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2. Wings black brown witli two small ocelli, black, with white centres, in the 

 upper wing, almost forming a double ocellus, a slight ring of red includes them 

 both ; the lower wing has one ocellus, the upper one in the band, this has also a 

 very faint red border. These ocelli and their red margins are better marked on the 

 inferior surface. 



3. Wings dull brown with no black shade, the twin ocelli surrounded by a 

 broader red margin ; on the lower wing, three ocelli forming a band, each surrounded 

 by a separate red margin. Judging from the short description in Mr. Kirby's 

 " Manual," this seems to be the typical form. It was not, however, the most 

 common. 



4. Wings a dark rich umber-brown with a shade of black ; upper wing with the 

 twin ocelli in the usual place, and round them a somewhat quadrangular patch of 

 red, below these another ocellus, also black, with a white eye, and with a faint margin 

 of red around it ; the lower wings with three ocelli, each in a red ring. 



5. Similar to the last, but the red blotch in both the upper and under winga 

 much larger, so that the patch containing the twin ocelli seems only separated from 

 the red mark around the lower ocellus by a brown vein ; and in the inferior wing, 

 the red forms a submarginal band, divided into three parts by the veins. This form 

 aj^proaches E. Stygne very closely, which latter insect also seems to vary much ; the 

 brown is, however, richer and darker than in any specimen of E. Stygne that I have 

 seen, the ocelli in the inferior wing of Stygne are larger and better marked, and also 

 more visible on the under surface. In E. melas and E. Nerine the under surface of 

 the upper wing is almost all red and not with a red blotch only as in (Erne and 

 Stygne. Probably the forms described as 4 and 5 are the <? var. Hippomedusa of 

 Dr. Staudinger's Catalogue, which he places under Medusa, but adds, " potius ad 

 CEmen referenda." 



Erebia lappona, common on the plain of the Spittelmatt ; its variation did 

 not seem great. E. atliiops, near Kandersteg. E. Ligea, common in all subalpino 

 districts, as Interlachen. This insect has not the jumping flight of our Jauira, as 

 most ErehicB seem to have, but rather the sailing flight of Pararge 3Iegmra. 



Pararge Mara, common ; in alpine districts an aberration with one white 

 eye-spot instead of two in the ocellus of the upper wing was frequent. P. Iliera, 

 local, but where found abundant, in a sheltered opemng in the wood by the Gemmi 

 pass, with Argynnis Euphrosyne. 



E2')inephele Janira. E. Hyperanthns. 



Camonympha Pamj)hiliis. C. Arcanius, var. Saiyrion, common near Kandersteg, 

 but not unstable and showing no approach to the typical form, being in fact a variety 

 and not an aberration. 



Syrichthus Alveus. S. malvce and aberration Taras. 



Nisoniades Tages. Hesperia Sylvanus. 



Sphinx ligustri, Smerinthus populi, Thun . 



Macroglossa stellatarum, abundant. M. lomhyliformis (broad bordered), 

 Giessbach. 



Zygana Erythrus. Z. filipendulcB. 



Hylophila prasinana, near Thun. 



Psyche plumistrella (?). Epichnopteryx sp., plains of Spittelmatt. 



Porthesia chrysorrhcta. Bomhyx rubi, eggs, which developed larvse of this 

 species, on the Brienzer Grat. 



