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being beaten out of the hazel and oak bushes. Crossing the fields 

 to Martigny Station, 1 found very little by the way except occasional 

 Alelauan/ia (jalathea and L'tdiaa htjale. In the interval of waiting for 

 the train, I strolled round La Batiaz, but nothing was seen except a 

 few Pararf/e maera and P. iiwciacra. 



The following day brought no improvement in the weather, for the 

 sky was packed with clouds and the temperature was low. After lunch 

 1 went by train to Bex, walking through the fields by the side of the 

 railway to the Gryonne. In the meadows Melananjia (/alathea was in 

 abundance, and I had no difficulty in getting a good series. The ? s 

 were far from common, and there was no variation to speak of. 

 Epinephele ianira was now getting more abundant, and resting on the 

 grass stems were several specimens of " blues," including Agriades 

 thetis, Poli/omwatKs hijla-f, and occasional Aricia astrarche. Near the 

 Gryonne a few fresh MeUtaea athalia were flying in the company of 

 worn ? s of M. parthenie. On some marshy ground near the banks of 

 the Gryonne, Coenonympka iphis, in perfectly fresh condition, was 

 added to the list. Here it was flying in fair numbers with C. pam- 

 philiis : but I had only time to take one or two specimens of C. iphia 

 before the rain came down in so steady and determined a manner as 

 to put collecting out of the question for the remainder of the day. 



(To he continued.) 



:]^OTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARY^, &c. 



Note on new foodplant of Papiijo machaon. — The Papilio 

 Diar/iaon $ s in my butterfly-house this summer readily deposited their 

 ova on some plants of Acj/Ie xepiaria {< 'itrus trifoliata) which I have 

 grown there, and the larvae have fed up on this new pabulum, though 

 much more slowly than on fennel or skimmia. — Cecil Floersheim, 

 B.A., F.E.S., Pennyhill Park, Bagshot, Surrey. 



ir ARI ATION . 



Aberration of EucHLoii cardamines.— I took this year, on June 

 2nd, an aberrant form of Fhu-Idoe canlamines, which I have not any- 

 where seen described. The species is usually so constant that this 

 variation seems to be worth recording : 



(? , of normal size. On the upperside hindwing, the upper margin of the 

 central cell, and the upper four veins radiating from the cell to the margin of the 

 wing, are all strongly marked with bright sulphur-yellow. This does not correspond 

 with the yellow venation which seems to be normally present on the underside of the 

 hindwing, for, on the underside, it appears along the greater part of the margin of 

 the central cell, the basal portions of the radiating veins, and the two free veins 

 near the dorsum. In the specimen here described, the yellow suffusion at the 

 base of the forewing, underside, is perhaps slightly more strongly developed than 

 is usual in English specimens. 



If this form has not been previously described, I propose for it the 

 name ab. sitlfitrenvenata, suggested by Mr. Raynor. — G. L. Keynes, 

 6, Harvey Road, Cambridge. September ISth, 1910. 



Three new aberrations of Abraxas grossulariata, — As I am 

 parting with all my best aberrations of Abraxas urossulariata, I take 

 this opportunity of naming three striking forms which do not fall 

 under any of my previously given varietal names. Within the last 



