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seen ; a week or so later it would no doubt be very plentiful at Vernet. 

 Amongst other species taken to-day were Netneobius Incina, Pontia 

 daplidice, and Coliaa edusa ab. $ helice ; but none of these were in 

 good condition. 



June 20th. — Another day of bright sunshine. In the morning we 

 again visited the hot corner where we had taken iMeosopis roboris, and 

 added to our series of this insect. One of us spent nearly an hour in 

 pursuit of a specimen of Kpinephele pasipha'e, which kept returning to 

 the same shady place amongst brushwood, and consequently always 

 avoided capture. We took a second specimen of Melannr;iia lachesis. 



June 21st. — One of us, having slept at the Chalet Hotel of the 

 Canigou, climbed this mountain in the morning and made some 

 captures during the descent. These included Thecla ilicis ab. cerri, 

 T. acaciae, Parna.'<sii(s mneniosyne, Melitaea deione, and Erebia evias. 

 The one of us who remained at Vernet returned to the pursuit of 

 Epinephele pasipha'e, and this time with success. It was an absolutely 

 fresh specimen, no doubt the forerunner of many more to come. 

 Amongst other captures were two very large Erynnis olthaeae, both $ s, 

 Celastrina arriiolns, Melitaea dictynna 5 (a light type), and two 

 Melanaryia lachesis. There was some cloud and a little rain in the 

 morning, and a thunderstorm in the evening. 



Ju7ie 22nd. — We left Vernet in torrents of rain. The disturbances 

 in connection with the wine trade in the south of France were at their 

 height, and some of the towns through which we passed to-day, e.g., 

 Narbonne and Perpignan, were almost in a state of siege. We stayed 

 the night at Carcassonne, and went on next day to Luchon. 



June 24th. — Lac d'Oo. Sunshine for about an hour only, and no 

 captures of any interest. 



June 25th. — Vallee du Lys. A fine day. Amongst the insects 

 that we took were Erynnis althaeae, Cyaniris semiaryus, Polyonnnatus 

 bellaryns ab. ? ceronns, Pontia daplidice vox. bellidice (in good condition, 

 but flying with extraordinary rapidity so as to be difficult of capture), 

 Melitaea athalia, M. dictynna, Polyyonia c-albnm, Pararge inaera var. 

 adrasta, Coenonywpha arcania, Erebia stygne, and E. evias. But our 

 most interesting captures were two fine specimens of Polyomniatus 

 corydon var. corydonius, a variety which we have not seen previously 

 recorded from the French Pyrenees. The colour of this butterfly on the 

 upperside is quite different from the type, approaching that of bellargus, 

 though the underside is typically corydun. At first, indeed, we took it 

 for a variety of P. bellaryns, which was common everywhere. There 

 was not a single specimen of corydon (type) to be seen here, nor did 

 we meet with it elsewhere in the ]?yrenees. 



June 26th. — To-day we took a walk into Spain by the Port de 

 V^nasque, and the capturing of butterflies was a rather secondary 

 consideration. Above the Hospice de France, Pararge hiera was flying 

 in some abundance, and higher up, at about 7000 feet, we took some 

 fine and very fresh specimens of Erebia lappona var. sthennyo. At 

 something over 7000 feet we also captured a particularly fine Colias 

 edusa and two Pontia callidice. The day ended in a heavy thunder- 

 storm. 



June 27th. — We spent the morning above the Hospice de France 

 on the way to the Port de la Piquade, and found it a very good 

 hunting-ground. The height above sea-level was something over 4500 



