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alee a e and Xisaniudea tat/rs, freshly-emerged, were also taken. Augiades 

 sylvanus was going over, but Urbicola comma was only just emerging, 

 and not yet common. Single examples of Polyommatus meleager and 

 P. hylas were taken, but even /'. icarus was far from being abundant, 

 although common, whilst Aricia astrarche was rare, and an occasional 

 Nomiades s< midrgus occurred. One suspects it would form a good locality 

 for Hipparchia arethusa later, but only two or three quite freshly-emerged 

 males were noted. The common "blue" of the district was Agriades 

 corydon, but Plebeius argus bad evidently been common, and one mud- 

 patch, where the water ran over from a trough into the road, was a 

 veritable trap for newly-em6rged male /'. aegon, the only place where the 

 species was observed. On some tall thistle-blossoms, growing high among 

 the straggling willow-bushes by the side of the stream, Dryas paphia, 

 Argynnis adippe, and Papilio podalirius, mostly large worn examples, 

 disputed for place with Hipparchia briseis, Vanessa io, V. atalanta, and 

 swarms of E. tithonus, E. lycaon, E. ianira, Enodia hyperanthus, worn, 

 and Melanargia galathea, whilst, by getting down into the bed of the 

 stream, one found Hipparchia semele with H. alcyonc on the rocks 

 beneath the bushes, and swarms of A. corydon on the uncovered sand 

 at the side. Limenitis Camilla was seen, large worn (or torn) specimens, 

 suggesting the first, and not, as one might suppose, the second, brood. 

 At the same time a fullfed larva of Papilio podalinus was discovered. On 

 the stony slopes under, and by the side of, the tall railway arches, a 

 flowering elder attracted swarms of common species, of which No->'d- 

 mannia ilia's and Satyrus alcyone were perhaps the best; whilst, on the 

 stonework itself, two species of Catocala were not uncommon. On the 

 thistle-flowers, here, too, were observed Lithosia com plana and L.pygmaeola 

 of the lowland type, whilst a little farther along the path, on a lavender- 

 covered bank, most of the insects of the district were in abundance, less 

 so, however, than in an adjacent field, which, apparently planted with 

 potatoes, was covered with a wilderness of wild flowers, of which 

 thistle and teasel were among the chief, and where Acidalia rubricata 

 I. corata (?), closely aXlie&toornata, Acontialuctuosa, Agrophilatrabealis, 

 Heliothis dipsaceus, etc., were not infrequent. The most surprising 



here, however, was the absence of Anthrocerids, two or three 

 exam h of Anthrocera Jilipendulae, and A. carniolica being all 



that : t bin our observation. Just beyond this, the ground 



alters, and the sloping banks are covered with rose-bushes, birches, 

 hawthorns, viburnum, etc., and here a discovery was made. Pushing 

 my way through the bushes, I disturbed a "plume," which, being 

 followed up, proved to be Encnemidophorus rhododactyla, and 1 at 

 once remembered mj previous capture of this insect at La Grave, 

 another Dauphine* locality, although at a considerably greater eleva- 

 tion, for Clelles is only some 2700ft., whilst the La Grave locality 

 Was fully 5000ft. This " plume," however, roused the old instinct, 

 and I soon found out how to get /•,'. rhododactyla in the daytime, a 



i that 1 was never able to achieve in the old days in Ch 

 Woods, before the "collector" had there set his seal upon it. On 

 the slopes, too, Merrifieldia tridactyla (tetradactyla) occurred, and a 

 single specimens of Wheeleria xanthodactyla was also disturbed, whilst 

 Nordmannia ilicis ah. cerri became quite common on the late bramble- 

 blo 30m, but already they were badly worn. Farther up, the oak-scrub 

 developed into well-developed trees, and here Bithys quercits was not 



