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places. Tribe : Pikridi. — Pieris ralUdice. — Rare, and difficult to 

 catch. Both sexes were in fine condition. Tribe : Rhodocekidi. — 

 C'olian palacno. — Rare, but in fine condition, occurred round the 

 Hospice, as well as on the higher slopes. Colias plik-u)iiu)U'. — Fairly 

 common, and distributed all over the district. The specimens varied 

 in condition ; some were very fine. One female drying her wings was 

 taken ; but, although I searched closely, I could not find the pupa 

 case. 



Fam. : Nymphalid.e. Tribe : VANESsiDi.^J//Zrt/s- »r^/r<:«'.— Exceed- 

 ingly abundant in the larval state on stinging-nettle. The few 

 imagines observed were all of the large, deeply-coloured, Alpine form ; 

 but larvae, which I took when nearly full-fed, and which pupated 

 after a few days' starvation, produced in London, on August 80th, 

 specimens of the most ordinary British type as to the colour of the 

 upper sides, although there is a marked distinction between the pale 

 and light areas of the underside, and the ante-marginal row of blue 

 lunules on the underside of the hind-wings is especially well-marked. 

 Tribe: knoY^'^iMi. — AnjijnnU lathonia. — I should have left Lautaret 

 with the impression that the sjjecies did not occur in the district, but 

 for the fact that I captured a fine freshly emerged specimen on the 

 morning of my departure. An/ij)inis niohe ab. cris. — A single speci- 

 men only seen and captured. Probably it was not fully out. An/i/nni-s 

 ai/laia. — A few male specimens only captured. The species was pro- 

 bably not fully out. Those I caught were fully coloured, but rather 

 small. Ihent/iis pairs. — Common all over the fiowery slopes, and 

 found up to 9,000ft. Some of the males are well marked and 

 richly coloured. Others (ab. dhxalcsccits) have the black markings 

 much reduced, and these form a very large percentage of the whole. 

 The female ab. napaea was more common than females of fulvous 

 coloration. The undersides of many of the specimens are remarkably 

 free from black markings (ab. isis). Tribe : Melit/Eidi. — Mditaca 

 ci/ntliia. — Both sexes were on the wing, the males tattered, the 

 females worn. Evidently the species was over. The species occurred 

 near the Hospice, but was much more abundant about 1,000ft. 

 above it. Mditaca auruiia \a,r. iiu'rapc. — This species also was over. 

 A few worn specimens passed through the net, and two females, 

 rather larger than is usual in this variety, were brought home. 



Fam.: Satyrid^e. Tribe: Ccenonymphidi. Coenunympha iplds. — 

 Probably the most abundant and interesting butterfly in the district. 

 The sexual dimorphism is very marked on the upper sides, the male 

 of a deep fulvous, the female with the fore-wings much paler. The 

 variation of the undersides of both sexes presents such a slow 

 gradation from the entirely unocellated, to the conspicuously 

 banded and strongly ocellated form, that one is confronted at 

 last with all the recognised characters of ('. mtijrion in undoubted 

 specimens of ^'. iphis. The most extreme form of the under- 

 side of both sexes has no ocellated spots on either the fore- or 

 hind-wings, the latter being entirely greenish-grey, but for the brown 

 tint of the base, and a small triangular remnant of the whitish trans- 

 verse band that crosses the wings in some specimens. The ocellated 

 spots gradually increase in number, until they reach a maximum of 

 six on the underside of the hind-wings, and one on the fore-wings. The 

 white patch, too, is accompanied in some specimens by another towards 



