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the costa and the hind margin. The discoidal spot is dark, and the 

 space hetween it and the dark triangular mark is of the pale ground 

 colour. The veins are strongly marked in fuscous. The hindwings, and 

 the fringes of all the wings, are pale brown. This figure neither 

 represents D. pidridella nor />. i/eatiana, and, after comparing the 

 figure with various species of Deprexsaria, I have come to the 

 conclusion that it may have been drawn from a specimen of ]>. 

 iiltiitiella, Stt., a species not then described, though it was probably 

 then no rarer than it is now. In the second (Westwood's) edition of 

 this work, the figure is coloured much more like the hgure of />. 

 yeatiana. We need not consider Rennie, as he tells us nothing that 

 previous authors did not mention {('itusjH'ctnx, p. 18G, l(S;-32). There 

 ]s a figure in Humphreys and Westwood's llritish Moths of a 

 Dcpreasarta piitriiidla, but this figure is too poor to be identified with 

 any species. The accompanying description, more or less borrowed 

 from Stephens, again shows that, even if the authors had a moth 

 before them when they drew it up, the insect was not J>. piitndella, 

 Schill'.. but D. i/eatiana, Fab. {Brit. Mothn, etc., vol. ii., p. 188, pi. ciii., 

 f. 2, 18.51). 



In conclusion, 1 think Mr. Green is to be congratulated on his 

 discovery that this pretty and variable species is an inhabitant of the 

 British Isles. My very best thanks are due to Mr. Hugh Main for his 

 kindness in supplying me with the beautiful pliotographs from which 

 plate \v was reproduced, and also to the authorities of the Natural 

 History Museum who allowed me to examine the very interesting- 

 series of this species collected from the continent by the late 

 Mr. Stainton. 



Lepidoptera at Digne and La Grave in July, 1909. 



By (Key.) FEA.NK E. LOWE, M.A., F.E.S. 

 Mr. A. H. Jones and myself agreed this summer upon a joint 

 expedition to Digne and to la Grave. At Digne, where we arrived 

 on -July 11th, we had but poor sport considering the well-earned 

 reputation of the place. We have not to record a single species, so 

 far as I know, that is not generally common there. As a matter of 

 fact, insects on the whole were scarce. Of Papilio ale.mnor and Po'-n- 

 oniniotiis inelcnf/er $ , we took respectively rather less than a dozen 

 decent specimens between us. I got one good l'id]iii(inia ei/ea, and saw 

 two or three more ragged specimens, one Hipnarrhia fiilia, but of 

 Satijnis (irtea not a sign, though S. eorrhda in both sexes was tine and 

 common. Jones was more fortunate in securing two good aberi-aut 

 forms of Melitaea diili/nia, but I think we are both of opinion that our 

 visit to Digne resulted in disappointment. It is quite useless to repeat 

 the oft-told tale of things taken or noted. We packed up, therefore, and 

 left on -luly 23rd, arriving at la Grave in the Dauphiny Alps on the 

 24th. This ground has been less exploited, and, though it did not 

 prove " the El Dorado of butterfly life " surmised by our editor (Hut. 

 llerord, ix., p. 202), it was not without considerable entomological 

 interest. We were a fortnight earlier than the date of Mr. Tutt's 

 visit, and also favoured with better weather, but we saw nothing of 

 F.rehia sripw''-, which he reports from the Plateau d'Emparis, " two 



' This was reported through a hipxitu calniiii for Erehia s^ti/ipie, and corrected 

 Fnt. IxL'c. xvii., p. 214. — Er>. 



