210 THE entomologist's record. 



we came to a rough piece of waste land that opened into a sort of gully, 

 running apparently almost directly up to the Col du Torrent above, 

 and was continued down to the cliff that here forms the boundary of 

 the Val d'Herens on its eastern side. Possibly no finer piece of 

 unbroken alpine pasture land, leading directly from a height of 5700 

 feet to the skrees and rocks above at 10000 feet, could be imagined, and 

 here, as a matter of fact, the highest alpine species with a few strokes 

 of their powerful wings can fly from the upper levels, and may 

 occasionally be found mixing with the natives that swarm in the choice 

 corners of the lower levels, and thus BrentJm pales, Colias phicomone 

 and Cleof/ene lutearia were to be found with Brenthis ino, Issoria lathonia, 

 Parari/e niaera, Epinephele iamra, E. lycaon, Erebia aethiops, E. euryale, 

 E. Rtygne, Melitaea athalia, Pohjouiviatiis corydon, P. damon, Syrichthiis 

 alveus, T anessa to and Colias hyale. On the scabious here, by turning 

 over the leaves, larvae of Heniaris tityus, and on the (raliuni, larvse of Seda 

 stellatarum , could be easily found, whilst those of Arctnuiysrh euphorbiae 

 var. montivaya were also observed. On the sallows growing in the lower 

 part of the gully, larvte of C'erura n'niila and Clostera piyra were in some 

 numbers, whilst, on the particular morning noted (August 10th) , the walk 

 down the zigzags in the full glare of the sun at noon was something to be 

 remembered. The thistle-flowers were teeming with insect life, and one 

 could only choose the best of the insects as one passed, a difficult matter 

 even then, because of the abundance of some of the sTpecies— -Epinephele 

 lycaon, E. ianira, Erebia stygne, E. ligea, E. nielampiis, Chrysophanusvir- 

 gaitreae, ('. hippothoe (worn), Thyxielicus lineola, Pa mphila comma, Poly- 

 onimatKS eras, P. corydon, P. escheri, P. damon, P. hylas, P. astrarche, 

 ( Joenonymplta var. darwiniana, Argynnifi niobe, A. aglaia, A. adippe, 

 Pyrameis cardni, and Vanessa io. Among the C. virganreae, was one very 

 snfl'used, almost uniformly dusky, whilst P. corydon of obsolete forms 

 on the underside, were not uncommon. The silver-spotted form of 

 Argynnis niobe, as well as var. eris, was not uncommon. Adscita geryon 

 was the only " forester," Andi Antlirocera achilleae, theonl}^ Anthrocerid 

 considered worthy of capture; several Lithosia lurideola were on the 

 flowers, and Eubolia bipunctata was disturbed in great numbers. 



(To he concluded.) 



Notes on collecting in Egypt. 



By (Rev.) 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.H., &c. 



Mr. P. P. Graves' paper on the above subject (ni Ent. Record, June 

 loth, 1905) has interested me much, as, certainly in respect to lepi- 

 doptera, my experience many years ago seems to have been pretty 

 much what his was now recently. Mr. Graves gives no list of the 

 species, or number of species, approximately, that he met with — nor 

 have I ever done so, in fact, excepting the Micros and a few others, 

 mine have never been properly worked out. There are rather over 

 100 species in all. The time when they were captured was from 

 January 18th to April 27th, 1864, and the ground worked over was 

 from Alexandria to Assouan, during the usual routine of a Nile trip in 

 a Dahabeah. My principal attention was paid to Arachnida (spiders, 

 Sic), but I collected all orders of Insecta — coleoptera and hymenoptera 

 being, in the result, the most numerously represented. Excepting 

 the lepidoptera, I retained none of the Insecta, all the best having 



