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a very line underside aberration of Lycaena avion, the only good one I 

 ever remembered seeing, in which the usual ocelli on the inferior wings 

 are elongated into a series of streaks, the spots on the left forewing are 

 almost obsolete, those on the right one normal. Unfortunately the 

 specimen, like so many abnormal forms, is somewhat crippled. Other 

 species taken were Tiimticiis ari/us, It. ari/i/ronoiiioii, Polyommatiisi 

 aatrarche, P. euinedon, P. In/las, and Ntniiiaili's se)niayi/us, all pretty 

 frequent except the last named. Amongst the skippers we found Thy- 

 riu'licH.^ lineola, Pnmphila cDniina and Hes])i>ria «Z/v'i/.s, whilst ('oenonymplio 

 satyriiin was not infrequent. I could only get a few hours down the 

 wonderful gorge of Gondo, but I much regretted afterwards that I did 

 not spend more time there, for several very welcome and unexpected 

 things turned up within a mile of the upper end of the gorge, including 

 a fine specimen each of Aryyvnis adijipe var. dcodo.m and Mclanaryia 

 yalatca var. in-orida. I believe but few specimens of these forms have 

 ever been taken within the Swiss border. The latter specimen had a 

 very striking appearance on the wing, very different from the typical 

 M. yalatca, and, until I had it in the net, I thought I was pursuing 

 a Limcniih, or possibly Xeptis lucilla. In addition to these two speci- 

 mens, I obtained Erchia yoantc, commonly, /•.'. euryale, PoUyninnatus 

 aatrarchf, Pyrytis sao, and Pararyc )ii(iera, strangely enough, for this 

 late date, in fine condition. 



On .Tuly 2ftth we returned north, oi mute for Zermatt. After 

 spending the night at Brigue, I spent a few hours collecting under the 

 clifit's by the Rhone ; here, after two or three futile attempts at 

 stalking, I managed to catch my first h'liranetisa antiopa, a fine large 

 specimen in the pink of condition. One's first antiopa is an event 

 for most of vts, almost as exciting as the experience must have been to 

 the old collectors at Camberwell, and my specimen is certainly a much 

 finer one. I obtained another new species, to me, in the fine Enodia 

 dryan, almost as large as K. antiopa, of a rich brown hue, and with 

 lovely blue ocelli, certainly one of the handsomest of European 

 Rhopalocera. Plenty of Pobyviniiatns rorydon, P. baton, Colias ediisa, 

 PyryuK .sy/o, and other things were flying about, and I obtained some 

 fine Thi'da spini. 



From .Tuly 29th to August 3rd we stayed at the Riftelalp Hotel, 

 above Zermatt, and were fortunate in having ideal weather whilst 

 here. Collecting was not, however, the success one hoped for, the 

 beautiful alpine Howers were almost gone, and, although certain 

 butterflies were abundant, many of them were evidently past their 

 best. This was to me rather surprising, considering the date, and 

 tha,t the ground collected was from 7500ft., the height of the hotel, 

 to over 10000ft. We walked up to the Gornergrat, chiefly with the 

 object of obtaining Erchia ylarialis: on the way up we obtained a few 

 /<;. yoryc, but I did not see any signs of E. ylacialin, and being in- 

 sufficiently clad to face the keen breeze at this high altitude, over 

 10000ft., I soon had had enough of it, on the way down obtaining 

 more /'.'. yoi'yc, some J'!, cassiopc, E. lappona, plenty of E. ninestra, a 

 few Mclitaca ci/ntliia, Jliotthis pales, and Aryynnis niobc var. crii^. On 

 my son's return I was suprised to find that he had obtained three 

 specimens of Erchia ylacialis. 



The next day, however, we found a much better locality for this 

 species amongst the rough boulders l)y the Findelen glacier. This is 

 only at the sanu' altitude as the hotel, and thus saves the fatiguing 



