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and after a hurried lunch I went on direct to Bex where I had arranged 

 to meet Mr. P'ison, who duly appeared at the station and went on with 

 me in the train to St, Triphon, whence we walked back together to the 

 banks of the Gryonne, Pieris rapae, Islelanaryia galatea, and Epinepluie 

 jitrtina being the only species to be seen in the fields. At the banks 

 of the Gryonne he left me and returned to Bex, the heat being very 

 great, and I spent some two hours in this, one of my favourite haunts 

 when Switzerland was my home. Here again the species in evidence 

 were comparatively very few, though in a few cases the specimens 

 were fairly numerous. The three species already mentioned were very 

 common, as were also Aniynnis aijlaia and Pieris napi ; P. brassicae, 

 Colias ediifia, C. hijale, Leptosia sinapis, and Plebeiiis arm/rorpionon, ^ S- 

 only, were fairly frequent, and I took a couple of Hirsiitina dauion, 

 $ s of course at this date, and saw a couple of Breiithis dia and a few 

 PoUjowwatits warus. My other captures consisted of a 2 Melitaea 

 atJudia, and a very beautiful light $ of M. dictynna ; the spots of the 

 upper-side are very pale, and on the forewings, underside, are two 

 rows of spots inside the white lunules, the costal portions of which are 

 quite white, becoming pale fawn towards the inner margin, while the 

 whole of the light bands of the hindwing, including the lunules, are 

 as silvery as those of the Argynnids usually are. 



On returning to tea with Mr. Fison at Bex, I found Mr. and Mrs. 

 Temperley with him, the former of whom gave me a couple of notes 

 on the subject of Pamassius mneiiwsyne, which he requested me to make 

 known ; vi::. (i.) that he had taken two or three specimens at Berisal 

 in which the discal spots of the forewing are joined by a bar (ab. 

 halterea, Muschamp), and (ii.) that the ab. niibilosa, Christoph, in 

 which the transparent margins of the forewings contain a conspicuous 

 row of white spots, becomes a local race in the Binn Valley, where 

 every specimen taken in 1910 was of this form, both in June in the 

 lower, and in July in the upper part of the valley. 



The following day I went over to Martigny, principally to see 

 M. Wullschlegel. His many English acquaintances will learn with 

 regret that he is still completely paralysed and quite speechless, though 

 very pleased to receive visits, and able to understand everything said 

 to him ; he has so far recovered that he is able to read, though not to 

 write, and the doctors have some hopes that he may recover his speech. 

 I went up to La Batiaz, where I saw Melitaea athalia, one or two 

 Pamassius apollo, a few Loireia alciphion var. gorditis, a couple of 

 Satyrits alcyone, and a single Brenthis daphne. An attempt to visit 

 Branson and the Collutea was, however, frustrated by a violent 

 thunderstorm that overtook me as I arrived at the Rhone, and though 

 I was fortunately in reach of shelter I was obliged to return as soon 

 as the deluge permitted. 



The first two of my Samoussy A. levana chrysalises came out on 

 this day, producing, of course, the prorsa form. 



(To he continued). 



Anaspis hudsoni, Doiiisthorpe, ? bred. 



By H. St. J. K. DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 In the Ent. Record, 1909, p. 60, I described a new species of 

 Anaspis as A. hudsoni, from a <^ specimen taken in a woody fungus 



