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expedition, and found L. amanda, but no A. daphne or K. stijgnc. 

 Towards the end of June Paran/e acliine and Liiiwnitis camilla had 

 become abundant at Aigle, and L. aibijlla was beginning to emerge ; by 

 the beginning of July the latter was also very plentiful, and the 

 specimens this year were unusually large. Dri/an jiajihia was as abun- 

 dant as usual, lasting well into September, and I took early in July 

 one specimen of var. rah'siua. The first Apatura iris I saw this year 

 at Aigle was on July 2nd, and the first I captured on July 11th ; they 

 were common this year, but as usual not easy to catch. The Sepey 

 road is their special haunt. Theda ilich with both its vars., T. qdni, 

 and T. w-albmn were to be found on this road also, but I saw no T. 

 pruni, except one splendid specimen in Mr. Fison's cabinet, which he 

 took near his house at Charpigny, close to S. Triphon station. He 

 has also taken several specimens of T. acaciae in his groiands, one of 

 which he kindly presented to me. Our last expedition to Vernayaz 

 was on July 9th, on which occasion we crossed the valley from 

 Vernayaz station, and, turning to the right after crossing the Rhone, 

 searched the slopes for A. daphne, only one specimen of which, 

 however, we found, the day becoming cloudy soon after our arrival. 

 Only one other expedition from Aigle took place, namely, a search for 

 Laiiipides hoetica on last year's ground on July 19th. This proved 

 entirely unsuccessful, so far as L. boetica was concerned, but produced 

 a fair number of Kveres arf/iaden var. coretas, which are to be found 

 immediately after crossing the Rhone bridge at Branson, on the marshy 

 ground to the right of the path leading down the Rhone bank towards 

 the Cidhttea. Apatura ilia was flying about the poplars in the valley, but 

 only one allowed itself to be caught, and even that one I clumsily let 

 escape while bottling it. On Monday the 23rd we went to Miirren, 

 and setting to work the next morning found a considerable number of 

 insects. Lycaena arum resembles the form of the lowlands, being very 

 bright and clearly marked, with no inclination towards var. obacnra. 

 This fact moreover does not stand alone. The normal form of 

 CIiri/s()]dianiis chri/seis is universal here, even as high up as the 

 Blumenthal, and no sign of the mountain form eurybia is to be seen. 

 So also Krebia Uyea, which is usually found lower, is abundant at 

 Miirren, which is the same height as Zermatt. The first day's captures 

 included PolyoinDiatiis pherete!^ and Erebia oetne (some of which are 

 without spots above and below), as well as those above mentioned ; indeed 

 /-•. pheretes is very common here, especially in the Blumenthal, and I 

 subsequently took several 5 s. On the following days I took Krebia 

 j»«»to in some numbers, and also the var. caecilia, as well as the moun- 

 tain form of K. ntyyne (pirene), in which the spots are greatly reduced in 

 size, producing a somewhat close resemblance to E. oeiiie, the under- 

 side, however, being identical with that of the lowland form. But 

 Friday, the 27th, was my red-letter day, as I w^as fortunate enough 

 to discover what I believe to be a new form of Chrysophantis dorilis, of 

 which I afterwards took a numl^er of specimens, especially in the 

 Blumenthal. Both ^ and $ are entirely brown on the upper side ; the 

 size is very large, the smallest specimens being larger than the largest I 

 have seen of the type, and the largest $ I took being as large as the ? of 

 C. chry^ieis, in fact one of the largest "coppers"! possess, except large 

 specimens of ('. ynrdius, the ? has occasionally a few small orange spots 

 at the edges of the wings and always two black discoidal spots on the 



