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at Aix-les-Bains, and I believe also at Bourg St. Maurice. A few male 

 specimens of a beautiful blood-vein, the name has escaped me for the 

 moment, and a few of h'libolia hipunctata were observed, and a couple of 

 examples of Acontia liirtiiom and one of Enntjrhia acta timet data were 

 taken, whilst a specimen of Afirophila trabcalis and a few males of 

 Heliothia fUpsacea at the flowers showed that these species were just com- 

 ing out. Coming down from the slopes, a piece of stubble with the clover 

 growth already well advanced, showed a few males of Colias edusa in 

 first-class condition, and a single pale yellow female, worn, ovipositing ; 

 a single Anii/nnis latlwnia was also apparently ovipositing in the same 

 field, but I failed to find her eggs. Whilst standing on the slopes a 

 Satyrns alcyone was attracted by my light coat, and repeatedly settled 

 thereon, but it insisted on settling on my back and so easily eluded the 

 net; a few examples caught later were very unequal in condition, some 

 good and others in very bad condition, although this one was 

 quite perfect. Colias ht/ale was almost as active as its congener, C. 

 ediisa, but a couple paired, the ,^ carrying the $ , were certain prey, 

 whilst another $ went to Mr. Dollman immediately on my return to 

 Annecy for him to try for ova. It is worth noticing that a fine freshly- 

 emerged female Tephrosia bintnrtata (civjiiixriiUiria) was taken on the 

 trunk of a plane tree in the Avenue du Paquier, but a close search 

 revealed no more. I have before stated that the odonatist would have 

 a good time. One vicious dragonfly was quite abundant on the road 

 by the lake side, but so active that, although I .knocked down one or 

 two, they quickly got away, and I have brought no specimen home for 

 recognition. I thought the insect was Cnrditlct/astfr annulatu^, but I 

 may have been mistaken. A beautiful blue-bodied species, Evallai/ina 

 (■i/athii/ernui, was exceedingly abundant on the clover fields near the 

 lake, mostly flying tandem in the morning sun, the ^ attached by the 

 last segment to the prothorax to the 5 , some, however, fully paired in 

 this habitat. The ? s of this species are dimorphic, one form, blue, 

 having a black abdomen with narrow bands and sides, the other black 

 with narrow green bands and sides. The immature form of this 

 species was sure to attract attention, occurring all over the slopes and 

 in the fields, its wings shimmering like molten silver in the sun as 

 it took short weak flights from one stem to another. A beautifully 

 brilliant form of the male of Caldptcri/.r splcndfiis was sunning itself 

 on the vine leaves. 



One may add that on .July 25th, at Aix-les-Bains, insects were 

 fearfully backward and rare, and one suspects that the cold weather 

 we experienced in Britain, in spring and early summer, has been 

 general over most of south-eastern Europe. Mdauayi/ia (/alat/ica in good 

 condition, Knodia liypcrantJms and KpiiiepJiclc tithojiits only just out, 

 the second broods of Lcptidia sinapis, ('ulias hijalc and Melitaea n'n.cia 

 represented by two or three specimens only, and a single example of 

 what I have always supposed to be M. athaiia, instead of the swarms of 

 these species usual at the end of July, were all in the nature of an 

 unsatisfactory surprise. The second brood of C/iri/sopJianus don'lis 

 was well out, and a single <y of Polyovimatua bcllaryiis. The 

 Anthrocerids were all remarkably scarce compared with their usual 

 amazing abundance here, whilst many generally common species 

 were not seen at all. 



