THE PROHIBITION OF THE CAPTURE OF PARNASSIUS APOLLO. 5 



Mr. Tntt notes that Anthrocera (Zijf/aena) exnlans was " in the 

 utmost profusion." Mr. Tutt's dates were from July 30th to August 

 5th. Mine from July 22nd to August 5th, yet I hardly saw a specimen 

 of A, i'.viilaus, not, I should say, a couple of dozen. A. )iiinos was 

 common, and six spotted species [tilipendiilae, etc.), occurred. I have 

 seen A. exnlanH " in the utmost profusion " in various places in the 

 Swiss and Graian Alps, and without actually formulating an opinion, 

 I imagine that I supposed that at these localities they were always so. 

 I don't think I ever visited any of these places in another year to test 

 the matter. Here, however, Tutt found them in profusion in 1896. 

 In 1918 they were certainly very rare. I conclude, therefore, that 

 when one finds them swarming, as they sometimes do, the season has 

 more to do with it than the actual locality. 



An interesting species met with at about 8000ft. was Anaitia 

 xiinpliciata, an inhabitant of the Diuphiny Alps, but not those of 

 Switzerland, and not met with apparently between Dauphiny and 

 Hungary. I also took a specimen of ' 'ranibns paiiperellus. I don't 

 know whether this has been recorded from Dauphiny, but it occurs in 

 the Jura and the Vosges, and like A. siinpUriata is not seen to the east 

 of this till we reach Hungary. HeterixiiinU penella was common in 

 various places, but though I did meet with larvfe and cocoons, I 

 was much struck by their rarity in comparison with the imagines ; one 

 would expect to see at least plenty of empty cocoons. The species of 

 this genus, however, differ much in different localities in this matter. 

 At Digne the cocoons of this species are everywhere conspicuous. 



The Prohibition of the Capture of Pariiassius apollo. 



By Prof. M. GILLMEK. 



[Prof. Gillmer, of Cothen, Hesse Darmstadt, has very kindly 

 furnished us with the history and full particulars of the Prohibition, 

 and Mr. Sich has carefully translated his account into English. It 

 may not be uninteresting to have the exact information, as it was 

 originally stated that the Prohibition was over the whole of Germany, 

 whereas it is only in one or two areas, where the species has been 

 excessively harassed by professional collectors for years. — H.J.T.] 



July 13th, 1912. 



Reintroducing Parnassius apollo on the Calvarienberg, near 



BOZEN. 



Oberleutnant Wilhelm von Dragoni-Rabenhorst, of Gries, near 

 Bozen (Tirol), writes, that formerly the Calvarienberg at Bozen, was 

 an excellent locality for P. apollo. A collector, who annually visited 

 this fat pasture land, is said to have so far succeeded by assiduous 

 collecting, that now not a single apollo flies on the Calvarienberg. 

 W. von Dragoni-Rabenhorst has put down on the Calverienberg a 

 large number of larva; of P. apollo var. nihiilits, from the neighbouring 

 Eisack V'alley, and asks entomologists to spare apollo until it has 

 again become firmly established there. 



