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list in point of numbers. Of Y. Antiopa I took two, but they are far from perfect. 

 I noticed a good many more, but did not succeed in getting them. J', e-album was 

 frequently seen, but V. urtiece was almost absent. I noticed this last named species, 

 together with Euchloe eardamines, Lycama alsus, and Nisoniades Tages, flying at 

 an elevation of about 4000 feet on the base of the Rochers de Naye. There was a 

 good deal of snow even as low as this in May. 



Erebia Medusa and Epinephele hyperanthus were on the wing in the vicinity 

 of Aigle, and in the same locality I took Pararge Algeria, P. Megtera, Polyommatus 

 dor His (one), and several Carlerocephalus paniscus. 



At Les Avants I netted two Pararge Hiera, and obtained one more later at 

 Blonay. 



As to the Lycmnidre. I think I am not far wrong in saying that L. Alsus 

 was quite the commonest butterfly seen. It swarmed round the puddles and 

 streamlets on the roads and paths, rising in a cloud as one passed by. L. Icarus 

 (Alexis) and L. Ac-is (semiargus) were plentiful, and good single examples of L. 

 argiohis and L. cyllarus were taken. 



Turning to the Heterocera, several species were very common in the meadows 

 at Veytaux, and near Aigle, such as Enclidia glyphica, Emafuraa atomaria, and 

 Scoria dealbata (lineata). I also took in the same localities two Erastrla decep- 

 toria, several Strenia clathrata, and single examples of the following, Venilia 

 maculata, Minoa murinata, Emmelesia albulata, Tephrosia co?tsonaria,B.nA Cr ambus 

 ■pratellus. 



Near Aigle I found two Zygana trifolii, and on May 20th obtained Plusia 

 chrysitis, Eubolia plumbaria, Larentia viridaria, Eupisleria obliterata, and Hypsi- 

 petes impltiviata, by beating bushes bordering a very marshy meadow at Villeneuve. 



I did not work at all for motbs after dark, as there was not to my knowledge 

 any favourable ground within reasonable distance of the hotel. 



As regards the weather, I was fortunate in having it fine and hot, with the 

 exception of one day (June 3rd), when a severe storm accompanied by heavy rain 

 visited the district. The effect, as the storm passed over the lake, was very fine. 

 — Philip J. Baeraud, Bushey Heath, Herts : August, 1902. 



A small form of Lyceena Corydon in Oxfordshire. — On August 13th, a dull, 

 sultry day, I visited a chalk pit near Watlington, Oxon., and was astonished to find 

 L. Corydon in the utmost profusion lying about in the grass. Their numbers were 

 in excess of my previous experience of any Lepidopterous insect whatever ; they 

 seemed unable or unwilling to fly, and when disturbed, merely fluttered feebly in 

 the grass, so that it was impossible to avoid treading on them, and we must un- 

 willingly have destroyed hundreds. What was even more astonishing was the 

 difference in their sizes. A considerable number were about the average bulk, but 

 the majority, both males and females, were extraordinarily undersized, measuring 

 from just under an inch to an inch and a quarter across the wings. Hardly any 

 other butterfly was seen, and the only moths in any force were Z. filipendula and 

 E. bipunctaria, the former, like the butterflies, refusing to fly, and clinging to the 

 grass and flowers of the Scabious. The next day being bright and fresh the insects 







