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them, especially as all except Melanar<iiaiialatea were in good condition. 

 Nomiades sennarr/tis, Pohjommatus davinn. P. corydon, P. bellarcjus, P. 

 aleria, Papilio niacJiann, Pieris hrai^sirae, P. rapae, P. napi, Leptosia 

 miapis, Colias hyale, C. edusa, Dryas paphia, AniynnU ar/laia, A adippe, 

 Brenthh dia, Pararr/e moera, Hipparchia newele, Epinephele jurtina, 

 Erebia aetJiiopa and Melanargia rfalatea. 



During the whole of the season Mr. Fison had, as usual, kept me 

 informed of his movements and captures, and some of the latter are so 

 interesting that I cannot forbear to mention them. As I did not see 

 them till after ray return to Montveux, this is not so much out of the 

 chronological order. On Monte Bre, above Lugano, he took, on April 

 16th, five specimens of Libythea celtis, three of which were very worn, 

 as well as PolyommatnH orion, Pararye eyeria var. intermedia, &c. ; but 

 of his spring captures by far the most interesting was a magnificent 

 specimen of P. meyaera var. framraspiea, a form not hitherto reported 

 from Europe, I believe. In June he was in Weesen, and on the 19th 

 took two perfect specimens of ArasrJntia lerana in the Kupfernaseruns 

 gorge, " a sunny, narrow ravine up which the road climbs to the 

 Thalalp See ; " the first " on some garbage in the road, in a spot 

 where all the trees (firs and beeches) had been cut and nettles 

 were abundant," the second at the entrance of the Thalalp cow- 

 pastures. The following day he took two more in the same valley 

 and another couple in the Murgthal. "Of these, four were on the 

 road, one on nettles and one on the grass." "Both valleys were cool 

 and turned to the north." At the end of July and the beginning of 

 August he had interesting experiences with Erebias on the Dent du 

 Midi, but, as I repeated these in propia persona this year, I will not 

 refer further to them now ; I must, hewever, mention the very varied 

 series of Erebia christi, which he brought from the Laquinthal — in 

 some ways the most interesting I have seen — and the magnificent 

 forms of Brentkifi pales from the Dent du Midi, including the dark- 

 banded ? ab. rinctata, Fav., which so far is believed to be unique. 



During the early part of this year (1903), my time was so completely 

 taken up by my book on the Alpine butterflies, which I was hurrying (alas, 

 unsuccessfully) to get out before the summer, that my entomological 

 interests were chiefly confined to correspondence and interviews with ento- 

 mological friends, including a call from Dr. Lang, together with the 

 inspection of various collections ; and in the latter connection I cannot 

 refrain from mentioning a visit in the previous autumn to Geneva, as 

 it procured for me the acquaintance of Professor Blachier, and 

 through him that of M. Gesner-Frey, in whose room at the Museum 

 I was permitted to work. Of the kindness and courtesy of these two 

 gentlemen to one who was then a stranger to them I must not allow 

 myself to speak, as one of them, at any rate, will read these lines. 

 Most of my few expeditions during the spring were made in company 

 with Mr. Sloper. who has already mentioned in the Eutovwloyisfs 

 Fiecord all that was of interest in our captures, except that, on one 

 occasion, at Aigle, on April 29th, a beautiful, fresh specimen of 

 Henperia walvae ab. taras was so obliging as to attach itself to my 

 leg, whence it was speedily transferred to the bottle. At Sion, on 

 May 13th, I found Noniiades eyllarnn, Everes aryiades var. coretas in 

 fair numbers, and Leptosia mtapift var. lathyri, a form which was 

 abundant in the Rhone Valley this year, though I have not previously 



