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every piuMIe oi- oozinj^ rill, whilst (Joliaa />/iifoiiione Hcoured the 

 tiowar-liukm slopes. For an houi- we walked round the lake, 

 whilst the sun scorched our faces, and our hoxes were fillefl. Then 

 we lunched hy an icy-cold spring, and on again. We calculated 

 whether we ought not to go on through this lovely alpine land, and 

 drop to iJisentis, and then go hack and find our luggage ; hut we 

 were getting tired, and the way was long, so we followed the path hjick 

 again, and rested at Piora, the land of flowers, where one house con- 

 stitutes the village, and is, in fine weather, a region of loveliness. 

 What it is when the rain -clouds hold it for a week or so at the time, 

 we know not. We caught Piora in its greatest loveliness, and as we 

 left it in the afternoon sunshine, the still lake with hardly a ripple, 

 the patch(;s of snow still on the edge of the pine-woods, and the 

 rushing FoKsbach,fallingover its rocky ten-aced bed lOOfeetor more into 

 the valley helow, we could not help lingering on the Col, and wondering 

 whether it would ever he our happy lot to see this beautiful spot again, 

 isolated among its mountains, surrounded l;y the grandeur (jf their 

 pine-covered slopes, nestling among the natural beauties that water 

 and rocks, and flowers bestow. We did not collect as we descended, 

 but we saw the busy natives mowing the steep flower-banks at 

 Brugnasco, and we knew that the entomologist's harvest there had 

 gone for this season at least. 



Next morning was again dull and cloudy, and we rested that day, setting 

 our captures and making a few notes. A fortnight of our holiday had 

 passed, and we had much to do. We would leave it to chance. If the 

 next morning should be bright we stayed another day, if not, we moved 

 on to Lugano — chance decreed that we went to Lugano. 



Notes on lepidoptera from the F^yrenees Cleogene peletieraria 



(iiith sni-L'H jdatasj. 

 By Dh. T. a. chapman. 



One of the characteristic species of the Pyrenees is (Jleofjenc peletie- 

 ratia, this species was only known from the Pyrenees until I took it in 

 1901 in the Cantal>rian mountains. Of course, these ranges of 

 northern Spain are continuations of the Pyrenees, and have a good 

 many features in common. 



This year I saw C. peletieraria flying freely as I went up to the 

 Col du Riou, and on the slopes some miles further north and a little 

 higher, where I found Krebia (jonjone common, I met with several 

 ? s of E. peletieraria at rest on grass stems, curiously enough, 1 did 

 not here see one ^ on the wing. These $ s laid a large number of 

 eggs, which duly hatched shortly after my return home. The larvae 

 fed I'eadily on l^atnn comiculatuH and grew rapidly, and a considerable 

 proportion went right ahead, and the moths emerged in October and 

 November. This enabled me to follow the species right through, 

 which might have been difificult had the larvai hybernated as they do 

 naturally. There are many lepidoptera that are single- or double- 

 brooded, according to circumstances of locality and climate, but 

 C. peletieraria inhabits slopes at such an elevation that it is almost 

 certainly always single-brooded (4500ft. -6000ft.). Unquestionably, 

 niy moths emerged when their native slopes would be a hopeless place 

 of residence for the imago. I was, therefore, somewhat surprised to 



