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precipitous sides of the porphyry mountains, but had -we not been 

 living in the rain since August 2nd, and did we not want drying body 

 and soul. Indeed, we got all the drying we wanted on August 6th-7th, 

 1909, and they were poor, parched, thirsty souls that called for a drink 

 on the return to Botzen after about eight or nine hours' work each day 

 at the entrance of the baking Sarnthal. 



It appears remarkable, as well as fortunate, that one of those 

 species about which we had been writing so much the previous six 

 mouths, FA-eres alcetas, and which we had lately been sifting from its 

 near neighbour, PJveres anjiades, was one of the first species observed, 

 and, as it was evidently just out, we took pains to get a nice long series 

 of both sexes, hardly long enough we venture to think now we have 

 them at home for all possible necessities. The species occurred on 

 thickly overgrown weedy banks, where leguminous plants of various 

 species were abundant, the 3 s flitting strongly above the taller plants 

 and settling well up on the topmost points, the $ s less active, but 

 still prominent enough, often settling in front of the 3 s, when their 

 hindwings rapidly moved wheel-like, and then scurrying off through 

 the herbage to rise higher as soon as free of the undergrowth ; in 

 another place, where the Talfer had got over its usual banks and 

 silted up a great bed of loess, now largely covered with willow, 

 epilobium, coarse grass, and other herbage, at the foot of the wooded 

 bank sloping from the roadway to the river, a tall, bare-looking 

 leguminous plant, with minute white flowers, was the attraction, and 

 above these Evcres alcetas gambolled like Celastrina artjiolas, and here, 

 strangely enough, the latter species was not uncommon above the 

 trees, and we netted two or three 3 s. On the level loess flat, I'lati/tcs 

 alj)i)ielliis, Kndiitnclia fhuinnealis, Cledeobia angustalis, Pyraiista 

 purpiiralis, Acidalia ornata, and many other species were not 

 uncommon, and samples of each were taken. Here also a fine large 

 form of Plebeius ari/ijroiimniion was captured ; whilst a second 

 brood of Sn)litantides orinn, small, and the very antipodes of the 

 splendid large black form, ma(/ninca, occurring about the same time in 

 the Vaudois Valleys of Piedmont, Avas already worn. Polyoniniatus 

 melcat/er was not uncommon, the ? , inclining to the steveeni form, but 

 with the bases of the wings sprinkled with blue scales, the discoidal 

 spots edged with pale, and the outer margin with a marginal and sub- 

 median row of pale lunules, and hence rather a form inlenuedia than 

 real sterecni. I'oli/onniiatiis icarxs was also common, the $ s without 

 blue scaling, one J" of the icariniis form; the only other "blue" appeared 

 to be P. Jti/las, g s only being captured, the species evidently only just 

 coming out. High up round an ash-tree flew many llithys ijuercus, of 

 which only one J was taken on this and another the following day. 

 Until icia pitlaeas and Loireia alciphron var. ijordias were the only 

 " coppers" observed, the specimens in each case, perhaps, represent- 

 ing a partial second-brood, which was certainly the case with several 

 ISisoniades taf/cs which we picked up. On the other hand, Ainjiades 

 sylraniifi and Coenomjmplia arrania were still on the wing, the former 

 in not at all satisfactory condition, although the latter were not bad ; 

 the specimens were small, however, and we had an idea that the Botzen 

 examples taken in June were larger. Leptosia sinapis was abundant, 

 freshly-emerged, and very vai'iable in size, the 3 s with strongly-black 

 apical tips. There were plenty of examples of Melanaii/ia ijalatlua 



