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fication, belong to our side. On these slopes, too, were the Savoy 

 form of Melitaea didyma, the $ s bright but small, and as different in 

 size from the magnificent Spanish race, whose colour they follow, as 

 from the mountain form, with which they have litile in common in 

 this particular. A few M. cinxia and a single M. phoehe were also on 

 the wing, whilst Anthrocera carniolica, in splendid variety, hung in 

 vain from the flower-heads, there being so little leisure to examine 

 them, whilst^, achilleae was also abundant, though going over. I was 

 very pleased to take, however, three Anthmcrra JKcunda [yenerensis) here, 

 a previous record of its existence on this line of the Juras having been 

 subjected to some degree of doubt. Mr. Blachier took a single example, 

 and the four were at any rate sufficient to satisfy us of its occurrence, 

 if not altogether satisfactory from the collector's point of view. 

 Evidently we did not hit its stronghold, and one must pass the 

 quarries a considerable distance one supposes to reach its headquarters. 

 Polyo)i)motiifi coriidon and P. astrarrhf were the abundant Lycfenids, 

 although a single Cupido sehrns ? was captured, and second-broods of 

 Nisoniade^ tayes and Syrichthus alreus were on the wing. Plenty of 

 Colias hyale, and a few Hi/iparc/iia brisrifi were out on the slopes, but 

 in the wooded boskies the accumulation of specimens was marvellous. 

 Thousands of Knodia dryas, great black fellows, dwarfed the equally 

 abundant swarms of Erehia aetJdops, whilst Pararye iiiaera, P. iiieyaera, 

 Epinephele lycaon, and E. tithonus were only less common ; P. egeria 

 was scarcer, but Epinephele ianira stood on each other, and on every- 

 thing else, to get at the flowers, so abundant were they. Large Pieris 

 rapae and P. napi also swarmed, whilst Gonepteryx rhamni was not 

 infrequent. I stirred up Toxocampa craccae, and I remember lots of 

 Ematurya atomaria (second brood) getting up everywhere. What 

 other insects there were I know not. I lost account of time and place. 

 I filled my boxes and used up all my pins, lost my companions, and — 

 in spite of it all — was happy. What worry I gave them to find me I 

 knew not, and cared less, but when I came on them, and found they 

 had lunched and drank, I began to wonder what the time was as the 

 end of the afternoon was near, so that Muschamp and myself went off 

 to the cottages, a quarter of a mile below, and drank the local wine and ate 

 the local bread and cheese, till nature was satisfied. That I missed 

 two fine Euvanefisa antiopa on the way back was not due, as was mildly 

 suggested by my companion, to the fact that I had lunched, but to the 

 excitement and heat of ■ the day, for that day was hot, and when we 

 got back a similar protest, that I could not hope to take all the 

 parthenie on the slopes and get to Gex in time for the train, was 

 sufficient to keep me on the move. It was a lovely day. When will 

 our City of London and South London Entomological Societies unite 

 to arrange a field-meeting to such a place, where nature is alive and 

 seething ? How many British lepidopterists would join to make a 

 party if arrangements were made, and an interpreter provided to look 

 after matters, and leave them free to hunt? 



On July 27th, a turn after larvte of Turner ia liippuphaes ended in 

 failure, so far as obtaining the desired larvae was concerned. A marsh 

 by the side of the Arve, about a mile or so before it enters the Ehone, 

 covered by thickets of Hippophae rhmnnoidea, sallow and alder, appeared 

 to be a veritable fortress for the retreat of this local and beautiful 

 species. Careful search, however, on the part of Mr. Muschamp and 



