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flitting about quite freely, although it had not been noticed on the other 

 side of the Pass, the 2 s with a tendency to blue scaling on the hindwings. 

 Then we found a sunny corner, where a steep, stony, torrent-bed had 

 been torn out, down to the river, and the rough sides were covered with 

 willows, birches, and little poplars, and here was real destruction, for the 

 larvi« of Leiiconia salicis had, in some cases, absolutely stripped the willows 

 and poplars, and hundreds were flying everywhere, whilst the spittle-like 

 covering of their eggs was seen on the stems, leaves, and stones, almost 

 everywhere. But I was more interested in the fact that some small 

 fritillaries were flying freely, and, netting them, I found them to be 

 Brenthis aniathHuia, Melitaea dicti/nna and Melitaea athalia ("?), the 

 mountain form; but oh, how disappointing it was, for all the 

 species were paaxe, and specimen after specimen was captured only to 

 be rejected. More than a half-hour was spent on them, and the total 

 results were 9 M. athalia, 2 M. dictynna and 2 B. amatJiiisia, just good 

 enough to take, in spite of the fact that, as they swung in the afternoon 

 sun on the scabious flowers, they really looked quite lovely. However, 

 a closer inspection proved that our standard for cabinet purposes was 

 higher than their condition, so we had to let them go. A thought of 

 moving on drew attention to the fact that the sun had left the road 

 in the upper part of the valley, and so we lingered a little longer and 

 returned, feeling that, so near the town, and so low down, the season 

 already appeared to be over. 



(To be continued.) 



Notes from the Pyrenees {irith three plates). 



By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D. 



I spent, last summer, a few weeks in the central Pyrenees, chiefly 

 at Gavarnie. In visiting them the principal object I had in view, was 

 to observe Erebia lefebvrei. 



The Pyrenees are not visited by English entomologists in any 

 numbers, yet they are as accessible, and entomologically as attractive, 

 as, say, the much more frequented Switzerland or the Tyrol. Accessible 

 must, however, be taken emu (jrano, there is no difliculty in getting 

 there, but suitable resting-places, except at the lower levels, are much 

 fewer. Anything, however, I might have to say, either about travelling 

 in these mountains, or their general entomological features, is said so 

 much better than I could do it by Mr. H. Eowland-Brown in the 

 Entoiwloijist, 1905, p. 243, that I will confine myself more particularly 

 to a few special items in which I was interested. 



]\Iarasmarcha tuttodactyla. Chapman. 



]\Iarasi)iarcha tuttodactyla is abundant at Gavarnie and other places, 

 near Luz, Gedre, etc., and is probably common in the south of France. 

 Monsieur Rondou knows it as J/", pliaeodactyla, and there can be little 

 doubt that it is not distinguished from J7. lunaedactyla (p/iaeodactyla) 

 by French entomologists, and the two species together form in their 

 minds, books and descriptions, their pictures of M. lunaedactyla. The 

 distinction between the two species is unmistakable when the ancillaiy 

 appendages are examined, those of M. lunaedactyla being symmetrical, 

 of M. tuttodactyla dift'erent on the two sides. Mr. E. E. Bankes has 

 been kind enough to examine a short series of M. tuttodactyla, and to 

 give me a description of the points in which it differs from M. lunaedactyla. 



