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the secondaries. This morning our walk lay over towards Pontrosina 

 by the little lake and through the woods, and Erebia euryale was 

 added to my list, as also was its smaller ally tyndarus. The Lyccenidce 

 were remarkable for their absence, only one or two L. semiargus and 

 minima being taken. Again I try the Ober Alpina hill, and on my 

 way take several Zygcena nubigena just freshly emerged from the pupa, 

 and as T get well above the restaurant a wild dash and a rapid stroke 

 brings Macrothylacia rubi into the net, quite fresh, quite typical, a 

 specimen that I could easily pair from Dartmoor, but T take it there 

 early in May, and here we are the 3rd of July, but about 7500 feet 

 high. 



Again the wind begins to blow, it nearly always does I believe 

 up here, but it is less strong and less keen, and Lyccena orbitulus soon 

 comes along and also one or two pheretes are netted, when a strange 

 Crambus flies across my path but is soon in the net, turning out to 

 be alienellus, the first time I have seen it alive ; but where are 

 the MelitcBw and Argynnidoe ? — only one phoebe, two or three dictynna, 

 and a few Argynnis selene were captured, whilst on my way down the 

 only Erebice that are seen are a few melampus and one tyndarus ; 

 evidently it is a very late season. So the next day, a brilliantly hot 

 one, we make our way down to Silvaplana along the Maloja road, and 

 a hot one it turns out to be, but different species soon put in an 

 appearance — Lyccena eros not uncommon and in the pink of condition ; 

 I take one danion equally fresh, so thirstily drinking in the moisture 

 near a rivulet that it allows me to box it without a quiver ; a beautiful 

 arion, that might almost be an euphemus. is netted, with the basal spots 

 reduced to points ; eumedon soon comes along and is transferred to a 

 box, whilst settling in the dust in the hottest part of the road are 

 several of that exceptionally lively little genus Orenaia, and alpestris 

 is added to the list ; but as the sun disappears for a time a small Arctiid 

 dashes across the road towards the fir trees on the right, a ready 

 stroke, however, reveals a quite fresh Parasemia hospita, and in a 

 minute or two a typical plantaginis shares the same fate. 



But the sun does not shine and the wind blows so I begin to 

 search, and soon come across a little Lycaena at rest among the grass 

 on a sheltered bank near to the end of the Silvaplana lake, close to 

 Sils Maria, it turns out to be a very large specimen of minima, the 

 bank literally is alive with them, hundreds could have been taken, 

 some at rest bead downwards and some head upwards — it was a sight 

 to see them, so numerous were they ; two bellargus were boxed with 

 them from the same bank. 



