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On October 21st, the weather became colder, aud the sky over- 

 cast, so I hastened off to Venice, where it continued warm and 

 sunny ; in fact during the week I remained there not a cloud was to 

 be seen. Venice is not very suggestive o£ collecting any insects 

 beyond mosquitos, which we wish to avoid, yet the island of Lido, 

 which is reached in about half an hour by steamer, affords abundant 

 scope for a day or two's collecting. Along the sunny road which 

 skirts the Adriatic, butterflies were quite numerous, chiefly Colias 

 Edusa and Lyccena Telicanus. 



The following is a list of all the Lepidoptera I noticed, a some- 

 what meagre one, but it must not be forgotten that at the same period 

 in England beyond a stray Vanessa Atalanta or Colias Edusa, scarcely 

 a buttjrfly is to be seen, and even Flusia gamma is absent from our 

 Petunia beds. 



Pier is brassicce, rapcB, and napi, var. napcece, fairly common and fine. 



Colias Hyale, Lido, one or two rather worn, October 23rd ; Edusa, Lido, com- 

 mon and fine, October 23rd ; Edusa, v. Hellce, Lido, one specimen. 



Oonepteryx rhamni, Laveno, October 12th. 



Polyomniatus Phlaas, a large and brilliant form, Stresa. 



Lyccena boetica, Menaggio, but more especially at Stresa, mostly fine ; Telicanus, 

 one specimen in the hotel gardens at Stresa — Stresa is probably the northern limit 

 of this butterfly, as Frey does not include it in his list of butterflies of Switzerland ; 

 at ,Lido this species was not uncommon and fine, October 23rd ; Zephyrus, var. 

 Lycidas — I took a male and female of what I believe to be a second brood of this 

 species, the specimens are not fine, and not so large as the earlier brood. In June, 

 1887, I met with this species {vide Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiv, p. 151) at Stresa. 

 North of the Alps, where this butterfly is so local, probably there is only one brood, 

 but at such a warm locality as Stresa a second brood is not surprising ; Icarus, a 

 few at Stresa, a poor small form, probably a third brood, October 13th. 



Apatura Ilia (v. Clytie ?) , two specimens at Orta, both of which I was unable 

 to capture, as they were flying high and wild. 



Vanessa c-album, Stresa ; Antiopa, October 16th, along the side of the lake 

 between Stresa and Baveno ; whilst working among the little willows I dislodged 

 a perfect specimen of this butterfly, whicli from its torpid condition was on tlie 

 point of going into hibernation. 



Argynnia Latonia, Menaggio, Stresa, &c. 



Pararge Megcera, common and fine, Stresa, October 12th ; ^geria, var. 

 Egerides, Stresa, common, but worn. 



Epinephile Janira, not uncommon, but worn, Stresa, October 16th; as this 

 species makes its appearance at Stresa early in June, one can only imagine tliat 

 these specimens are of a second brood. 



Coenonympha Pamphilus, fine, Stresa, October 12th. 



Sphinx convolvuli, Stresa, a specimen brought to me. 



