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found me, at Aigle, bound for the well remembered Sepey road, 

 accompanied by Mr, Sloper, who had been staying at that village for 

 some time, and my son. After one's recent English experience, several 

 miles of tramping, a drenching, and half-a-dozen specimens on a good 

 day, varied by the drenching and the tramping, without the specimens, 

 on a bad day, the brilliant blue sky and wealth of insect life were 

 indeed a welcome change. 



As one walked up the zigzags, Poli/ommatus (iinium, both sexes, 

 began to appear, together with plenty of P. cori/don and some P. hi/las, 

 a belated specimen of Lycaena avion was netted ; the large Argynnids, 

 Arm/nnis a<ilaia, A. arlipj)e, and A. niohe var. eris, were of course there, 

 and I picked up my first Kpincphele lijcavn, a male, easily distinguished 

 from A', jiirtina when one knows the points of diti'erence, but not 

 otherwise ; presently we came to the rocks and the species changed for 

 the better, Apatura ///x was not infrequent here and in good condition; 

 owing to an unfortunate accident to my net, however, 1 only managed 

 to getone "emperor." Small examplesof L/»/f'»/^/,s- .s/i//^^rt were frequent, 

 and fine ones of Sati/riift hermione, of both sexes, swarmed, with a few 

 nice, and welcome, females of .S. eordida. T/iecla ilieis was in its 

 customary abundance, together with a few Xepfu/ncs ijuerciis; whilst in 

 the shady glades J'arariic achine flew here and there. Skippers were 

 not prominent, and I only noticed a few Pijrr/nx sao, and a single 

 ( archarodus althaeae. I w^as much pleased to get some tine and varied 

 females of Mditaea didyma, for I had only obtained one female the 

 previous year. My son found a larva of Papib'o podalirius feeding on 

 a species of Pninus, this pupated in due course, but the imago has not 

 yet emerged, and is evidently going over until next year (1904). 



July 13th found me on the old ground, Martigny to Vernayaz, 

 which, however, was not so prolific as last season, the Avealth of 

 Lycai-nids and Melitfieas was represented by but few examples, evidently 

 this is especially a June locality, the second broods were m, several 

 emerging. On this and the following day I obtained (ironepteri/.r 

 rhainni, just appearing ; Litnenitin Camilla, in some numbers ; Vaneifm 

 in, Kiitjonia jxdi/cldoros, just emerged ; Melitava phoebe, almost over ; 

 M. didi/ma, females again, and very typical ones ; a single Mditaea 

 athalia, the only one seen in Switzerland by me this year ; an odd 

 Brenthis ainat/iusia : a few Arciynnifi daphne, somewhat pass/i : Ariii/nnix 

 aj/laia, A. nio})c, type, and var. eris, A. adippc : and swarms of Pryas 

 papliia, including one or two pale spotted forms. A few Krehia atyync 

 still lingered, and there were plenty of Satynis lu'niiionc, females of 

 < 'Jn-ysop/uDiiix yordins, yvei'e not uncommon, and were still in good 

 condition, and with them I was much pleased to see the brilliant <'. 

 riryaiivcac for the first time. One's first sight of this species raises 

 ^■ivid fancies of what a gorgeous creature our lost ('. dispar nnist 

 have been ; I also took a single female of ( . hippntlio?. Polynijnnatun 

 anianda was almost over, but I managed to get one or two tolerable 

 females, and some PnlyoJiiiiiattis hylaa and P. eiimedon : a large blue 

 netted proved, to my delight, to be a fine male /'. ineleayer, and one 

 other specimen escaped after being actually in a pillbox, an instance 

 of injudicious curiosity on my part. Cyaniris aryiohis was just appear- 

 ing in the second brood, and my captures of it included a fine female 

 with broad, dark borders, practically identical with our British summer 

 form. I was pleased to get a few Tlwda xpini for the first time. 



