.58 [August, 



tlie Bernese Obei-land : my health permitted me to do very little in Entomology, but 

 it is perhaps a duty to record that little, and this leads me to send the following list 

 of my captures with a few remarks on them to this Magazine. 



Papillo Ilachaon and Podalirius, both tolerably frequent. One day I saw a fine 

 $ Fodalirius busily depositing eggs on a sloe bush. 



Parnassius Apollo, common, especially so at Interlachen ; the mode in which 

 this insect folds its wings in complete repose is very peculiar, thoy are quite as much 

 closed as in an ordinary Geometra. 



Apoi'ia cratcegi, most abundant. 



Pieris brassicx. P. rupee. P. napi : above a certain elevation, the females of 

 this species seemed to me to assume the form hryonim as their typical condition ; 

 about half-way between Frutigen and Kandersteg for example, the ? napi was no 

 longer seen, but iryonicB was abundant ; at the Chalets of Spittelmatt I caught a 

 pair, the male was exactly similar to oui* spotless spring form, the female was a dark 

 bryonicB : nowhere did a dark male fall under my observation. These one-sided 

 sexual varieties are certainly worth careful study ; they have their parallel in the 

 normal state of some insects, — thus no one could doubt that the males of Ocneria 

 dispar and O. detrita were congeneric, yet how complete is the change in the female 

 dispar ; in some of the species of the genus AnthocTiaris, on the contrary, the $ 

 alone deviates from the type. P. Callidice, Lammeren glacier moraine. 



Anthocharis cardamines and Leucophasia sinapis, both abundant. 



Collas Hyale. Oonepteryx rhanini. 



Thecla ruhi. Polyommatus Hippothoe (L.), the specimens of tliis insect were 

 small and rather dark, it occurred near Frutigen, near Thun, and again at the 

 Giessbach. 



Lyccena Mgon, very plentiful. L. Astrarclie : of this species, only one was taken 

 between Frutigen and Kandersteg ; its only red spots are the tlu'ce nearest the anal 

 angle of the inferior wing, it approaches, therefore, very nearly to the aberration 

 Allous. Lyccena Icarus. L.lellargus. X. «n'H»»M5, most abvmdant ; at a small wet 

 piece of moss by the path side, I counted, one hot day, fifty specimens, then, losing 

 my reckoning, I gave up, but there must have been at least twice the number, all of 

 this species within two or three square inches. L. semiaryus, common. L. Arion. 



Limenitis Sibylla, Griessbach, Interlachen. 



Vanessa comma, one bad hibernated specimen at the Giessbach ; the next day 

 I found the curious larva on nettle at Spiez. /'. polychloros, larvse and pupaa 

 abundant. V. lo, larvee at Lucerne. 



Melitcea Dictynna and Athalia. 



Argynnis Euphroxyne. A. Dia. A. Aglaia. 



Melanargia Qalathea, very abundant everywhere in the low lauds. 



JErebia Medusa, the typical form of tliis insect occurred in a wood near Spiez. 

 E. (Erne : I had great opportunities of examining tliis insect, as it was abundant 

 between Kandersteg and the Altels ; my impression is that the higher the altitude 

 (speaking in general terms) the darker the insect, but this, from my specimens being 

 mixed, cannot be verified ; the following forms may be noted : 



1. Wings entirely black-brown, no ocelU. The darkest specimen has one faint 

 red bordered ocellus on the reverse side of the inferior wing. Save in size and 

 slightly in shape, these examples resemble E. Manto var. Ccecilia almost completely. 



