1884.] 7 



The darker ground-colour of Mr. Buckler's specimens, and the 

 different shape of the hind margin of the anterior wings arising, pro- 

 bably, from the more complete cilia, seem to be the natural results of 

 the finer condition of bred specimens. 



BadielJa, at the best of times, is always an obscure, dingy insect, 

 and, though of wide distribution, has rarely been met with in any 

 plenty, and as mentioned by Snellen in his " Ylinders van Nederland " 

 (the latest systematic work on European Lepidoptera), the larva was 

 quite unknown ; hence, its occurrence on one of the Composite is of 

 great interest. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham : 



May lUh, 1884 



KOTES ON LJEPIDOPTERA OBSERVED DURING- AN ALPINE 

 TOUR IN 1883. 



BY GEOEGE T. BAKER. 



Last summer, in company with my friend Dr. Jordan, my holiday 

 was spent between Aosta, Chamouny, and G-eneva. Our route from 

 the ancient city of Aosta, with its interesting old remnants of Eoman 

 architecture, lay up the valley of the Buttier, and over the Great St. 

 Bernard Pass, where, of course, we stayed to see the famous monastery, 

 from there, following the course of the Dranse, we descended to 

 Martigny. This valley (of the Dranse) is certainly very bleak and 

 dreary, and the insect life therein not to be compared in richness with 

 that of the Yisp and Saas valleys, neither is its flora; to a certain extent, 

 however, this may have been owing to the extreme lateness of the sea- 

 son. From Martigny we walked over the Col de Forclaz, and Tete 

 Noire to Chaumouny, this was our only wet day ; after remaining there 

 for a few days we walked to Sallenches, took the diligence from thence 

 to Geneva, where we stayed for about three days. It was then time 

 to turn our faces homewards, but on our way we stopped for a day at 

 Dole, in the extreme west of the Jura district, where we were by no 

 means idle. "We started on the 14th of June, and were much favoured 

 in the weather, from a tourist's point of view, not so, however, from 

 an Entomological one, as our captures were by no means up to the 

 average, especially among the Rhopalocera, but, as remarked before, 

 this may have been due to the great backwardness of the season, which 

 may be realized when I say that on the 21st of June, the whole of the 

 Great St. Bernard Pass was entirely covered with snow, and we were 



