JULY IN THE EASTERN PYRENEES. V 



species I noticed ; possibly, however, this was because I had stayed 

 and partially unpacked so that I did not start out till between 

 3 and 4 p.m. The following day was dull and the sky entirely over- 

 cast, nevertheless I went for the day up the St. Martin Valley and 

 spent a pleasant hour going over the ruins and the Church of St. 

 Martin of Canigou, the old church below the present new edifice is 

 very interesting with its three aisles, each of which is arranged with 

 its altar at the east end. The monks in old days certainly knew how 

 to obtain both commanding and beautiful situations. One day I saw 

 the Archbishop of Perpignan in the grounds (the Church of St. Martin 

 is a country living and seat of the Archbishops of Perpignan) directing 

 some of his men how to gather the fruit of his plane trees, he was 

 evidently particular that they should not break the branches of the 

 trees, and very picturesque his tall figure looked in his reddish purple 

 cassock and cape and very broad brimmed, stifi", round hat of the same 

 colour. 



My primary object in coming to Vernet was to obtain and watch 

 Laeosopis roboris in one of its most abundant localities. My friend Mr. 

 Jones had given me many details, so I had no difficulty in discovering 

 its haunts as also those of many other species. The second day, July 

 3rd was brilliant though at times there was a cool breeze, and I spent it 

 beyond the dairy and on the hill at the back. L. roboris was evidently 

 just coming out, for by persistent eft'ort I obtained about half-a-dozen 

 flying around the ash trees and occasionally settling on some bramble 

 that grew at the foot of the rocks just at the corner leading over the 

 stream to the pastures beyond. They were all quite fresh, so I looked 

 forward to obtaining a fair series before leaving. During my visit I 

 spent several mornings in this locality, and found a narrow path 

 about 150 feet up the hill to be a good hunting ground ; here, with 

 the aid of a long handle to my net, I secured quite a fine series of both 

 sexes of this beautiful Kuralid. In the same locality I also took 

 several quite fresh Kjnnepltele padphae. Melanargia lachesix was 

 flying fairly plentifully, so that I was able to secure them without 

 difficulty ; the species appears to remain on the wing for well over a 

 month in successive emergences, 1 imagine, as I took quite fresh 

 examples when I came down from Canigou over a month later on. 

 LepUma {Leiicopiiasia) t:ina/)ix was not uncommon in most localities. 

 Walking one morning through the hotel grounds towards the dairy, 

 I espied a beautiful TrochiUuiii a/iifoniiis just emerged, or rather 

 just having dried its wings on a very large poplar, its pupa case was 

 quickly discovered sticking out of the roots just above the ground. 

 Scarcely had I got into the held beyond when a new " blue," that I 

 had not seen before in the locality, attracted me, and soon a female 

 Ereres anjiades succumbed to my attentions, and shortly after a male 

 followed suit. The former is unusually black, as was a tfecond female 

 that I took on my return from the little fortified town of Villefranche. 

 PohjorntnatHs icarus was fairly common, the females being as abundant 

 as the males, the former being often suffused with blue, one specimen 

 being very strongly suffused over both wings. Li/caena arion was also by 

 no means uncommon, the general form being unusually large, and though 

 the blue was darkish, it was very lustrous, the spots in all cases being 

 decidedly radiated, and the dark termen very broad ; it is a very handsome 

 form. Among other species, that I hoped to secure a good series of, was 



