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We dropped down a watercourse and over the hedge, just in time to 

 see the train coming from the tunnel and hurrying fast on to Arcive. 

 "We had two kilometres yet to go and pursuit was hopeless. We lost 

 the train by some five minutes, and having refreshed ourselves at the 

 little restaurant at the station, set about looking round for something 

 to do until 7.30. We went into the rough fields above the station and 

 added FUbeim an/us [aegon], several Ci/aniris sendarf/us, Cupido 

 iiiininius, C. osin'.s, Poli/oijwwtiia icarus, and other common species to 

 our bag, as well as a single example of Loweia dorilis that fell to the 

 net of Professor Blachier. He also netted an example of ^ P. icarus, 

 on the hindwings of which the orange lunules of the underside showed 

 faintly through on the upperside, but examination with a lens failed 

 to disclose any orange scales on the upperside itself as in the ab. 

 riifopunctatm. We walked on into the village of CoUonges and got 

 tea, and in the meantime the rain commenced again. It came down 

 steadily from 6.80, and we spent the last half hour at the station 

 waiting for the train. As we were there well in advance, the train of 

 course was late, and it was 7.45 before it came into the station and 

 took us homeward, damp and less ardent, into Geneva. How we 

 wished that that quarter of an hour's lateness had been the lot of the 

 afternoon instead of that of the evening train, but regrets were useless. 

 It poured at Geneva, but a hot dinner and a good night's rest soon 

 put matters straight, and our first experience of the wet season of 

 1910 was put in the pigeon-bole of memory, to be stored up as an 

 experience that was past. 



Notes of my Entomological Work during the Summer of 1909. 



By H. POWELL, F.E.S. 

 [Note. — These notes were found among the late Mr. J. \V. Tntt's papers, and with 

 Mr. Powell's kind permission, we publish them. — H.J.T.] 



When I last wrote you I had not decided what was to be done 

 during the summer, but soon afterwards I arranged again with 

 M. Charles Oberthiir to collect for him, but did not start work until 

 June 9th. Between May 1st and that date I had a big task in furnish- 

 ing the United States Government with larvfe (fullfed) of Octieria 

 (Jispar and Spilosowa chrysorrlioea from the Hyeres district. This was 

 not finished when I left on June 9th, but I found an intelligent man 

 here, who carried on the operations until the end of the campaign. 

 Altogether, we sent over 8.50,000 larvae. Mr. Howard told me later 

 on in Paris that the Hyeres larvte were richer in parasites than those 

 from anj^ other locality in Europe, He had consignments from other 

 parts of France, from Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy. 



On June 9th I left for St. Quentin, in the Dept. of Aisne, to look 

 for Chrijsnp/tanns dispar, which used to occur in the marshes of the 

 Somme, but had not been seen for some years. I should say var. 

 riitiliis, but M. Oberthiir calls it 0. dispar, and it seems that the form 

 was nearer the old English dUpar than is var. rutihis from other places. 

 I hunted the marshes at St. Quentin and elsewhere in the Aisne and 

 Aube for three weeks, but came across nothing like dispar or rutilus, 

 although the great dock was common enough in some places. The 

 weather was very bad nearly all the time. At St. Quentin I obtained 

 some information from collectors and relatives of collectors, who had 

 taken it years ago, but it does not appear to have been taken during 



