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occurred, whilst Melitaea athalia in all degress of more or less suffusion 

 was abundant and some very pretty specimens of M. diihjuni var. 

 lueridioncdis likewise occurred both here and in the St. Vincent Valley. 

 In the valley itself Sati/rus circe was replaced by .V. alcyune, which 

 was common, L'olj/ouniiatKs icarus, very bright and clear in its blue, 

 occurred, and Laeonojiis roboriti was always to be taken as also Li/caena 

 avion, the radiated and heavily spotted forms. Of Vanessids two 

 Foliji/ania c-albitni fell to the net, both the pale form with small 

 markings, but much the worse for wear, and I saw but did not take 

 A. urticae and V. io: Brent/iis dia was long past its prime, but Ismria 

 lathonia and A. otjlaia were in excellent condition. Melitaea phoehe 

 was very common, very fine and very fresh. A. hi/perantiis was of 

 fairly frequent occurrence, but all quite typical; of Parar<ie nieijaera I 

 took but one specimen. Coeuotnjnipha arcania was not uncommon, 

 perhaps a I'ttle darker and more strongly marked below than the type 

 form. Among the llespeiiidac I took T/n/mcUciis acteoii rarely and Adnpaea 

 -sylvanns. The race of Krebia stj/ipie is a very fine one here as elsewhere 

 in this district, the fulvous bands are very broad and bright and the 

 •ocellated spots large and prominent, in size also it is fine, being much 

 larger than any Swiss specimens I have ever seen and also larger than 

 those I have taken in the Hautes Pyrenees. Limenitis Camilla was rare 

 'but the one or two I took were beautiful specimens. Colias cditsa was 

 by no means uncommon but the Pierid group were conspicuous rather by 

 'their absence, A. crataei/i being the commonest after C. ediixa. L. 

 ninapis occurred and Pieria [Ganorig) rapae, whilst of (Jonepteri/.r rlHunni 

 and (r. Cleopatra I only took one or two specimens. In addition to 

 these Mr, and Mrs. Johnson captured L'apiUo pndaliriua var. feist/iauieli, 

 1\ brassicae, E. cardaiiriiies, I'ararf/e iiiaera var. adiasta, Itiimicia /dilaeas 

 (I also took one var. eleiis) and f'!reres ari/iades. 



1 cannot say that, taking all things into consideration, insects were 

 abundant. A walk to Villefranche — a most interesting little frontier 

 ■fortress though now disused — and home, the back way produced P. 

 jjodaliriiis var. feistluniwli, K. eap/wnoides, ('alias ediisa and G. cleopatra, 

 the usual Melitaeae, and in addition to the ordinary run of species, 

 Flpiiiepltele ida. 



The most interesting part of the excursion was certainly that spent 

 at the Chalet Hotel of Canigou, where I stayed for nearly three weeks, 

 but this I will reserve for a later paper. 



Life=history of Lycana sephyrus var. uhrgki.'= 



By F. W. FHOHAWK, M.B.O.U., F.E.S. 

 On May 28th I received from Fraulein Sarolta von Wertheimstein 

 four living females of Lijcaena sepJtijrna, which had been captured at 

 Flamunda, Deliblat, South Hungary. These were at once placed on a 

 growing plant of Astragalus dasi/ant/nifi, and during the following two 

 ■ days over six dozen eggs Avere deposited on both surfaces of the leaves 

 •of the plant. The butterflies continued depositing for several days 

 and lived until the middle of June. 



Immediately the e<^g is extruded it is entirely of a pale green colour, which 

 rapidly fades within a few minutes to bluish-white. The egg is proportionately 

 small for the size of the butterfly, measuring only •53mm. across its greatest 



* Cf. Ent. Record, vol. xxiv., p. 190, 1912. 



