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patta came up one after another to investigate the buckthorn bushes. 

 I walked along the bank, but soon had to leave it owing to the blasting 

 operations that were proceeding a few yards further on, but not before I 

 had seen several ? Thestor bnlliis flying busily about the Lotus hisju'dus. 

 Having reached the pathway again, a corner covered with bushes and 

 lovely flowering Cistus and Genista was soon reached, and, over these, 

 ('i/aniris arijiolas, Callophrijs riihi and T/icstor ballus were in abundance, 

 whilst, on the pathway, I netted several SpilDthyrnaalcaeae. Investigat- 

 ing the pines that were behind this piece of ground led me to find Paranjf 

 fijen'a, whilst Lrucopliasia .si)iaj)is was not uncommon, and I captured a J 

 Pieria napi, the first I had seen, whilst a single 2 h'Au-hlor rartlaniinrs 

 was also taken. Many G. cleopatra were now seen, and, as I tramped 

 along the rough ground between two cultivated patches on the right, I 

 put up a Thais medesicaste, whilst an occasional <? h'ncldoc eitphenoidi's 

 enlivened the scene. But a little entomological goldmine was found 

 about a hundred yards farther on. This was an old overgrown quarry, 

 full of thyme, lavender, cistus, and other aromatic plants. With the 

 first stroke of the net here I captured two Thais medesicastc (the last I 

 saw at Carqueiranne), and I soon came across Toli/otuinatus baton, 

 unfortunately many were worn, and here I captured my first NoDiiadi's 

 mdanops of the season, whilst Thestor balliis could be called common ; 

 Colias edusa, chiefly males, appeared to love this corner, but straight 

 through the quarry flew numerous examples of Anthorharis helia, in the 

 best of condition, variable in size, but mostly rather small, and show- 

 ing considerable variation in the size of the discoidal spot and the 

 intensity of the black apical mark, some of which are quite pale-grey. 

 For Pontia daplidicc var. bellidire the road was the best locality, and 

 many a fine male was swept down, although females were exceedingly 

 scarce. An occassional big Papilin podalirins swung lazily on the thyme 

 blossom, but P. machaon, of which I saw several, was not to be caught, 

 and the attempt to put salt on their tails failed in every instance. 

 About a mile along the road where the latter goes into the woods, 

 Gmiepteri/x cleopatra was quite common, the females diving deeply into 

 the scrubby bushes to lay their eggs, whilst male Satnnua pavonla 

 were in great abundance, dashing wildly about and making one long 

 for a virgm ? to bring them within reach. At the cornf^r where the 

 road enters the wood one finds plenty of A. belia and /'. daplidirr, in 

 fact, it appeared to be the best spot along the road, roli/onnnatiis 

 baton occurs all the way along, here and there commonly. At the top 

 of the ridge just before the road dips down to go on to Hyeres, is a 

 path to the right. This I did not take. Mr. Raine later told me that 

 by not doing so I most likely missed half the fauna of Carqueiranne. 

 Such are the fortunes of war. From here we retraced our steps, and 

 filled our boxes, but without coming across any fresh species. March 

 •Slst was a bright, sunny day, but a terrific wind was blowing ; a walk 

 up the Toulon road was a failure, scarcely a " white " even was seen 

 anywhere ; it was totally blank for entomology, except that I counted 

 over 200 pupje of Pieris brassicae perched tightly under the coping of 

 a stone gate post in front of a villa on the main road. The morning 

 of April 1st was dull, and 1 walked from Hyeres so as to strike the 

 point at which our exploration terminated on March 80th. Nothing 

 fresh was observed under the woods along which we made our w.iy, 

 except a single Thais pol;/.rena, nor did the sun tome out in more than 



