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about, but worn to shreds. A brood of Paratije niegaera was found in 

 one corner on the road, mostly of the a/iieiorellata form at the apex, but 

 some with a third ocelhis below the others — triocellata. A very 

 characteristic dark 3 form of Epinephele ianira, with one small apical 

 eye on the upperside (and underside) of the forewings, and two very 

 marked ones on the underside of the hindwings (biocellata), and a 

 race of E. lycaon with the basal two-thirds of forewings dark, 

 were just emerging, and a single Enodia dn/as was disturbed, 

 suggesting that this species also was just commg out ; a single 

 Erebia liijea was captured, whilst Melitaea didijuia was not infrequent, 

 but worn. A magnificent $ of what we suspect must be a very large red 

 form of M. trivia, we are not able satisfactorily to place. Now and again 

 a newly-emerged, but small-sized, Issoria lathonia found itself in the 

 net, and, in one place, we found several Breyitlm daphne, which must 

 have been very abundant early in the season in the valley, but was now 

 over, as also appeared to be Vararge maera, FJnodia lii/peranthas and 

 Parair/e egeria, the latter suggestive of the intermedia form. Of the 

 common whites, one $ I'ieris napi is interesting in its huge size and 

 wonderfully large black spots on the forewings, although it is not of 

 the creamy ground colour expected of the ? s of this species in this 

 district. Up and down the main road Iphidides podalirias floats with 

 inimitable grace ; the S Lastiocanipa ijitercii^ are rich deep chocolate in 

 tint, mad as usual, and making a rare fuss when they have flown into 

 the net. Fapiiio machaon, of large size, now and again shows it.self, and 

 the I'aniassins apollo are not abundant though large. Of the fritillaries 

 Driiafi paphia and Arfii/nnis adippe are the most abundant, the former 

 exceedingly fine and large, especially the J s, with an occasional ab. 

 ralesina. One of the most beautiful insects in the valley is Anthrucera 

 ephialtes, of steel-blue ground colour, forewings with five (rarely six) 

 spots, white, except the two basal which are cream-coloured, hindwings 

 with one white spot, abdomen with one yellow ring round the middle. 

 One would think one would know these anywhere — and a mile away. 

 We thought we did. They love the thyme-flowers, and, as they sit 

 thereon, one can pick them up with finger and thumb and examine them 

 at leisure. We saw, on the morning of August 6th, a clump of thyme 

 blossom with several busily sucking the nectar; we gently swept 

 the net over them, enclosed the lot, and sat down to look at 

 them at leisure; result — one Ant/imcera ephialtes and six of a 

 hymenopterous species that we had mistaken for the burnet. We 

 were interested; everywhere up the valley the two occurred together, 

 the Hymenopter always more abundant than the Anthrocerid. 

 The Hymenopter is steely blue-black, no spots on wings, two 

 yellow rings round abdomen, nothing like the Burnet when in the 

 collecting box, yet, till we made an actual close examination, or 

 rather looked carefully, we couldn't tell t'other from which, and have 

 no doubt that one or other, the moth probably, gains protection 

 from the similarity. We came across Satyrus hertnione but could 

 not catch them ; rather, only a few of them and then they were 

 mostly broken; what fine fellows these are, and what an education 

 they have had in artfulness. We spent many hours at the entrance to 

 the Sarnthal and we had boxed we did not know what, and we knew 

 someone would ask us some day what we thought of the Sarnthal, but 

 we had never lifted our eyes to the sky, nor to the river, the trees nor 



