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One further visit 1 paid to Eclepens, on August 4tli, in hopes of 

 finding more iS'. circc l)uc in vain. In the marshy fields close to the 

 station in the direction of La Sarraz, I found, however, a considerable 

 number of L. areas : they were mostly worn, but one or two females 

 were still in excellent condition ; this was of course very late, but 

 Professor Blachier has reported this species from Divonne for August. 

 The specimens wnre very large, and I do not think it very likely that 

 they represented a 2nd brood. Twice at the beginning of the following 

 week I saw Sati/nis rirce in the street at Montreux, quite close, but on 

 neither occasion had I a net. At Charpigny, on the 10th, the usual 

 2nd broods were abundant, including vast numbers ot MeUtaea parthenie. 

 Kpiiu'phele jiirtiiia was present in swarms, with much variety of colouring 

 in the females on the underside, and K. tithonus was as numerous as 

 usual in this its one locality in the Rhone Valley. 



Starting the next evening to Sierre I walked on the following morning 

 up the Val d'Anniviers as far as Vissoye. Near Niouc I took Satyrux 

 alrtjone and S. >>tatili)iiis, and Hippaichia seiiirh', and at Fang one female 

 Zepliijrus hetalav : but butterflies were not plentiful till near Vissoye, 

 when ParnaNfiiiis apullo and the three large Argynnids appeared in some 

 numbers, just before reaching the village a few S Cliyi/wpJunt us riiyaKreae. 

 and many female \av. zeniiatti'nsis were found resting on the flowers of 

 the mint, where they were still abundant in the afternoon. The next 

 day I walked on to Zinal, but saw very few insects until the last mile 

 or so, when Krebia tijndariis, Ilrspcria ali-rxx and H. serratulae and 

 I'aiiipldla com ma became abundant as well as the large Argynnids ; 

 there were also a few ErebkKjoante, and E. eitri/alc. On the 15th, a walk 

 up the Alp Arpitetta produced one ? Poh/nmmattis dunzcUi, Parnassius 

 apollo, very &\\iQl\,'Nomia(h's semiaryiis var. montana, and i> rent liis pales, 

 together with the three Hesperiids and the three Erebias taken at Zinal. 

 I also found, near the latter place, an ideal spot for Brenthis ino, where 

 no doubt Chanoine Favre had taken his var, zinalensis, but the species 

 must have been over. On the following day I went to the top of the 

 Corne de Sorrebois, where ]\1. Wullschlegelhas taken various interesting- 

 things, but towards the top I saw only Krehia i/on/e and K. tyndarus ab. 

 caecodromus, lower down Parnassius deliiis and one specimen which 

 might perhaps be a hybrid with P. apollo, in company with Ihenthis 

 pall's : lower still a specimen of Mditaea aurcUa, and a number of 

 Polyovimatas donzelii $ and 2 , most of which were unfortunately 

 getting worn, and also a fe^\■ Erebia yoante. The most remarkable 

 sight was the laden bushes of wild red currants, the fruit being quite 

 as large as one sees on ordinary garden plants in England, and 

 immensely more abundant. On the 19th, I walked down to Sierre, but 

 took nothing on the way which I had not seen on my way up, and 

 with my return to Montreux the same evening niy butterfly >eason 

 practically closed. It is now so seldom that I take a new species in 

 Switzerland that the capture this year of Ihriithis thurr, J'olyommatiis 

 doii-elii 5 , Erercx aryiadcs. type, Ijampidcs tdicanux, Miditaea bi itomartis^ 

 h'/rcbia Jiarofasciata, Satynis cin-i^ and the Apaturid forms rlyfic, fos, 

 iliadcs and iolc, make this season a nicmocable one, notwithstanding 

 the failure to meet with I h tcrnfitrrus nnir/dims. 



