312 THE entomologist's record. 



half-a-dozen Limenitis silnjlla, and certainly less than that number of 

 Dnjaa paphia, in places on, and going towards, the upper road, where 

 they are generally to be found in numbers. I saw only five Apatiira 

 iris, all of which I caught (though I didn't keep them all), and one 

 A. ilia ; the only other species on the upper road or in the fields and 

 woods being JMelitaea athalia, Pararije iiiaera, and P. acldm'. On 

 returning to the station and going along the little path behind the 

 inn, I found the SanibKciis ebiiliis fully out, and a very fair number of 

 " hairstreaks " seated upon it. It was nearly train time, and I was 

 consequently rather hurried, but of those I captured, the greater 

 nuuiber were Xorchnannia iiicis, rather pronouncedly of the cerri form, 

 but somewhat below the average in size, several others proved to be 

 N. acaciae, and one only C'hattendenia ic-albnm. A few Parnassius 

 apollo, of course of the var. niratus, were flying on the neighbouring 

 bank, and Coeiwinjmplia arcania was not uncommon on both sides of 

 the path. It was a great pleasure to find myself at Eclepens once 

 more, but the results were distinctly disappointing. 



(vi.) IIiNTERZARTEN. — It is Very practicable to get a day at Hinter- 

 zarten by spending two nights at Bale, and the Hotel Jura is very 

 convenient for the purpose, but for those who have time at their 

 disposal it would be preferable to make Freiburg their headquarters, 

 visiting Alt- and perhaps Neu-Breisach, the Mooswald, and the Kaisar- 

 stuhl, as well as Hinterzarten and its vicinity. However, as I had to 

 content myself with Hinterzarten alone, snatching a day between 

 Eclepens and the Meienthal, Bale was the only place practicable with 

 a view to all three localities. There is a fairly early express to 

 Freiburg without a stop, and then a wait of some thirty minutes before 

 the little branch-line train leaves for Neustadt and Donaueschingen. 

 The actual distance to Hinterzarten is ' short, and the line 

 very cheap, but as much of the distance rises by steep gradients, 

 the time consumed is rather long. This, however, is made up 

 for by the great beauty, and in places the grandeur, of the 

 scenery through which one passes, especially in the Hollenthal 

 (Valley of Hell) with the quaintly-named village of Himmelreich 

 (Kingdom of Heaven) at the foot of it. It is said that in former times 

 the pass was a favourite resort of brigands, and that the name of the 

 village was a grateful tribute of travellers to the safety they felt on 

 arriving there, after the perils through which they had passed. The 

 collecting ground at Hinterzarten consists of a marsh surrounded by, 

 and interspersed with, wood, and it is necessary to approach it by a 

 longish detour through the scattered village. The special objects of 

 my search were the rinaldns form of Brenthis selene and B. arsilache, 

 but I rather expected to be too late for the former and too early for the 

 latter. My original sketch of my tour had provided for two visits to 

 this spot, one earlier and one later than I actually went, but this was 

 frustrated by the wet weather prevailing at the time of my previous 

 passage through Bale, so I chose an intermediate date on the chance 

 of just catching both species. I was to some extent successful, though 

 only the g s of B. arsilache were to be found, and B. selene was mostly 

 worn. With one exception, every specimen of the latter had a good 

 proportion of the underside hindwing washed with silver, but, 

 unfortunately, not one was of the rinaldus form, for which this 

 locality is famous. The 3 s of B. arsilache were in their very first 



