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and, as it is evidently very widely spread, for convenience of 

 collectors I would suggest that it should receive the name ab. m/noules. 

 The Val Ferret provided me with a number of 2 s and two ^ h/caon, 

 rejoicing in three eye-spots on forewing being placed thus: (1) ^ 

 between iiij and iii.j, iii^ and iiL„ ivj and iv., ; (2) $ between 

 iii, and iiio, iii,, and ivj, iv, and iv.^. For this insect, one 

 specimen of which has been noted by Mr. Wheeler in Mr. Fison s 

 collection {Buttcy/^ics of SiritzcrUoul, p. 114), I propose the name ab. 

 tr/nrlcri. I have netted several transitional forms of ab. irhcelcri in 

 the Val Ferret, and at Naz, c.;/., (1) ^ right side ab. w/urlcri, and left 

 side (jiinoiilcs .- (2) 2 undersides ab. idwelcri, uppersides normal. Also 

 from the Val Ferret come 7^'. lijca<in, S having traces of light band 

 upperside forewing, and a ? having light band reduced to two circular 

 patches round eye-spots. 



On September 4th, I took, at Geneva, a certain number of very 

 undersized Epincphele Jnrtina, inst ont, the smallest a 5 31mm. only, 

 and others, ^ s 32mm. and 33mm. (The largest I have taken this year 

 near Geneva is a 2 of 54mm.) Of these small specimens, one <? 

 has two large unpupilled eyes, arranged in the form of an 8, 

 surrounded by an orange ring. May not these be a second generation? 

 Towards the end of July, in the neighbourhood of Geneva, I have 

 taken at ditierent times, aberrations nupusa, pallens, scmialba, and 

 erj/iiianthea. 



On the last day of July, at Naz, I took Kpincphdc titlumu^ ab. 

 e.vceasa. The same day I netted a beautiful aberration of Mflitaea 

 parthenie, which has only slight traces of two black bands on the fore- 

 and hindwings upperside, and on the underside only the markings at 

 base of wings remain, the hindwings being of an uniform pale prim- 

 rose colour. Delighted with this catch, and burning to show it ott", I 

 waited for my companions of the net, whom 1 had left behind. Pro- 

 fessor Blachier and his brother soon came up, and exhibited a similar 

 insect, though not quite so beautiful a specimen as mine. The three 

 of us waited for half-an-hour for the missing member of our little 

 band, !Mr. Tutt. Tired of waiting, cooked by the sun, and with a 

 glorious thirst, we then went on to a shady grove and lunched down 

 in a deep hollow, from the very centre of which gushed forth a 

 delicious source of ice-cold water. Having refreshed the inner man, 

 we went back to hunt for our companion, and at last found him near 

 the place where we had first waited for him, massacring whole 

 battalions of M. parthe.nie, and sublimely unconscious of the fact that 

 he ought to be parched with thirst and half-starved. He had some- 

 thing to show us, however, far more interesting than the Parthenien 

 horde, to wit, a few specimens of Antlimcera fausta var. jitciiwla 

 {t/fiu-veyms). I cannot say that these were the very first jacunda ever 

 taken on the Jura mountains, for we had lately heard a report of their 

 having been found near there, but this report lacked confirmation. The 

 known habitat oijucitnda is widening visibly : the Saleve near Geneva, 

 the Grisons, two or three places in the Valais, then, in 1901, I dis- 

 covered it on the slopes of the Vanil Noir in the Gruyere, and now at 

 the foot of the Jura. It is very curious to note that the type A. 

 faxsta is found on the Jura at Tramelan (Bernese Jura), and that 

 these burnets are more richly coloured, and larger there than in the 

 south of France ! That the two extremes should thus so nearly meet 



