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two Hipparchia seniele ; advancing to the left and still rising, I got into 

 a strong wind, and to avoid it bore to the right and kept under the lee 

 of the hill-top. This brought me shortly to the corner of a cornfield, 

 which at its further corner joined a field of vetch, and it was on the 

 rough ground at the edge of these, and especially the latter, that I took 

 a number of species, viz., Plebeins aei/on, t'ob/ontmatiis icarna, P. hylas, 

 P. eros, P. meleacjer, CyaniriH seiniarf/us, Ar/riades coridon, A. bellar(/Hs, 

 Aricia astrarc/ie, Pyraineis cardtii, Ar«iynnis CKjlaia, A. niohe, Issoria 

 lathonia, Colias eduaa, C. Iiyale, Aporia erataeyi, Pieris rapae, P. ergane, 

 Epinephele lycaon, Pararye meyaera, and a Hesperia, which exactly 

 resembles Lacreuze's illustration in the last Geneva Bulletin of H. 

 cirsii, though it has far more white, especially on the lower wing, than 

 any other specimen of H. cirsii that I have ever seen, and I took the 

 species (which was by no means scarce here) to be H. cynarae when I 

 captured it. On returning to the hotel, I saw Euvanessa antiopa and 

 three or four specimens of an Erebia, which was shown by the capture 

 of one of them, to be E. ntyyne in an advanced stage of dilapidation. 

 By far the most noteworthy of these species (except P. eraane, which I 

 had not recognised) was P. e)-os. This species is found everywhere 

 round Koccaraso, from 4,000ft. ; a much lower level than in the 

 Alps, where I have never taken even a stray specimen below 

 6,000ft. ; and rarely below 6,000ft. ; it is of a far deeper and 

 brighter blue than in the Alps, bearing much the same relation 

 in colour to the Alpine specimens, that polonns does to coridon. 

 A. cordion was also peculiar, being very light in colour, and 

 corresponding accurately with Zeller's description of var. a})ennina, 

 though not with his type specimens. It is certainly the palest form 

 apart from the Spanish races that I have ever seen. There was a 

 remarkable absence of the $ s of almost all these species ; P. aeyon 

 and P. icariis were the only Lycfenids of which a ? was to be seen, nor 

 was this sex represented m the Argynnids or the Coliads ; H. semele 

 on the other hand was wholly deficient in J s. On the following day 

 I made my way direct to this same hill-top to the N. of the village, and 

 took in addition to the species already named Erynnis althaeae, Lycaena 

 arion, Pieris napi, Aylais articae and Melitaea parthenie, the latter in 

 some numbers. In the late afternoon we crossed the railway and went 

 towards the woods to the east, but Parcirye macra was the only species 

 to be observed. On Wednesday we took this path again, and here, at 

 more than -1000 feet above sea-level we came upon what Avas apparently 

 a typical English oak-Avood. It is true that the oaks were not of the 

 samespecies as that which is common in England, but as the acorns were 

 as yet quite inconspicuous, the dift'erence in appearance was but slight; 

 the undergrowth consisted of bramble, wild rose, hawthorn and black- 

 thorn, and the flowers of red and white clover and of the common 

 meadow sweet and forgot-me-not all added to the familiarity of the 

 scene. The butterflies dift'ered widel}* from those of the hillside and 

 hill-top to the north. The two Coliads were again present as well as 

 P. aeyon, C. seiniaryus, P. icarus, A. urticae, M. parthenie, P. vteyaera, and 

 P. napi, and it was curious to see P. eros flying about the borders of a 

 nearly flat cornfield at the edge of the wood, but no other species was 

 present which I had met with on the hill; there were, however, Hesperia 

 cartlianii, very small, Auyiades sylranus, Adopaea lineola, Aricia eumedon 

 Polyommattis amandns (I call it so, though if the genus is to be divided 



