254 THE entomologist's liECOUD. 



in size. I can confirm the observation that newly-emerged specimens 

 of this species rest with the wings outspread, after the fashion of a 

 Geometer moth, except that the insect raises itself to its full height 

 upon its legs, and that its wings then curve over as if it were set upon a 

 bevelled setting-board. The end of the abdomen is turned very 

 strikingly upwards. Sijriclithm alccwi. — Several specimens were 

 captured. Three well-marked and well-coloured individuals I should 

 have referred to .S. andromedae, but for Mr, W. E. Nicholson's opinion 

 that they were referable to this species. The underside of these speci- 

 mens is brownish, with white markings. A dark grey inner margin on the 

 underside of the hind-wings is most marked. S. ab. serratidae.'^— 

 Two specimens may be referred here, whilst a male and female, the 

 ground colour dingy brown, and with the- white spots on the fore- 

 wings very small, may be referable to ab. caiiinae, Rbr. Another 

 specimen is of the same size and general appearance as the last three, 

 but it has a much better marked ante-marginal elbowed line of whitish 

 spots. Tribe : Pamphilidi. — Paiitjihila coiitiiia. — Not uncommon, but 

 evidently not fully out. The specimens approach the var. catena, and 

 are much darker than those I have captured in the Tyrol (Mendel, 

 Cortina, etc.). Thijimiicm Unenla. — lhis species occurred rather 

 sparingly by the roadside, and on the flowery banks. My experience 

 would lead me to suppose that this and the last species are by far the 

 commonest and most generally distributed of the Alpine Pamphilids. 

 They appear to be almost everywhere in Piedmont, the Tyrol 

 (Dolomites), and Dauphine, all, by the way, more or less limestone 

 districts. There appears to be no difference between the specimens 

 obtained at Le Lautaret and on the Essex coast. 



PAPILIONIDES. Div. : LYC/ENIDA. Fam. : Lyc.^nid.e. 

 Tribe : Chrysophanidi. — Chri/sujduntus hijijiatlioi' var. eunjhia. — This 

 occurred rarely. The males are of a brilliant copper colour, with a 

 trace of purple along the costa, and vary in the degree of development 

 of the discoidal spot on the upper side of the fore-wings. The females 

 are larger, and of a very unicolorous fuliginous brown hue, with the 

 normal black spots distinctly marked. The underside varies much in 

 the amount of spotting. The same form occurs commonly in the 

 Upper Engadine, at 5,500 to about 7,000 feet. Tribe : Lyc.enidi. 

 Lijraena arion.— One specimen only was netted, and that worn to 

 tatters. Ciipido miniina. — This species was very abundant on one 

 huge flowery slope, from about 7,200ft. -8,000ft. elevation. Some of 

 the specimens are typical, but others were of the ab. alsoidcs, a form 

 as large as the following species. Mr. Nicholson took a large speci- 

 men of this species this year at Bodo, within the Arctic Circle. 

 Xomiades soiiian/iis. — Not very common, and rather poor in condition. 

 The specimens were rather smaller than those from the Tyrol. It 

 was found flying with the preceding species up to quite 8,000ft., and 

 was rather more widely distributed than the last species. Fohjimmatm 

 cun/don. — I have an idea that this species occurred, but, if so, I have 

 not brought a specimen home, and am not at all certain of the matter. 

 I'ulyotiniiatiis hcllan/Hs. — One very worn male specimen. r<il!/(iiiniiatiis 

 eras. — Locally common on the flowery slopes at the back of the 



*Kane refers to this form as inhabiting " Lautaret, Pyr." (Eiirop. Biittx., p. 1-iO). 

 One is puzzled to know whether this is Lautaret in Dauphine, or Cauterets in the 

 Pyrenees, or whether there is another Lautaret in the Pyrenees. 



