 score or more of S. circe, 8. heniiinne, and very large hi. scinele would 

 fly out, to return as soon as we had left. The new brood of /'. eyea 

 appeared on the 4th, and on revisiting the roboris spot I was fortunate 

 enough to take five, three being females in fine condition, also three 

 N. acaciac, which I did not expect, on some dwarf sloes on the same 

 ground. Faniassjim apollo were very common, I counted eighteen at 

 once, soaring up the slope, and those that I sampled were larger than 

 the specimens from the Rhone Valley. A single Siiti/rn.s actaea was 

 caught on the 7th. .S'. cordula had been well out for ten days, very 

 fine and large. No H. admctus had appeared since the one taken on 

 the 2nd, but on the 5th they emerged on the flat opposite the Eaux 

 Chaudes, and I took nine at rest on lavender on a cloudy afternoon. 

 On the 10th, at Les Dourbes, I turned up some very large Bitlnjs 

 qtterciis, Epinephele tithonits, and a female N. circe, measuring 87mm., 

 also a flne series of S. henirinue. Returning, we crossed the valley 

 and came up on to the Eaux Chaudes road, where my wife called me 

 to look at a new butterfly. She does not herself collect, but from 

 experience I never fail to hurry to the spot when any novelty arrests 

 her attention. On the top twig of a high bramble overhanging the 

 road I could see against the sky the unfamiliar outline of the upper- 

 wing of Libythea celtis. It was quite inaccessible, but after many 

 attempts I threw some dust over it, and it flew lower down and into 

 my net. it was evidently fresh out that morning. No others were 

 visible, and a long wait at the spot was in vain, but when I passed the 

 place two hours later, there was L. celtis on the same twig. I have 

 often noticed this demand and supply habit in butterflies ; the loss is 

 not repaired while you wait, but if you pass over the place the next 

 day there is another. " Uno avulso, non deficit alter." One of the 

 greatest moments of pleasure for a collector is to see and take for the 

 first time a species which he has only seen in books or museum collec- 

 tions. I took eight L. celtia in all at different dates on the same 

 bramble on the same twig. Then came a violent hailstorm, with the 

 afternoon thunder, which knocked the blossom, already pink, to pieces, 

 and I never saw L. celtis again. 



The 13th saw the first Pohjcnnmatus ineleai/cr on the Dourbes road, 



