56 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



For the next ten days I made expeditions, generally alone, and I 

 spent much more time on the Barbet side of Canigou, that is on the 

 north and north-east side of the mountain. Before, however, 

 describing those experiences, I would like to remind my readers of a 

 very good method of collecting the Pleheiinae, that others as well as I 

 have found efficacious. I had spent a day on the south side of the 

 mountain in search of Plebeian orbitHlua and others of its genus, as also 

 of Hepialiia iiyrenaicm, when towards half- past four to five perhaps, in 

 the afternoon, a cold wind suddenly sprang up, which I knew meant an 

 end of collecting for that day. I was, however, by a sheltered grassy 

 spot in full light of the sunshine, though it was somewhat of a feeble 

 shine just then, when I noticed a P. orbit nlim settle in front of me on 

 the head of a withered scabious, so I approached carefully and found 

 it resting head upwards with antennae alert. Therefore, having seen 

 that it was a fine female, I sat down for five minutes beside it. 

 Gradually the antennjp relaxed, came together in front, and then 

 slowly dropped back to its primaries. Then I boxed her and carefully 

 searehed that whcle grassy plot, with the result that I succeeded in 

 boxing quite a score of specimens, nearly all of which were settled head 

 upwards, though one or two had inverted their positions, probably with 

 the intention of crawling down among the roots of the grass. 



On July 24th, amid brilliant sunshine, I took ray second walk up 

 to the Barbet. As I went along I took the usual things, Kn-bia 

 lefehvrei, still quite good, and E. epiplnon var. pi/reiwica in beautiful 

 condition. Then Crambiia di;)itellns fell to my net, and I was glad to 

 again make its acquaintance, for it is a rare species in most collections, 

 and only occurs in the Pyrenees and the South of France. I was 

 fortunate in securing some six or seven specimens in both sexes. So I 

 went on happily, having nearly made the summit of the first part of 

 the Pass, and had just flushed a ptarmigan and was gazing after it 

 for it was very wild and shy, when a sudden loud clap pulled me up 

 sharply, and I looked up to see a heavj' dark cloud rolling over the 

 Grand Pic. Then a flash of lightning and another nasty sharp clap 

 with huge drops of rain ; it came, however, from the side of the sun, so 

 there was no rainbow to add to the beauty of the scene. It soon 

 became necessary to seek for shelter, of which there seemed to be but 

 little, for the position was very exposed. There was fortunately near 

 by a low longish ledge of rock somewhat overhanging, and I was able 

 just to lie lengthwise underneath it, whilst flash after flash 

 and peal after peal crashed, and the rain soon came down very 

 heavily for a time. Gradually, however, it abated, and I thought it 

 wise to beat a retreat homewards, lest the storm should roll back again 

 as is so often the case. I got back fairly wet, in time for afternoon 

 tea, and found that mine host had gone to meet me with a great 

 " south-western " sort of waterproof cape for me to put on, but as I 

 had taken some short cuts across the hill-side, and he had taken the 

 " sentier," we had missed. By dint, however, of lusty shouts from 

 "Madame," and also from myself, Avhich doubtless reverberated to him, 

 and to which he in the end replied, we brought him back again in 

 half-an-hour or so. The thunder and rain continued during the night 

 and till " dejeuner " the next day, so the morning was spent putting 

 my captures in order. Monsieur Eugene Simon, the President of the 

 French Zoological Society and the well-known authority on 



