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were also taken, and two or three P. optilete and Aricia eumedon. 

 Down by the river, P. pheretes was flying, and inchided some nice 

 females, three of them having the blue discoidal spot (ab. caendeo- 

 punctata), and others with blue powdering at the base of the wings. 

 In the same meadows Polyouimatim hylas, Loiceia dorilifi, Chryxop/ianus 

 hippothoe, Heodes riryaiireae, some varied forms of Melitaea atlialia, M. 

 phoebe, M. dictynna, and Brenthis awathusia were met with. One of 

 the latter was a nice aberration m which the antemarginal black spots 

 are joined to the dentated black edging, thus forming a series of loops. 



Some very good ground was found above the Almagel waterfall, 

 and here Erehia tyndarus, PolyoinmatKS orbitidns, and Melitaea var. 

 ran'a were abundant. The examples of varia sat on the damp patches 

 on the path by scores, and it was an easy matter to kneel down and 

 box two or three at a time. They had a curious habit of lying quite 

 flat on their side when frightened, and were then difficult to pick up. 

 Near Saas-Grund I took a remarkable aberration, which Mr. Wheeler, 

 who was kind enough to go through some of my captures, refers to 

 this species, though it is so unlike it, that I had supposed it to be 

 Melitaea aster ie. The upperside strongly resembles M. dictynna, but the 

 light dots in the upper wing are prolonged into dashes. On the under- 

 side the ground colour of the upper wings is carried over the basal 

 half of the lower wings, and has large black dots, but no white spots ; 

 the white band is very much wider than usual, and the antemarginal 

 band almost obliterated. It is a form worthy of being figured. 



On June 29th we walked up to the Mischabel Hut and spent the 

 night there. Just below the Hut, at an altitude of over 11000 feet, a 

 freshly-emerged Pieris rapae was found sitting on a rock. Possibly 

 the pupa may have been carried up, but he was certainly some distance 

 above his native cabbage-patch. A few Melitaea cyntJiia and Melitaea 

 anrinia were taken near Saas, some Lycaena alcon including var. niyra 

 and a variable series of Lycaena avion. Some of the latter were large 

 and very rich examples of var. ohacnra, with broad black bands, and 

 were found by searching low juniper bushes on a rainy afternoon. 



The flowers of Saas were fine, and among other good things may 

 be mentioned Primula lonyifiora, Arctium ritaliana, Linea borealis, 

 Eritrichinm nanum, Androsace piibescens, and Seueeio vnifioriifi. 



We left on July 8th with many regrets, and the walk down was 

 one to be remembered. Erebias, Blues, and Skippers sat literally in 

 crowds on the damp parts of the road, until it was difficult to make 

 progress, and we nearly missed our train. Thirteen species of Blues 

 were noted during the walk down, including Pnlyommatns ero>i, Aricia 

 emnedon, P. optilete, and P. donzelii, and they formed a fitting finish 

 to a most excellent holiday. 



Everes argiades, Pall., E. dipora, Moore, and Binghamia parr= 



hasius, Fab. Urith plate). 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



In his Butts, of India, iii., pp. 137-139, de Niceville unites these 

 three species in one. Parr/tasins had for practically a century been 

 considered distinct, and Moore had described dipora as a species quite 

 separable from aryiades. The difficulty of separating the Indian form 

 of aryiades, recently named var. diporides, by Chapman {Xat. Hist. 



