222 THE entomologist's record. 



roadside, both species nearly fullfed, and spinning up within a day or 

 two of capture. Here, too, on the cats'-mint lloAvers were two freshly- 

 emerged Loiveia dorilis, the forerunners no doubt of an autumn brood, 

 whilst the disturbance of some hedge Stachifn caused a fine freshly- 

 emerged Aiiibb/ptilia acanthodactyla {pi(nctidact;/la) to discover itself, 

 though further search failed to disturb another. A walk along the 

 road towards Splugen discovered nothing further, except a few Colias 

 hyale, freshly-emerged on the slopes, and Coenovijnipha pamjiJiilus in 

 the fields, and, on a flowery bank, Acidalia perochraria. A beautiful 

 specimen of Aryiinniii adippe was netted among the many other insects 

 that underwent inspection. It was markedly of the deodoxa type (often 

 erroneously stated not to be taken north of the main chain of the Alps, in 

 Switzerland), but the ground colour of the wings was of a deep fulvous 

 tint, the transverse band in which the single row of small silver spots is set 

 particularly so, whilst the spots that replace the other silver ones are of 

 much darker yellow ochreous than is usaal = ab. cleodaxa-fidvescens, n. 

 ab., whilst yet another has the innermost large square black dot near the 

 centre of the underside of the forewings extended into a large wedge- 

 shaped spot the apex pointing towards the base of the wing = ab. 

 cuneata, n. ab. No doubt, a little earlier in the season, a careful sorting 

 of the specimens of this species in this district would produce a very 

 satisfactory result. On the way back, a large 2 LasiocaDipa quercm 

 was taken from the rock, but, with the exception of a few Micros, no 

 other species seems to have been observed. 



The next morning was occupied with a walk from Thusis to the 

 entrance of the Albula Valley, through the village of Sils. Most of 

 the species observed in the Via Mala were on the wing, Drt/as paphia 

 being seen in numbers and var. ralesina occasionally, whilst Liwenitis 

 cam ilia, fine bright coppery ? Loiveia dorilis, the(? s worn, an abundance 

 of Enodia hypeyanthus ab. caeca, but very worn, and a single Enodia 

 dry as may also be mentioned. We observed a butterfly drop suddenly on 

 a clover-head, and, netting it, found it to be a 9 Bithys qiiercus, an 

 unusual habit for this species, in our experience. Fleheius aryus (aryyroy- 

 no)iio)i), Aricia astrarche, Polyoninmtiis icanis, and Ayriades corydon 

 were the only blues observed. 



From Thusis we came straight home via Zurich and Basle ; the 

 collecting for the season was now actually over, and there are now 

 only the specimens and the memories of the summer holiday of 1907. 



Notes from the Pyrenees— Odezia atrata and its Variation 



(iritli plates). 

 By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D. 



Somewhere near the Col de Riou, between Luz and Cauterets, 1 

 took, on August 5th, 1907, a ? of Odezia atrata, which happened to 

 be a marked example of the var. pyrenaica, which is apparently 

 identical with the Italian var. costai, Calb. She provided me with a 

 good supply of ova, which enabled me to study the species and the 

 relation to it of this variety. I gather from Rondou's Cataloyue that 

 he has not met with this variety in the central Pyrenees, as he quotes 

 Pyrenees Orientales, with a reference to the original record of Graslin, 

 but notes the type form as being of general distribution up to a con- 

 siderable elevation. 



