176 THE entomologist's record. 



the two species feeding on the flowers of their respective foodplants. 

 So far as we have got, a similar parallelism occurs in Adkinia zopho- 

 dactylus, but with regard to the latter, we still await exact obser- 

 vations as to how the spring larva of this species disports itself from 

 the time it re-commences to feed until pupation, in fact, from the 

 time the autumn eggs are laid right through winter and spring until 

 pupation. We have a splendid account from various observers of 

 the flower-feeding summer larvse in more than one brood [Nat. Hist. 

 Brit. Lep., v., pp. 322-325), but of the winter boring larvaB we know 

 practically nothing, and still await the careful observer who is to 

 tell us, we hope, in the immediate future. 



A recent note from Mr. Gillmer (written May 24th, 1908) states 

 that, on May 20th, he found larvae of Adkinia var. imeumonanthes 

 on Gentiana pueiimonanthe, that they become external on the food- 

 plant about the middle of May, and feed on the apex of the plant. 

 The earliest larva pupated May 23rd, and the earliest imago emerged 

 on June 3rd. 



The last larva observed by us had pupated by June 11th, by which 

 date four imagines had, as previously noted, already appeared. The 

 imago from this last pupa emerged on June 23rd. The pupal stage of 

 this brood is, therefore, a very short one. 



This addition to our knowledge of the life-history of the winter 

 brood of Adkinia (jrapJiodavtyla opens up, so far, new ground, and we 

 would suggest that a copy of these pages should be carefully fastened 

 so as to face page 529, in volume v, of TIte Natural History of British 

 Lepidoptera (vol. i, Nat. Hist, of British Alucitides). 



Butterflies in the Pyrenees in 1907. 



By J. N. KEYNES, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., and G. L. KEYNES. 



The following are some extracts from our entomological diary for 

 about four weeks, which we spent in the French Pyrenees in June 

 and July, 1907. For the first week we were in the Eastern Pyrenees 

 at Vernet-les-Bains, an excellent entomological centre ; we then moved 

 westward, our headquarters being, successively, Bagneres de Luchon, 

 Cauterets, Gavarnie, and Biarritz. At Vernet the weather was fine, 

 and it was exceedingly hot ; afterwards the weather was very broken, 

 and at Cauterets we practically had no sunshine at all. The season, 

 entomologically and otherwise, was a late one, and the snow was 

 lying thick at much lower altitudes than is usual in the early summer. 



June 16th. — Vernet to Casteil and the Monastery of St. Martin. 

 The sky was cloudless, and it was very hot, notwithstanding a fairly 

 strong breeze. On this one day we recognised more than fifty 

 dift'erent species. The insects, speaking generally, were wild and 

 difficult to catch, and this continued to be the case throughout our 

 stay at Vernet. The only skipper that we noticed was Hesperia 

 carthanri. Amongst the '"blues" were Noniiades cyllarus, Scolitantides 

 baton, S. orion, and Kveres aryiades var. curetas. These, with the 

 exception of S. baton, were getting over ; but while at Vernet we took 

 good specimens of all of them. Other blues were Cyaniris semiaryus, 

 Polyotiiniatus alexis, and Aricia astrarche. Papilio podalirius var. 

 feisthamelii was flying freely and in excellent condition. This butterfly 

 and Aporia crataeyi were the insects most in evidence, if not absolutely 

 the most common, at Vernet. We took Parnassius apollo and 



