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one darker fly. I have two $ Paniassiusi deliiis (unless one is Parnas- 

 siiifi apolln) with three red spots by discoidal spot. Brent his ino abounds, 

 though now old, and Brenthis pales. Very few flies of any kind on 

 high parts as near the Tscherva scherva glacier and hut. No Colias 

 palaeiKi to be seen. I got two old BrenthU tlwre to-day in Rosegthal 

 at the end in glades. They have been taken there all July. I 

 cannot find Erebia eriphyle there." 



9. Araschnia levana var. prorsa, L., etc. 



" Hotel Speer, Weesen, August 3rd, 1904. 

 " I came down here yesterday to look for var. jn-orsa in the 

 Murgthal, and have just returned. There was scarcely any sun. 

 Under the wood, on a tiny ridge, where avalanche debris lies about, I 

 got one. Then a second after a long chase, and when the sun came 

 out for a few minutes, four more. More sun produced no more there 

 for a long time, but on going down (150 feet) to the warm, bare path 

 and fountain, I got four at once, making my total ten. I fear all are 

 a little spoilt, and would have been better a week ago. All (except 

 one) have double white spots on centre of upperside fotewing, and a 

 long white bar across hindwing, also a few small white spots besides. 

 All the rest upperside is black with a few bright brown dashes. In 

 one (perhaps a 2 ) the patches are yellow or creamy. I think I have 

 now the three forms portrayed by Hofl'mann, for I do not think this 

 is the form of which I took six last year. It is larger, and the white 

 spots are larger, but I will read Hoftmann again when I return to 

 Pontresina. This form flies like small ' White Admirals,' and greatly 

 resembles them. Before leaving Pontresina I heard that the German 

 Professor (who perhaps collects for the Berlin Museum) got fifteen 

 Erebia fiavofasciata this year, and his companion forty. The forty were 

 given away to Mr. W. Rothschild, who has been at Campfer. At this 

 rate the persistent 'pot-hunters' will certainly clear the place, which is 

 too easy to get at. Happily there are scores of similar mountains about, 

 with gullies that look likely places for it. I hear of a place called 

 Guarda above Siis, as a great place for plants and insects. Scarcely 

 anything was on the wing to-day, except Dryas jtaplria and some 

 Erebiae. Rain came on at 2 p.m. Certainly the ' Murgthal-place' for 

 Araschnia lecana is easy to reach — one good hour up from Murg. I 

 may go there again to-morrow if fine." 



10. Stampa. 



"Hotel Speer, Weesen, August 31st, 1904. 

 "I came here yesterday after two weeks at Stampa, in the Val 

 Bregaglia. Of course it was too late for much there, but 5 ' coppers' 

 were very common, and ('hri/sopJianiis (^Heodes) virganreae a, brighter 

 yellow tint (uppersides and perhaps undersides too) even than those I 

 got at Pontresina. I have many, but scarcely any from either place 

 are quite fresh. I also got two or three dark and rather interesting 

 Buinicia phlaeas, one with blue ante-marginal spots. I got three ? 

 Loireia {Chri/sophanns) alciphron var. (jordins, but saw no 3 s, and only 

 two 3 s oi H. vinjaureae. My great catch at Stampa was three Lampides 

 telicanus. The first two in about an hour, on August 17th. Then last 

 Sunday — the 28th— close to the same spot, another was on the path, 

 and I knocked it over with my hat — as fine a fly as the others, only 



