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evidently becaiise it is late. I saw four Paniasains deliiis and took two ; 

 one l'(n)tansiii!i ojiolln. Mo sign of Melitaea iiiaturna (var. indfcnsher- 

 geri), saw a L'vlias jihi con tone, and another 'yellovr.' The rhododendron 

 there was past, and nothing about it except a lot of Kvchia tipi(l((ri(s. 

 I did, however, get about nine F.rehia enplnjle, though rather old ones. 

 They were on moist banks where Adinosti/lefi and other big-leaved 

 things grow just as in the Dischmathal. Heodes {Clirynopltanits) hip- 

 iwtho? var, eini/bia was pretty good; also Coenonyiii})ha satyrion and 

 Loireia {ClirysojiIia)iitii) dorilis. No good 'blues.' Evidently one should 

 go higher than the Thais. I shall try to do so, and may go on to Pon- 

 tresin?. I hope to go up th^ Dischmathal to-morrow. Very fine 

 and hot to-day, until a little storm at 8.30." 



7. Localities for Heteropterus worpheus, Pallas, etc. 



" Hotel Steinbok, Pontresina, July 21st, 1904. 

 "I send a second post-card, in case my first to Fusio misses you. 

 From Reazzino walk towards Locarno. First you go near the Quarries, 

 Then comes a sort of farm with open grass in front. There 1 saw one 

 or two Hetetopterus morphetix in the road. The spring may be 100 

 yards further. It flows across the road or track, and has tall rushes 

 round. That was where I got four , , . . At this hotel are two 

 ardent collectors. They got a Lam/iides [Uaytvardio) telicannx two or 

 three days ago, neai' Celerina. I could see no trace of Hrcbia flavo- 

 faariata yesterday on the Schafberg, though I went far about. At 

 Davos the peasants said everything was three weeks early. I expect 

 butterllies are very irregular. I hope you will have a fine time, but 

 the heat of Bellinzona ought to be an experience to remember." 



8. Pontresina. 



"July 80th, 1904. 

 " A Professor, of Berlin, has taken Krehia darofascidta here this 

 year, from July lst-15th. Not in my place, but between the first 

 Schafberg Restaurant and Languard Alp ditto. 200 yards from restau- 

 rant, in a ravine, and in a further (south) ravine below path, and just 

 before it, on an even steep grass shoulder, with a good guide's path up. 

 This last is above the horizontal path. A friend will ask if he has found 

 Erebia christi ; I suppose from your account on a path above Languard 

 Alp Restaurant, which the natives use. The Professor says Kiebia 

 nerine is to be had at top of the Laquinthal (under Piz), beyond first 

 or second snow. This must be the north side of the valley, and high. 

 Some collectors say here that hotter weather and more butterflies will 

 come in August, but may we expect Parnassius deli us and Paniassiiisajiollo 

 again--, which are now my few and old ? Also, will Jheniltis jtalex var. 

 armlarlie return ? It is past now, but I got nme or ten (some very old) 

 along edge of the Celerina woods, towards Pontresina. I have got five, 

 twelve, and ten on three days, but most are old. 1 hope to go down 

 for two or three nights to Murg, or Weesen. I go to look for Arasdniia 

 levana var. prorsa, but return here. Hoffmann gives as tlie tim siinnner 

 forms of Araschnia levana exactly the two distinct forms I got last year 

 and this. Lang does not agree Avith my forms at all well, unless it be 



' I took twenty P. dcUus in excellent condition on August Dtb, 1914, in less 

 than half an hour in the Suvretta Thai near the cow-hut at the gateway of the 

 path.— H.J. T. 



