104 THE entomologist's record. 



try Fusio and then Davos again, towards the end of June .... 

 I hope to be in the Val Bregaglia part of July at least." 



[" Is this dark J an intermediate form, approaching ab. liKjens, 

 Caradja. " Almost without eye-spots, hindwing upperside 3 darker 

 in tint, $ very dark." Wheeler, Butterfiies of Switzerland. — L. M. 

 Fison.] 



2. SiON. 



" Grand Hotel, Sion, May 20fch, 1904. 



"■To-day I went down to your place for yielitaea aiirdia and found 

 a good many there. They often seem very dark. I got four ? s, and 

 two of them had lif/Iiter rows of spots. I was most surprised to find 

 four beautiful, and undoubted, Pol}/o)iiiiiatiis omandiis at the same spot, 

 by the thin alder wood, about 40 yards south of the char road. I 

 hunted about for more, but saw none. At a further wood I got three 

 Melitaea dictynna, and two or three Melitaea aiirelia. This afternoon 

 I got two more aurelia, about one mile east of Sion, by the high road 

 after crossing the rickety planks of the aqueduct bridge. Nearer south, 

 just below Tourbillon on the north, I was surprised to find a ? Par- 

 nassiiis ijinemosyne in a meadow. Near by, on a dry hill, I took about 

 six Melitaea didyma, and twenty-one on Tuesday afternoon {ejj., May 

 18th) in the same place. I saw also two Melitaea plwebe there. 



" This is a capital district for Kuc/dw' cardamiiies ab. citrania, and 



I should think a better place than Charpigny." 



8. Loiceia (Chrysoplianiift) auiphidaitias, Esp. 



" Grand Hotel, Bex, May 30th, 1904. 



" I had to go to Caux this morning, so went on to the spot for 

 Loiveia {Chrywplianus) amphidaiiias, which I reached about 9.45. I 

 caught one at once. Then dotm by path below last chalet but one on 

 right, to the Torrent, where there were laf^ (I canght about twenty) 

 till the sun catne out more clearly at 11.30, when they all disappeared ! 

 At 12 p.m. 1 prepared to go, when more liyJit clouds brouyht theiu out, 

 and at 12.30 T departed with a catch of 26. A few were washed and 

 some chipped." 



[This detail may go to disprove the suggestion in my note on this 

 species Etit. Record, vol. xxvii., p. 65), that am/dridaiuas (together 

 with other " coppers "), is more dependent on sun than some other 

 species for its existence. I am afraid, as each time (three visits — one 

 on May 31st, and two in early June) we did not reach its haunt before 



II a.m., it was a case of the "late bird losing the worm!" and 

 nhsence of sun, rather than the opposite, which brought the butterflies 

 out, at any rate as regards C. aiuphidaiiias, if not other Chrysophanids. 

 — L.M.F.] 



4. Faido. 



"Hotel Angelo, Faido, June 11th, 1904. 

 "You will, I think, be interested to know that this morning, when 

 the sun came out for an hour, I at once caught a fine Brenthis thore, on 

 the cool, south side of the torrent, below Faido. Almost my next 

 capture, on the same open bit of grass, was a fine Coenonyiiipha 

 arcania var. insubrica, but I saw no more. Going up the new char 

 road in the same wood, about half or three-quarters of a mile, I reached 

 the only long bit of clearing (just past a waterfall) where I got my B. 



