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the drought, but I noted the following insects (besides a number 

 of commoner ones) : Satyrtis hermione, CalUmorpha hera, Zy<jaena 

 lilipendiilae (a small form), the grasshopper Chnrt/n'ppiiH jiaraUelns, and 

 the Dipteron Krit^talis arbiistoriwi, all of which I secured together with 

 & fine male of the moth Lasiocampa qiiernh, which dashed straight 

 into my net, as I tried to secure it, and the Hymenoptera Cerrerin 

 lahiata and Aiinnaphila sabiilona, also the Dipteron (^'annpa f'aripes. 



Leaving Paris the night of July 23rd I reached Chambery early 

 next morning and devoted the day to the motor tour of the Grande 

 Chartreuse, from Chambery by Les Eschelles and St. Laurent du 

 Pont to the Convent, and back to Chambery ria Grenoble ; an 

 exceedingly pleasant and interesting day's trip. Above the Grande 

 Chartreuse I found Krebia li/jea in profusion and very fresh, and also 

 the grasshopper Stanroilentfi .scalaris, though not much else of any 

 account, but I only had a comparatively short time to do any 

 collei-ting. One or two specimens of the dragon-fly, ArscJuia i/ramlis, 

 were fl.ying over the small pond between the Convent and the Chapel 

 of 8. Bruno higher up. Leaving Chambery on July 25th I reached 

 Susa in Piedmont via Modane and Bussoleno the same afternoon, and 

 on the 26th I set off early to walk from Susa to the village of Meana 

 and beyond towards the much higher slopes on which the little village 

 of Santa Maria della Losa is situated. Thanks to Mr. Tutt's and to 

 Mr. Rowland Brown's " Notes on Susa " in the Ent'imoloi/ist's Bccord 

 of past years, I was soon on good ground, and on that day I netted the 

 following insects, I'apilio tnachaon, P. podalii-hifi, Pierh iiiamii, 

 Poli/'iiiniiatiix nidear/er. male^, and females ab. stei-eni, S. hcruiinne, and 

 the moths C. Iiera and Diacrisia siniio {rnsaido). 



Pieturning to Sasa for dejeuner, I went out again at 5 p.m. along 

 the right bank of the River Dora Riparia down stream, which flows 

 through the town, and found the beetles, Arojiiia nioachata (in abund- 

 ance), and Hamniaticherus heros (one), in a hedge of willows ; together 

 with a number of the Hymenoptera foliates gallica and Vei^pa crabrn, as 

 well as a few of the butterflies Eutioma pnlychloros and Pyrameis 

 atalanta. which wei?e mostly settled amidst the foliage in the same 

 spot, in the hollows and angles of the boughs. 



July 21th to AKi/iist 1st. — I stayed on at Susa during this period 

 and collected again on the road past the village of Meana leading up 

 to the village of Santa Maria della Losa in great heat ; also on the 

 Mont Cenis Road, as well as on a more productive offshoot of this 

 road, leading towards Chiamonte, high up above the River Dora 

 Riparia, left bank. I found the road from Susa to Bussoleno not wortli 

 repeating from the collecting point of view and it is very shadeless. 

 I have little to add to the accounts of collecting at Susa by Mr. Tutt 

 and Mr. Rowland-Brown in past numbers of Tlie P.'ntoinuloyist's 

 Record. 



I only got one specimen of Lihythea iwltis, quite perftct, on July 

 28th, above Meana, on a large piece of rock abutting on the main road 

 towards Santa Maria della Losa, though I sa,w one or two specimens 

 which I failed to capture, as they were settled on the beginning of the 

 road towards Chiamonte on a shaded hilly zigzag very shortly after 

 leaving the Mont Cenis Road, just before passing under the first vine 

 trellis. Polygonia eyea swarmed everywhere near Susa, generally in 

 very good condition, especially on walls around vineyards in the 

 environs of the city. 



