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to work the electric lights at night, and they were so numerous and 

 powerful at some of the Hotels that one hardly knew which to take. 

 I took, however, several species, among them being one Acronycta 

 myriccB and several beautiful Dianthcecia ccssia ; Leucania comma was 

 common and very wild in its movements; one Mamestra glauca came 

 within reach. The lively sun-loving little species of the genera 

 Orenaia and Titanio always have an attraction for me, and of the 

 former T took each of the Swiss species lugubralis and helveticalis 

 rarely, rupestralis and alpestralis more commonly; rupestralis was of an 

 unusually dark colour. Titanio phrygialis was abundant everywhere, 

 schrankiana was as usual rarer, and on the whole it is certainly more 

 difficult to catch. I have not enumerated a number of the species of 

 the OeometrcB, having confined myself to the more interesting species. 



Three Days at Altanen Bad. 

 On our return from Pontresina we decided to make a day or 

 two's stay at Alvanen Bad, tempted so to do by a sight of several 

 captures made by the Rev. C. Travers, who made a short stay there 

 in July, and caught several beautiful Limenitis populi, and also found 

 the pupa?. We therefore stayed there the first three days in August. 

 Returning from the high Alps the heat seemed very great, though 

 this was rendered pleasanter in the beautiful gardens of the Bad 

 Hotel, through which rushed the river, not having lost its glacier 

 colour. Two well-flown females of Aporia cratagi were the only 

 Pieridce taken. Of the Melitcece I took a small series of aurelia, and 

 only ono dictynna. Argynnis dia and amathusia occurred rarely ; 

 niobe and paphia were very common, and very vigorous in the hot 

 sunshine ; aglaia was rare, or rather, I only took one fine female per- 

 fectly fresh. Melanargia galathea was common iu the clearings of 

 the woods. Erebia cethiops, large dark specimens, was fairly common 

 along the edge of the woods just over the river; it was the only re- 

 presentative of the genus. Satyrus cordula was flying high among 

 the pine trees on the side of the hill above the Hotel ; it required 

 hard work and a very steady aim to secure them, for they had a knack 

 of doubling, almost like a tumbler pigeon, and so avoiding the net, 

 but I found that by aiming low, thus keeping the bulk of the net 

 below them, I outwitted their manoeuvres, and so I succeeded in ob- 

 taining a nice series. Pararge hiera, very worn, was the only Pararge 

 that I saw. Among the Lycoenidce the species though few in number 

 were very abundant. Thecla spini occupied the same ground as S. 

 cordula. Lyccena cegon was represented by a single specimen ; corydon 

 was most abundant, as also was damon, the latter is an insect that 



