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Paiiiplnla comma were not uncommon, and I obtained also two or three 

 specimens each of Thtjmdicu^ tliatnnaa of fair size, and a few very small 

 T. Uneola, but most of these species were worn to rags. On the 9th, I 

 caught a specimen of Citpido miniiiia, and, although I saw no males of 

 P. iJonzelii, on this occasion, I caught two or three ? s on a bank 

 skipping over the flowers, and one of them was in really fair condition. 

 This was the first I had seen since I took two ? s at Larche, ni 1900, 

 the only ones I had before captured. Chrysaphamis var. gordius was 

 evidently over, but C. rinfaureae wiis still in the greatest abundance, and 

 the 5 s of the zermatteims form were most interesting, and I got one of 

 the finest series on the 9th that I have ever taken of any butterfly. 

 Many of the $ s are of the mieiiii type, with the discoidal mark of the 

 forewing outlined in black, but certainly not so distinctly as in those that 

 Dr. Chapman brought from Moncayo, Spain, in 1903. Of the lovely 

 series of ? s, with their differences in shade of ground colour, the varying 

 amount of suffusion, the streaked spots on upper side of forewings, and 

 highly developed row of white or bluish-white spots on hindwings, a 

 separate descriptive and illustrated paper is needed, but they pleased me 

 much, and even now that the newness of the feeling of possession has 

 worn off, I think they are especially interesting. Plenty of Parnassius 

 apollo, and a few still fine Arnynnis adippe ? s, here and there fine 

 fresh Leptosia sinapis, in one place Hipparchia semele, and a <? of 

 Pierh napi, as white as snow, toying with a fine 5 bnjnniae, added 

 variety to the catch, and, if I got nothing rare on these occasions, at 

 least I got a number of interesting specimens. Among the moths 

 were Ai/rotis tritici, Charaeas (/rauiinis, GnopJios dilvcidaria{?), Cidaria 

 immanata, Stenoptilia pterodoctyla (fnsciis), Cidaria populata, and a few 

 others not to be named oft'hand ; but the Anthrocerids were over, and an 

 occasional worn large A. lonicerae, A. achilleae, and A. ochsenheivieri, 

 were left as ghostly remnants of the lovely army that M. Morel told 

 me had a month before brightened the pathsides of the valley. On 

 August 12th I left Saas-Grund for Stalden, and what a lovely day it 

 was. Chri/mphanus riryaiireae still in its amazing abundance but 

 getting passe now, and, in addition, to all the species already noted, a 

 few additions were made, ArgipiniH ai/laia, another single Melitaea 

 dictynna, a,n(l a dark $ M.didyina, seveval Polygonia c-alhum, Syrichthus 

 san, and here and there a specimen of Pararye maera and P. meyaera 

 not quite so bad as its neighbours; I also took more P. donzelii 2 s, and 

 Cupido minima. A few fine fresh Anthrocera transalpina, hitherto the 

 examples had been too worn to notice, and strangely two fine 

 Melanaryia yalatea, all examples of which hitherto seen down the 

 valley had been far too bad to keep, a single Syntomis pheyea which had 

 been abundant in early July, whilst examples of TJtluma lutarella 

 rather of the lower than the higher form, L. caniola (yellowish form), 

 Platyptilia yonodactyla, and Boarmia rcpandata, were picked up as 

 samples by the way. At Balen, the pupae of Pieris brassicae were in great 

 abundance under the fences, and lower down the valley, between 

 Hiiteck and Stalden, three ? sof Pieris var. bryoniae, in one little field, 

 fell to the net. Then Pontia daplidice, Goneptery.v rliamni began to 

 appear. Near the house, where the mulberries grow so deliciously, 

 Flitvane^sa antiopa was on the move, with some worn hipparchia alcyone. 

 To stalk the former in the afternoon sun was fine sport, and more 

 successful than earlier in the daj', when catching is out of the 



