THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



SECOND SERIES— VOL. XV. 



[VOLUME XL.] 



NOTES ON EREBIA CHRISTI AND OTHER LEPIDOPTERA, 

 PRINCIPALLY FROM THE LAQUINTHAL. 



BY A. HUGH JONKS, F.E.S. 



Haviiif]; derided with uiy friend Mr. P. C. Lemann, of Plymouth, 

 to visit Switzerland once more, the Laquinthal, the locality for Erehia 

 chritifi, was suggested. 



Arriving at Brigue on July 13th, the following day we started for 

 the village of Simplon ; nothing of particular interest was noticed en 

 route, except the abundance of the usual butterfly life between Brigue 

 and Berisal. We arrived at the village of Simplon at about eight 

 o'clock, and were glad to meet the Rev. George Wheeler, and to hear 

 that he had taken Erehia christi. Full of great expectations, we 

 started the following morning for the Laquinthal. On the high road 

 at the entrance of the valley, a known locality for E. e^'iphijle, I 

 secured a beautiful specimen of this butterfly, but we considered it 

 unwise to linger. The path diverges to the right, and about a mile 

 and a half up the valley commences the collecting ground for E. 

 christi. The day was fine, and butterflies very numerous, principally 

 E. ceto, inne>stra, goante, A nmathusia and euphrosyne, but E. 

 christi was certainly not common. I captured five specimens, and 

 my companions did little, if any, better. The next day we again 

 visited the valley, but I only added three specimens to my number. 

 Although the day was far more perfect than the preceding one, yet 

 there was a marked falling off in the number of butterflies. They 

 had no doubt sought a safe retreat from the bad weather which was 

 about to follow, the atmospheric ct)nditions of change having [los.sibly 

 been conveyed to them. 



iUABY, 1904.. 



