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the higher slopes I had found quite fresh specimens of /'. dainon, but 

 not abundant. They and both sexes of A. ai/laia and A(/lais mticae 

 were the most generally distributed butterflies on " levels " between 

 the highest point of the Sa<leve and the point where the Grand Gorge 

 begins. After a tedious descent after a hot day I finally found myself 

 resting at Archamps station at 7.0 p.m., and was not sorry to reach 

 Annemasse about 8, after an afternoon of a good deal of fatigue with- 

 out great results. A small larva of an Orthopteron of the genua 

 Anhoitteya with very long antennae I have not succeeded in identifying. 

 July 8th. — To-day ascending the Grand Saleve, I walked down 

 from Les Treize Arbres station to Monnetier-Eglise, an easy two 

 hours' walk in ordinary weather, but the hettvy showers of rain com- 

 pelled me to shelter frequently. Whilst sheltering, I found a swarm 

 of the ant, Formica nifa, around one tree-trunk and in a state of great 

 activity. However, I got a good series of P. danion males ]Dicked off 

 the flower heads, together with the first male of ^//r/wf/cs coriihm which 



1 had seen this year, quite perfect, and a few Burnets. A fellow passenger 

 in the train in returning had brought down from the Saleve a fine 

 specimen of the great Yellow Gentian {(Tcntiaiia Intea) in flower which 

 he had dug out with its roots. He told me it took him quite 10 

 minutes to dig it out, so deeply is this plant rooted into the limestone. 

 It is common on the higher parts of the Jura, Les Voirons, and the 

 Grand Saleve, and doubtless in many other localities as high or 

 higher. This evening I took at light another male of the Moth Mala- 

 cosoma neustria, as well as a specimen of the Dipteron, Syrjihiis 

 balteatiis. 



July 9th. — To-day I took the morning train to St. Jeoire on the 

 line towards Samoens and ascended the Mole, 6,180 ft. The day 

 turned out disastrously, as the sun never appeared, the rain descended 

 and the floods came, and I ended with "dejeuner" in a small chalet near 

 the summit with a cowherd, his wife and boy, two horses, three cows 

 and half-a-dozen chickens. However, I was thankful for the shelter. 

 After the rain stopped I got a few flowers I wanted and a specimen of 

 the moth Bnanina consortaria, with a few Burnets, including Zijiiaena 

 alpina and X. lonicerae, together with the Diptera CkrijKotnxHm 

 festintin, L., lika/fio {Lci'tis) cintspiciins, otherwise the day was a blank. 

 However, whilst returning to Annemasse in the evening the sun came 

 out and the sunset and sky gave promise of better weather. 



July 10th. — This morning the sun rose with a cloudless sky and 

 shone like a giant all day. I took the 8.50 a.m. train from Annemasse 

 to Bossey-Veyrier, and leaving that station worked up through the 

 woods parallel with the foot of the Grand Saleve towards Bossey and 

 on to the smaller hamlet of Crevin. Soon after leaving the station I 

 took a fine Ffd^niesya aiitiopa in good condition close by a cafe, and 

 walking on by some small clearings found P. daninn, A. curidon and 

 /'. icanis. all males, in abundance, together with a sprinkling of 

 iV. iUcis, males and females, all in good condition. Walking on 

 through the woods towards Bossey I came later to a small fir planta- 

 tion in which I got the dragon-fly Aeschna ci/anea, Miill., two, one in 

 good condition and one rather worn. Iia this plantation is a small 

 pond round which I took the small dragon-flies I'lprhosnma inpiiiihula, 



2 males and 2 females, together with male speciniens of lachnnra 

 elef/ana, and of Ayrion piilckeUniii, Lin. Leaving the plantation whore 



