244 r April, 



specimens were taken in the Swiss Alps, and I notice that Zeller in 

 liis catalogue of the ClilloiiiJcc and CntJiihidce says they are found at 

 about the line of per])etual snow, which would mean at an elevation 

 of something over 9000 feet. 



a. var. luctuellus, H.-S. (22 nun.). 



The ground-colour is clear olive-brown, witli the white longitudinal stripe 

 widening perceptibly outwards, tioice divided, the middle part of which has four 

 distinct angles, the anal one being toothed ; there is also a white tooth on the costa 

 in front of the apex of the wing. The inner margin is edged, with one interruption, 

 with white for about two-thirds of its length, and the hind margin bordered by a 

 dark line. 



Hind-wings brownish-grey ; fringes dirty white, with a dark dividing line, those 

 of the fore-wings being intersected with white. 



Head and palpi brownish; antennae and pataglae olive-brown ; body similar to 

 the hind-wings. 



I have described these in their order according to Staudinger's 

 catalogue, but it seems to me that the correct position of Juctifcrcllus 

 is immediately after int/filcllus, as its white stripe is only once divided, 

 and it has the white curved oblique line beyond as in that species, and 

 the ground-colour is also more similar to mjjtileUus. 



Again, its variety luctuellus has the stripe iwicc divided, so that 

 this species evidently forms the connecting link between those Crnmhi 

 that have the longitudinal stripe once divided, and those that have the 

 same with two divisions. 



Augustus Road, Edgbaston : 



January 3rd, 1883. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF PAMPHILA LINEA. 

 BY WILLIAM EUCKLEK. 



Of this long-wished-for larva I had the great pleasure to receive 

 six fine examples on the 11th of last June, from Mr. "VV. H. B. Fletcher, 

 who, most kindly mindful of my desiderata when finding himself at 

 their locality in th? eastern division of Sussex, on the evening of the 

 9th, succeeded in sweeping them from Holcus lannfus, a very soft 

 pubescent grass, with w'hich they assimilated both in colour and 

 texture most remarkably well. 



They had evidently done moulting, and continued feeding well on 

 the above-mentioned grass from seven to fourteen days, and seemed 

 rather to prefer it to Bracliypodium sylvaticum, another soft-haired 

 grass, which they also ate freely enough while the experiment sug- 

 gested itself to me, during apart of the time, fi'om the circumstance of 

 my having a few years ago gathered some of it containing, quite by 

 chance, a spun-uj) ])ui»a. that shortly after produced this butterfly. 



