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time in excellent condition. This road also takes one across the 

 Italian frontier at no great distance from St. Martin. Unfortunately 

 the sun again went in early in the afternoon and spoilt what would in 

 all probability have been a good day's collecting. Paruaasiiifi apollo was 

 particularly in evidence but required careful picking. 



My last morning was spent on the Madone de Fenestre road. 

 Here Dr. Keynes kindly pointed out that Satt/niH actaea was flying in 

 company with its close relative .S. vorJiila, a fact which otherwise I 

 should have overlooked. I was thus able to take a nice series of the 

 former species. It was, however, only with a great deal of patience 

 that I secured them, as they Hew evasively up and down the steep 

 hillside through Avhich the road passes. Here with great regret I said 

 good-bye to Dr. and Mrs. Keynes little expecting to meet again only a 

 few days later at Marseilles and again at Boulogne in the altered 

 circumstances of the sudden outbreak of the war. Eeturning towards 

 St. Martin, almost the last insect I took on the lower slopes of the road 

 Avere the form steevenii ? of I'nhjnnimatu^ »^'^ffl//6'r and the one and only 

 Sati/ni.s briseis I saw in this locality. 



I left St. Martin about mid-day and travelled to Monaco ri(( La 

 Vesubie and Nice, much enjoying the sight of the beautiful Rivierian 

 flora along the banks of the railway of the Cote d'Azur. Surely this 

 flora is really largely N. African rather than European. After visiting 

 the Post Offices at Monaco for postage stamps, I explored the Castle 

 Hill and dined and then returned to Cannes, where I found a very 

 comfortable bed at the Hotel des Colonies just outside the station. 

 Rising betimes I left Cannes by the 6.18 a.m. train on August 1st and 

 arrived at Le Trayas, putting up at the Hotel de la Gare. After 

 breakfast I climbed the hills round the station by the paths under the 

 extensive pine woods, but found very few Lepidoptera about. In the 

 spring I believe, Thaif; rnmina var. inedesicaste loves to frequent some 

 of these paths, but to-day even at the summit practically nothing was 

 flying, although the day was very hot and fine. Returning to the 

 station level and having made friends with the " chef du gare, etc.," I 

 collected about the station and along the line adjacent. A little 

 further along the railway to the west I found an excellent spot below 

 the line where insects v/ere quite abundant. There I took Limenitia 

 Camilla, possibly of the 2nd brood, in excellent condition, Kinnephele 

 icia somewhat worn, many male Goncptenjx cleopatra apparently just 

 emerged, and, as I was returning to the hotel, quite fresh specimens of 

 Sati/nis briseis and <S'. /idta. It was most enjoyable to have one's meals 

 nicely served behind the small but comfortable hotel in sight of the 

 blue Mediterranean waters with superb views of land and sea. 



Next morning I awoke for my last morning's collecting abroad for 

 1914 before starting homeward. At breakfast I noticed several men 

 in uniform appear and rather delay the meal, however my host simply 

 informed me that they were " from the station " and I thought 

 nothing of it. But when I went out to collect I soon found that I 

 could neither collect on the line nor even cross it, every where there 

 were French soldiers with fixed bayonets, very polite, but "No 

 Monsieur, you cannot cross the line to-day." In this place which has 

 no newspaper, church nor post-office, the truth did not reach me and 

 I calmly went on collecting and got in a very satisfactory morning's 

 work including a few more Satyrus fidia. At dejeuner I found still 



