274 THE entomologist's recokd. 



100 yards or so before dropping again, so that much hard work was 

 required to get specimens, especially as the pastures ascend so steeply. 

 E. iiorije, true to its usual character, preferred the rough and stony places, 

 darting quickly from one resting-place to another when disturbed, and 

 keeping so close to the ground, on which it prefers to rest sideways, that it 

 was not at all easy always to spot, and was much better covered than 

 allowed to get up before a shot was made. There was no trace of the 

 triopes form, all the examples having two sj)otsupon the apex of the fore- 

 wings, exceptonewhichshowsatiny third. Thefinefresh 3 Brenthis pales 

 are very beautiful as they swing with expanded wings in the sunlight on a 

 composite flower, whose orange seems to sometimes attempt to match 

 their own browner hue ; the 2 s are almost of the colour of the ^ s, 

 only a few being rather paler than the rest, and then not markedly so. 

 The lovely Crambus luctiferellus occasionally occurred near the summit 

 of the Pass, whilst C. coulonellus was rather common, both here and for 

 some distance down, both species being disturbed as one walked through 

 the herbage, and resting againatalittle distance. The $ s of both species 

 laid eggs in the boxes in which they were enclosed. Those of the beauti- 

 ful C. liictifeielliis were laid loosely, pale yellow in colour, and, as far as 

 could be made out with a hand lens, were almost barrel- shaped, with 

 about ten well marked longitudinal ribs. Those of C. conlonelluR were 

 also laid loosely, pale yellow in colour, but of a rather lighter tint than 

 those of C. coulonellus ; they were also much smaller, less rounded, 

 although still barrel-shaped, but a little flattened on the top, whilst 

 the ribs appear to be rather coarser, and not more than eight in number, 

 although not too certainly made out. Ch-mubus cmichellus yvas common. 

 Now and again, right at the summit of the Pass, a specimen of 

 Neweophila planto(/inis, or its ab. uiatronalis, was disturbed, and one is 

 always set thinking as to the cause of the remarkable distribution in 

 altitude of this species, for it appears to be quite as much at home on 

 these high storm-swept alps, covered with snow for fully seven months 

 in the year, as Anthrocera e.culans, which also freely occurred here, yet it 

 comes down to sea-level and haunts the warm woodlands of central 

 Europe. One specimen of ^. e.vulans was very strangely aberrant, the left 

 forewings being of the ab. striata {Brit. Lep., i., p. 448), the right fore- 

 wings with normal five spots, a real sr»?i-.str/a^fl individual. The Fuhjomtna- 

 tus orbitulus also proved interesting ; some of the examples have, 

 on the underside of the hindwings, no costal or any of the transverse 

 row of spots, the discoidal standing alone in the centre of the wing, 

 whilst the basal spots are also absent = ab. obsoleta, others have 

 the normal spots showing only as white blotches without kernels 

 = ab. albipuncta, whilst others have a mixture of white and 

 kernelled spots ; on the forewings, too, not onl}' were there 

 examples with no basal spots = ab. sinepuncta (parallel with the ab. 

 icarinuR of P. icarus) but others had one only = ab. u)iipu)icta, and 

 others again had two, as in many of the allied species. The Mdantpias 

 epiphron also varied considerably, some were wholly dark Avith hardly 

 a trace of dots on any of the wings, and distinctly inclined to the 

 obsoleta form, whilst others had a good fulvous band with distinct dots, 

 others again being intermediate. A single <? Urbicola comma was 

 netted, the only one seen in the Davos district, so that one suspects it 

 was not yet out ; but a single large pale ^ Setina irrorella, and some 

 worn Scopida alpinalis, suggested that these species were over. On the 

 highest pastures Pygmaena fusca was not infrequent, whilst Adkinia 



