48 THE kntomologist's rkcokd. 



hotel electric light a species of the Moth Hecatera serciia, a Hoarnria 

 crcpKsciilaria, a specimen of the Neuropteron Cliri/sopa nthiaris, Schn., 

 together with the Hymenopteron I'iuipla iuxtiiiator, and the moth hiaea 

 similata, Thanh. 



Jul}'^ 16th.— This afternoon 1 collected for the last time on the 

 Grand Saleve, taking the funicular railwa,y up to Les Treize Arbres 

 where there is a decent restaurant. Round the summit P. machaon 

 were still numerous and fresh, and I was glad to add to xny list for 

 this tour the Beetle Mi/labris rariabilis, Pallas. I also found /.. arioyi 

 in quite good condition near to the summit and several good specimens 

 oi Z. carniolica, together with a specimen of the Rhynchota l'i'iitat<i)iia 

 jnniperiH. I found the males of the Orthopteron Arci/fitera fiisca, Pallas, 

 still in quite fresh condition to-day and I took also a specimen of 

 Staiirodenis srcih'iis, F.W. Krebia lii/ea were in excellent condition, 

 also the iik\]i])ev' Hesperia serratnl(ie,JXhr., and Kndrosa ann'ta. I took 

 the very large Bee, PHitlnjniH rnpestris, close by the summit and one 

 specimen of Z. fausta var. nireae. Amongst the flowers the most 

 noticeable were Campanula f/loiiierata in great quantities and the 

 pretty red CyclaineH perse wbich was in blossom in some quantity 

 on the lower slopes of the Saleve. A good many moths frequently 

 came to the electric light at the Hotel de France, where I was .staying 

 at Annemasse, the most noticeable being the Brown Tail Moth in some 

 quantities; one Lobster Moth, Stain-opus fat/i, also appeared. 



I left Annemasse in the evening of July 16th and arrived in Paris 

 next morning, I took the early afternoon train out to the station of 

 St. Germain en Laye, in the Foret du Saint Germain, from the Gare 

 St. Lazare. This part of the forest is no good for collecting as all the 

 undergrowth is trodden down and 1 saw* few plants of interest, but 

 farther out from Paris, on the main line of the Chemin de Per d'Etat 

 from the Gare St. Lazare, 1 saw from the train many parts in which 

 it would probably pay to collect judging by the abundance of plants 

 in blossom. 



I reached London on the evening of July 18th after an interesting 

 tour. My thanks are due amongst others to Mr. Durrant. Capt. 

 Waterstone, Mr. Prout, and Dr. Uvaroff, at the Natural History 

 Museum, and also to the Rev. F. D. Morice, for helping to name many 

 of the species mentioned in this article and in the previous one on 

 collecting in the French Jura at Gex in June-July, 1920. 



Amongst the most interesting plants in blossom in the Annemasse 

 district which I noted were: — (1) On the Petit Saleve, F.njthraea 

 centunriiuii, Jasione nwntana, Onut/ioi/aliini iDiibellatam ; (2) On Les 

 Voiron, Gentiana liitea, Pision arveiise. Genista pilosa ; (3) On the Grand 

 Saleve, Adenusti/les albifrons, I >iiiitalis liitca, Genista sat/ittalis, Cam- 

 panula (jloinerata. Campanula r/ioHiboidalis ; On the Mole, Aqidlefiia 

 vulgaris, Astrantia nwjor, Digitalis (jrandiiiitra, Gentiana lutea ; (6) On 

 the Point des Brasses, Geranium si/lraticum, Dianthns saj;ifra(.fus, 

 Diantlius sj/lvestris, Centaurea montana. Digitalis ambigua, Gentiana 

 verna, iJiantlius superhus. 



Sale of the Farn CoUection. 



On February 14th last there was sold at Steven's Auction Rooms 

 the first portion of the above well-known collection, formed by the 



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