10 THE KNTOMOLOGISt's RECORD. 



moment the red vision increased till all the fiery orb appeared in view 

 — but alas ! that was all, for almost as rapidly a vast bank of black 

 cloud rose up in front and hid from our sight all the wondrous colours 

 that would otherwise have greeted us. 



The whole summit is a waste of stone, but I did pick a few little 

 asters nestled cosily in sheltered corners, and the pink, Silene acanlis, 

 I believe. How Ave wished we could have remained for a time, the 

 wind was so bitter and so strong that the shelter of the hotel was the 

 wiser course for my wife. Our chauffeur, however, was good enough 

 to lead the way for me across the side of the bare mountain (une jolie 

 promenade) to see "une jolie source " issuing forth from the mountain 

 side — certainly I should never have found the way alone for there was 

 no track and the so called path had a bare precipice on the one side 

 and the equally steep mountain rising up on the other, but it was 

 nothing to those who knew the way and so we arrived at the " jolie 

 source," which consisted of a wee stream of water issuing through a 

 short leaden pipe out of the heart of the mountam and so trickling 

 down to the valley far below. 



But alas all things come to an end and we had to wend our way 

 back, and much quicker than we came did the automobile carry us 

 down to the sunny realms below, where we were not sorry to have an 

 hour's rest before partaking of our mid-day dejeuner. 



The difficulties of working this isolated mountain were not 

 altogether small, I was roughly at least six kilometres from the nearest 

 good locality, the village of Ste. Colombe about four kilometers away 

 up a gradual ascent with a further two kilometers to Saint Esteve, 

 another tiny village, en route to the summit, had to be passed before 

 arriving at any collecting ground that was at all satisfactory and from 

 Ste. Colombe to St. Esteve the gradient was heavy. I was able to 

 borrow a bicycle once or twice from my kind host up to the former 

 place, but beyond there this method of progression was quite impossible 

 and after St. Esteve the gradient slowly increased right up almost to • 

 the summit. It will be seen therefore that collecting was somewhat 

 arduous and to add to the difficulty water was almost unprocurable, 

 there being only two little founts on the south side of the mountain, 

 one of which I did not find and the other was only a short way from 

 the summit. I was fortunate in having the loan of a large scale map 

 of the mountain all marked out with the best collecting localities. 

 Mr. H. Brown had been good enough to lend me this so that t was 

 thus able to go straight to some good spots. The first of these spots 

 was a little distance above St. Esteve at an elevation of about 2500 

 feet, after which collecting was profitable almost up to the " fontaine 

 de la Grave " over 4600 feet high. All along the route and in the by- 

 paths on the sides of the mountain, as we ascend, there are plenty of 

 flowers and low vegetation, whilst an abundance of trees line the road 

 for a considerable distance above the same hamlet. 



Po/iilin j)0'lalii ills was still on the wing and in very good condition, 

 a single I'ieris ra]ia<' and one Le/itosia Khiajiis were caught. (Jolias 

 liyale was evidently just emerging, the three or four specimens I 

 captured being in beautiful condition Avith their pink fringes intact, I 

 did not, however, see one C. crocens (edusa). Goneptenix rlfopatra was 

 flying, but all the specimens showed signs of age. Thirsty and 

 getting weary with a long day's work, for I had left Bedoin 



