NOTES ON THE SWISS RHOPALOCERA. 



15^ 



black of forewing upperside. Panwssins dclins is very rare. Dark $ 

 I i rent his pales are not uncommon. Aricia {['oli/dinjiiatnx) donzelii 

 abounds on road up E. vallej', and Pohiimmiatus erns\^^i\\\ frpsh there. 

 A fortnight ago I got a dozen very dark Mclitaca inerope, and ought to 

 have secured more, as they were in crowds. Mditaca pliocbc has been 

 very common." 



10. Miscellaneous. 



" Aigle, September 12th, 1905. 

 " Came here from Binn a fortnight ago. Have now placed in my 

 drawers practically all I have taken this season — and there is perhaps 

 not so much to show for it as sometimes. At l>inn I found innumer- 

 able 5 Colios fialacno of different shades (white and yellow), although 

 many were faded. Hrent/iis /lales ab. napaea also was excessively 

 common on the same Alp (Stockhorn), but in the clearings. Lately I 

 have been four times to Martigny between September 5th and 11th, 

 and twice beyond La Tour de la Batiaz. Have got three or four 

 Mi'litaea deionc, var. bnisalemis. A 3 and ? I took yesterday were 

 nearly fresh, and so were the Pierh dapUdice I found in about equal 

 numbers, indeed they were perhaps better. It is interesting to know 

 how late var. berisaleusis can be had, a fact many may be glad to know, 

 if it is as most years. At Branson Bridge we also got three or four 

 FA-eren arf/iades, var. coretas, a few nicely fresh. I got one fine large 

 ( 'iipido seinia there. I had a long hunt for Lai)ij>ides [Li/caena) boeticiis 

 around the ( oliitca corner, but saw nothing. The ddutea arborescens 

 bushes are in a bad way — only one had six or seven pods on it. 

 Twice I looked above the vines by the road beyond La Batiaz for 

 Satj/iKs ij/.sr/s, but could not find it. A collector took many I'ar)iassiiis 

 ddiiis by Lac Lioson, sixteen Apatioa iris on the Sepey road and 

 some Liiiieiiitis /inpidi." 



11. Lani/iides boeticiis, L., etc. 



" Aigle, September 19th, 1905. 

 "Yesterday I was at C'harpigny .... and got four "Pea-pod 

 argup " {Laviiiides bueticns), rather old of course, but two I kept are not 

 too bad. I caught three — two high on an ash. I also took two dark 

 yellow L'apiliit inoilunin.'" 



12, hri/as pandora, Schiff. 



" Charpigny, September 23rd, 1905. 

 " Have just taken a very good Drtjas pandora here. A slight chip 

 in one wing, but that is renj little, and it is nicely fresh too. It was 

 on clover flowers. An old 2 Dri/aa paphia turned up too, which I took. 

 The fiando)!! was between the Chalet and Les Saves." 



18. Antlmcltaris sinijiloiiia, Frr. 



"Clarens, December 11th, 1905. 

 "If I can go to Charpigny for the two 'mountain Simplonias' 

 from Binn, would you mind taking them for comparison'? A Swiss 

 collector says positively 'they are the Swiss form of Aitt/mcliaris belia.' 

 1 should like the question thrashed out." ■ 



* Of course they are nothing of the sort. The early stages of A. simjflouia 

 seem really nsarer to I'ontia ddplidice than to .1. crameri {lielia auctorum). — G.W. 



