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A. /ntj/hia was common on brambles, I turned into rough pastures 

 where I found L. arion (2), I', .semian/iis [acis) abundant, and a female 

 var. tiavidor (?) of Plebeins aei/on. There is a good restaurant at Bossey. 

 After lunch 1 tried an artificial sheet of water there, used in connection 

 with an horticultural establishment, for dragon-fiies, but without 

 success, getting only a small and imma,tuve Agrioji. Reaching Crevin, 

 I made my way slowly back to Bossey-Veyrier station, taking on the 

 way Bithys (Thecla) qiiercm, a male ; a male of the dragon-fly 

 Calopteryx virgo, a female of which I also noticed, and a small speci- 

 men of KiKjonia poli/chloro.s. Pyranieis atalanta, J'anc^na in, Aylais 

 nrticae and A. aylaia were flying about thistle-blossoms, and a number 

 of the commoner Burnet Moths were abundant, including Zyijai'na 

 achilleae, many quite fresh. Altogether the day was the most inter- 

 esting I so far had here. This evening I took at light a specimen of 

 the Hemipteron, Itednciiia jiersonatm. 



July 11th. — This afternoon I went up by funicular to Monnetier- 

 Marie and spent a few hours collecting there, and on to Monnetier- 

 Eglise, where there are some good hotels and generally some English 

 visitors. To-day being Sunday a large number of people had come 

 up, as IS their wont, from Geneva and Veyrier, and the little village 

 was crowded with a swarm of quiet, happy people. P. apnllo was 

 flying in some numbers about 4 p.m. in the higher fields between 

 Monnetier-Marie and Monnetier-Eglise, and I made a good selection 

 with some fine fresh females included. The females of A. coridoyi 

 were out and those of P. daiiion were becoming more numerous. I 

 also took the beetle, Siliiha obscura, L., and the Burnet Moths Zyyaena 

 acldlleae, Esp. and Zyyaena al/nna, and a fine male of the Orthopteron 

 LocKsta [Phasyoniira) viridisainta, L. I got little else and the heat 

 was intense on the Saleve. I found on getting home that I had also 

 captured a specimen of the pretty red and black Rhynchota Pyrrhocoris 

 apterus. 



July 12th. — To-day I took the P.L.M. early morning express to La 

 Roche-sur-Foron, whence I walked via Le Cret, the Chalets de Balme 

 to the Col de Balajoux, 1560 metres. It was a long walk up to 

 Orange, and it is necessary to carry food for dejeuner these times, but 

 I got on to very good collecting ground immediately above the Chalets 

 de Balme onwards that repaid the hard morning walk in the hot sun. 

 I did not cross the Col down to S. Pierre sur Rurailly as 1 had 

 intended but returned to La Roche-sur-Foron in the late afternoon the 

 same way I had ascended in the morning. Above the Chsilets de 

 Balme I found the males and females of lirenthis aiiiathnaia flying in 

 abundance and very fresh, together with Erehia iiianto and K. liyea, 

 the latter less commonly. Both these Erebiae were in excellent 

 condition. I also took one male of H. riryanreae, a male and female 

 of Colias phicomone, the male had apparently just emerged, and one or 

 two specimens of J^ycaena avion. I saw a large dragon-fiy in the 

 mountain woo^s which I failed to identify. I also got a fine specimen 

 of Aryynnix niobe var. (')-/.s. My bag, for the day totalling to 38 perfect 

 specimens, constituted my best day's outing this year. I saw nothing 

 at all below the Chalets de Balme. This evening I took a specimen of 

 Port/icaia r/irysorrlioea at light at my hotel at Annemasse. 



July 14th. — -The National Fete Day in France. I took the 6.48 

 a.m. train from Annemasse to St. Jeoire on the steam tramway line to 



