THE KNTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



quite cleanly and conifortablo. after the manner of an English country 

 inn, and the cookint:: was quite nice. 



Next morning I sallied forth under a hot sun, taking the road 

 towards ]\[ont Aiguille leading past the railway station and over the 

 considerable railway tunnel for about two miles. Sati/nis ciire was 

 quite fresii although very elusive, but no ^^ brixfis were met with as I 

 had hoped. The day was most oppressive and the flies were very 

 troublesome. I saw what appeared to be a Ltjcaeno fK^/icnnts, and I 

 caught a tine large Phali'ia bnrephala on the wing as it made straight 

 for me. Coming home to lunch I found Dr. and Mrs. Keynes, of 

 Cambridge, who had arrived at Clelles that morning, and I had the 

 great pleasure of collecting with them here and subsequently at l')igne 

 and St. Martin- Vesubie, making my holiday so much the more 

 enjoyable. 



The morning of July ^Oth was dull and windy, and we collected 

 beside ami beyond the large viaduct on the road beyond the hotel 

 towaids 8t. Miehel-les-Portes. After much perseverance, however, w^e 

 took Siiti/nis ciire, S. ht'niiioih', Ar<i!/)inis tuii/i/x', and I lipixirchr sciiuir, 

 but again no sign of .S. briscis, although we tramped much most likely 

 ground. Whilst returning back to the hotel we were fortunate enough 

 to take a couple of llirsndna othiittns var. lifiortii, a species which we 

 believe has not previously been reported from Clelles. 



The next day we arrived in pouring rain at the Hotel l>oyer-Mistre, 

 Digne, and it was not until after five o'clock in the afternoon that I 

 was able to got out on to La Collette. There I secured my first 

 VoouDii/iiiplia <lonis, and also took a few Coleoptera. 



July 22nd was dull and we had little sun on La Collette. Six of 

 the typical form of the female of roli/oimnatKs fiichuK/cr were taken 

 quite fresh, a var. Iciiciniii'lan of Milananiiii (/alat/ua, uumy examples of 

 N. <•/(•(•(' and >'. heniiioni; in first rate condition generally, and a line 

 series of the male of Colins Injalc were obtained. 



The following morning I walked up beyond the Baths to the gorge 

 at the Torrent des Eaux-Chaudes, and as the day was generally very 

 dull and rather windy, I walked a long way up the cross gorge, and 

 was rewarded by capturing a beautifully fresh female t\i/)ilio ale.vanor 

 asleep on a flower stem, besides meeting with a /'. wachaon and uiauy 

 moie 8. (•/»•(•(' and N. henitione. The severe thunderstorm which had 

 occurred the previous evening had made the stream very difhcult to 

 cross, and the path up the gorge was very tedious, as much of it had 

 been washed completely away by the swollen waters. On the return, 

 ■when nearly opposite the broken bridge, several Hirsutiiia od iiwt >(.< mw. 

 ripartii were met with in excellent condition. 



July 2-lth broke very tine and hot, and I collected along the 

 l^ourbes Road in the morning "angling"' specially for Sati/nis /idia 

 below La Collette without success. Afterwards 1 continued on for 

 some considerable distance, finally crossing the river and ascending to 

 a wide extent of open ground to the right. Here I found Coliaa t-ditsa 

 males quite fresh and fairly abundant, together with many Coeno- 

 mjnip/ia lionis, several I liisiitiiia (hl)ii(tit!i var. ripartii, and a few 

 roh/imiiiKitiis uiticatpr. It was here I found my one and only Sati/nm 

 hrisiis, at Digne, a nice specimen, on the hilly and almost bare ground. 

 On my return I recrossed the stream and followed the road back to 

 the beginning of La Collette, where I ascended the hill by the narrow. 



