NOTES ON THE SWISS RHOPALOCEBA. V. 105 



thore last July. Several were about, and I had a total of five before 

 rain drove me down. This clearing is a good spot for them no doubt, 

 and it gives room for a chase. B. tlmrr flies in a jerlcey way in straight, 

 even linos, a little like the ' White Admiral.' I expect they are to be 

 had in this clearing every June. I also got Erebia jiicdiitia, Jhoitliis 

 eKjihrosi/iie, J)re)it/iis si'leiie (one), JSientliis aiiiathnnia, Melitaea dictniina 

 (one very good), C/irj/sophaniis rin/aiireae, Pleheixn argus {afffo})), 

 and Varanje aei/eria. [Probably ab. intermedia, Tutt. — L.M.F.] 



" Yesterday, on the hot north terraces of grass over Faido, when 

 the sun at last came out for ten minutes, I at once caught one AKjynnis 

 aifldia and one Ari/t/nnis adi/ijie var. cleodoxa, also Paniassiiis apoUo. 



"P.S. — On the Weesen marshes I found the best places for Lycaeyia 

 eiiidu'iinis were beside the railway (the Filzbach footpath), but for 

 i'(ieii(i)u/iii{iha tiphon near its further side, South or South-East of its 

 centre." 



5. Weesen, etc. 



(Although some of the matter in this and succeeding letters is 

 identical with that already published in the Ent. Itecord (vol. xxvi., 

 pp. 228 and 242), I am communicating it again, in the first place, for 

 its many extra details, and in the second, for the original observant 

 personality which pervades it, and indeed all Mr. Fison's correspond- 

 ence, entomological or otherwise. — Lilian M. Fison.) 



" Hotel Speer, Weesen, June 24th, 1904. 



" I have too much to sa,y to-day, for one of my usual post cards. 



" First, did I ever write you about the day's hunt I had (May 24th) 

 up from Bramois to Vex, looking for (Tlaucopsyc/te {Xoitiiades) inelanopa. 

 A vcnj fine dcuj, but scarce a butterfly on all that part, though ever}' 

 second plant in most places was thyme. The thyme, however, was so 

 young I did not recognise it at first, though the scent was very strong. 

 The leaves were not their usual colour, and not a trace of flower or 

 bud, in even the hottest parts. W'ould it not be very strange if a fly 

 that fed on a plant should appear when it was so little grown ? The 

 entire absence of any blues there was remarkable. I got four Erebia 

 evias in the cool bottom of gorge by Hermitage (opposite). 



" At Faido I got lirentliis thme at once : five, the first day's hunt 

 (a cool day) in the best clearing south of Faido. A second day the 

 clearing seemed deserted, but I found six more going about at the same 

 level (some bOO feet up). It was a hotter day. I got my twelfth and 

 last tluire higher up the forest the day before I left, as 1 returned from 

 a rather fruitless higher alpine walk. They were in good condition. 



" As to yellow ' Apollos ' I only got one Avith the lowest spot 

 yellow. At Lavorgo there were no flne $ ' Apollos ' about. Indeed 

 it seemed too early for that place. 



"Although I soon got a flne ( 'ooioin/miiha anania var. insubrira in 

 the cool, south forest meadows at Faido, I scarcely found another as 

 fine ; but still, of the seven to ten I iiian have, they all have the white 

 band iinich reduced, and I hope they are true. I was there from the 10th 

 to the 16th (June), when I went to Arth Cloldau till last Wednesday 

 (June 25th). 



"At Arth-Goldau I got Coennni/inp/ia tip/i<in (eight on 16th), at the 

 end of Lowjerzee Lake, but found a better place for them later, close to 

 Arth Goldau. This was just east of it, at the very lowest western 



