NO'I'KS ON AdlUADKS (HIKIDON. 



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dry 1)0(1 of the stminilot. I lore woro to bo found quantities of S.circ' 

 and .S'. /ifniiitnic tryini; to avoid the torrid heat of the sun, to<,'etlier 

 with a nuinher of < loiir/ihii/.r rlcojHUiit, wliicii wimt n,|)|)a,i'(nitly just 

 eniGra;ini4-. 



The niorninf,' of July 25th was devoted to the ground In^hind the 

 station water-tower, following the stream right up into the hills to the 

 circular i-oad by which I returned. The neighbourhood of the stream 

 was \inproductive, but on the high ground and road I found I'ontia 

 (lapliiUrc and (lonci'tenjx ch'ojHxtra in increasing numbers, and saw 

 hUifanexm aiitio/ia for the first time this season. Tlui nuilos of both 

 Colias cdiisa ami ('. /n/dlr were conspicuous, and I'apiUi^ iKxIdliriiis 

 graced the return home to lunch along the road parallel with the 

 railway. In the afternoon 1 drove up to the hjaux-Chaudos grounds, 

 and in the cross gorge met with Calliinorplui Iwnt and Lasidranifia 

 ^liierci'is, with a specimen of Lit/iDsia liiriilmlit. doing over to tho 

 other side of the stream, some time was spent in securing a good 

 series of HirsutiiKi (Khiu'tiis var. ri/xiitii. On recrossing the stream to 

 the side I was first working I took a veiy nice series of Aiitlinirrra 

 (Xi/tiarua) ocriffDiica. 



iVfy last morning at Digne was spent at La Collete and the time 

 was chiefly taken up witli capturing good series of ConuminnplKt ilonin 

 and liil/n/s iini'mh, which latter were quite numerous and fresh in 

 their shady habitat. 



Severa.l species which 1 hiul iiopod to have met with a,t l)igno, 

 such as l<!irl)ia iiroridax, I lijiixirchia arct/iiisa, llnalin hftidac, a,nd 

 Sati/nis stdtilhins, did not put in an jippoai-ance. Mela no in in (/(dat/ica 

 var, procida was everywhere the connuonest butterily. One's gcMiei-al 

 conclusion with rega,rd to tlui Uhopalocei'a a,t Digne this year is, that 

 either the season in the South of I'rance \va,s bad in comparison with 

 the season at home, or else that the district is sulVtu-ing from over 

 collecting. "Blues" and " co|)pers " were conspicuous by their 

 absence, and one can only hope that if my latter conclusion be the 

 right one, that Digne may be able to get a rest for a year or two on 

 account of the [)resent conditions and recover its entonu)logically good 

 name when tho "piping times " of peace return. On tho afternoon of 

 July 2Gth I left Digne by tho Sud do l*'ranco lino on the long and 

 tedious journey to 8t. Martin-Vesubio. 



('/'(» he coucluded.) 



Notes on Aj^riades coridon, with j^yiiandromorphisni limited to 

 secondary sexual characters (Secondary Soniatic-hermaphroditism). 



15y E. A. COCKAYNK, M.A., M.l). 



Jjast year, when the females of Aijriadc^ ni)idi»i so greatly out- 

 numbered the males at Royston, a considera,ble number of specimens 

 wei'o taken, which had the wings on one side smaller tha,n those on 

 the other and a variable a,mount of blue scaling on the small side. 



Mr. C. P. L'ickett recorded 4}{ examples in his paper in the Knt. 

 Record, XXVI., p. 69, and doubtless more had been captured. Tho 

 form has received tho name ah. inncquaVni. Mr, Newman in the same 

 year took a splendid gynandromorph with large areas of blue occupying 

 the greater pai't of one side, and this sido was no larger in si/e tha,n tho 

 other. Those asymmetrical fenuiles set^med to mo so remarkable as to 



