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upper wings, thus closely resembling the upper-side of C. chri/seis var. 

 euri/lna 2 ', the underside, however, entirely separates it from this, 

 having all the characteristics (as well as the shape) of C. ilorilis. The 

 ground colour of the underside of both sexes is yellow; thee? not being 

 so yellow as var. blensei and the ? not so yellow as the typical 5 . 

 There is scarcely a trace of the orange spots on the underside, except 

 faintly at the anal angle of the lower wing. In this characteristic it 

 approaches var. sithalpina, from Avhich it diliers however in size, and in 

 the entire absence of violet reflections. It is unknown both to the 

 English and native entomologists to whom I have shown it, and I have 

 provisionally named it var. hrunnea, which will not of course hold good 

 if it has been previously discovered and named. I have one specimen 

 of the $ with a good deal of dull copper on the upper wings, thus 

 approaching the type except in size. August 1st was spent in a long 

 expedition through Gimmelwald to the Schmadribach Hotel and back 

 by Stechelberg and Lauterbrunnen. On the way down to Gimmelwald 

 the numbers of Pulyommatns curydun were almost incredible, and P. 

 dorylas and P. hellaryus were also in great abundance. Just below 

 Gimmelwald I saAV two specimens of the deeply coloured Pajiilio 

 iiiarhaon ab. aurantiaca, but was unable to secure them, and, on arriving 

 at the banks of the Weiss-Lutschine, Poh/oiiuttatKs erus and a small form 

 of P. damon were to be seen among the hosts of P. an-ydon. This 

 appears to be an excellent locality, and I should have liked to have had 

 much more time at my disposal. On the 2nd a visit to the Blumenthal 

 produced amongst other things several specimens of the new copper, and 

 a few of the small var. montana of Xowiadcs ach; L'lqndo ininiina var. 

 alsoides is also abundant and very large. On the 3rd a walk on the heights 

 above the Blumenthal produced Melitaea ci/nt/iia $ and a good many 

 specimens of Krehia tijndarufi var. dronnts, a variety which is generally 

 supposed not to be Swiss, but which is the only form in the Miirren 

 district ; Ch. Favre informs me that it is also common at Trient, and 

 his specimens of the ? from that locality are even more strongly 

 marked than those from Miirren ; a day or two later I took several 

 more specimens of this variety. It cannot properly be regarded as an 

 aberration. My only other noteworthy captures were one specimen of 

 Polyuiiniiatit^ uiitilctc on the first day of my visit, and one of the small 

 form njparisstoi on the last. On August 13th we returned to Aigle, and 

 on the 16th went to Charpigny to search for Kpincjthdr tit/unius, a great 

 rarity in Switzerland, and were fortunate enough to hit on the exact spot 

 where it was to be found in numbers, but the 3' s somewhat worn ; a 

 few days later I took one specimen at Aigle. At Charpigny I also saw 

 several ZepJiijrus querciis one of which I took, and a splendid specimen 

 of Z. hetulae ? evidently just emerged. On the following day I made 

 another expedition to Martigny in search of L. boetica, and not only 

 found none, but also discovered that the whole of the Collutca bushes 

 with one exception were completely withered ; I shall look with much 

 interest and no little fear in the spring to see whether, or how far, they 

 have recovered. Close to the Rhone bridge I took a very fine Colias 

 cdm^a ab. lielice, and around the same spot Vlebeius arifits var. ayijywij- 

 novum was as abundant as it had been throughout the summer. This 

 form (unless it be, as has been suggested, a separate species) is by far 

 the commoner from Martigny to Sierre. I looked the same day to see 

 if any second brood of Polymiunatus uriun was to be found, but in vain. 



