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rapae, P. napi, Pontia daplidice, Euchlo'e cardamines, E, euphenoides, 

 Leptosia sinapis, Colias hyale, C. edusa, Gonepterijx rhamni, lasoria 

 lathonia, Brpnthis eaplirosyne, B. dia, Melitaea aurinia, M. pJioebe, M. 

 cinxia, M. didyma, M. deione, M. athalia, M. dictynna var. vernetensis, 

 Pyrameis cardui, P. atalanta, Euvanessa antiopa, Vanessa to, Aylais urticae, 

 Eugonia polyckloros (larvffi), Polyyonia c-album, Lmenitis Camilla, 

 Pararye maera, P. megaera, P. egeria, Epinepliele jiirthia and var. 

 hispidla, E. pasiphae (Molitg), Coenonympha arcania (Vernet), C. 

 pamphilus, Erehia evias. 



The few Heterocera noted included Diacrisia sanio, Macrothylacia 

 rubi, a big J at light at Vernet, Plusia gauima, Ophiodes lunaris, Enclidia 

 mi 3ind E. glyphica, Acontia liictnosa, Venilia maculata, Strenia clathrata, 

 Eidonia conspicuata, and the Anthrocerids mentioned above. I might 

 add that Brenthis selene occurs at Escouloubres, as I have specimens 

 taken there in 1908 by my friend James Backhouse, the well-known 

 ornithologist. The flowers between Axat and Escouloubres, and 

 beyond the latter place to Querigut, were wonderful in their beauty 

 and abundance. Specially noteworthy were the large sulphur-coloured 

 Antirrhinum and purple Alpine Aqiiilegia, and at Querigut wide 

 expanses of white narcissi, reminding one of the hillsides at les Avants 

 in May, 1907. 



Agriades coridon var. constant!, generatio praecox. 



By Dr. J. L. REVEKDIN. 



At the beginning of April, 1906, I found myself on the shore of 

 the Bay of Cavalaire, in the department of Var, and was much surprised 

 to see on the wing a Lycyenid, which was evidently neither Volyom- 

 matus icarus nor Celastrina argiolus ; I captured a ^ , and for the first 

 instant did not know with what species I had to deal, but, on exami- 

 nation, recognised at once that it was Agriades coridon. This A. coridon 

 was so different from the type that we have in Switzerland, whether 

 in the plains or on the Alps, that my doubt was easily explained, the 

 date of my capture, April 6th, being also very surprising, since with 

 us this species makes its first appearance in the first days of July. 



In 1906 and 1908 I took in the same locality, at Pardigon, 

 a series of 120 specimens, of which 15 are 2 s. Monsieur Charles 

 Oberthiir, to whom I showed them, informed me that this very special 

 form of A. coridon was not unknown to him, since he had formerly 

 examined a long series of ^. coridon exactly similar, taken by Alexandre 

 Constant at St. Tropez, a small town on the coast of Var, about 

 twelve kilometres from Pardigon. He told me that Constant had 

 intended to describe and name this form, but had unfortunately died 

 before doing so. M. Oberthiir has strongly urged me to study and 

 describe this variety myself. It is, in fact, in my opinion, a special 

 variety, which, if my information is correct, inhabits the littoral of 

 Var; it is probably the form which Mr. Wheeler found not far from 

 Pardigon, between Cavalaire and le Canadel {Ent. Bee, 1909, p. 186), 

 on May 6th ; and which, as M. Oberthiir informs me by letter, 

 Mr. Powell has taken in the Foret du Dom (Var). At Pardigon, 

 this butterfly flies either on the shore, or by the side of the rail- 

 way that mounts towards the station of La Croix, at a short distance 

 from the shore. In the spring of 1906 and 1908 I took it from 



