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Camilla, which was sometimes very fresh. I also took the beetle 

 Pac/n/ta (jiiadriiiiariilata, and at La Thuile one specimen of the bee 

 Boiiibiis disthviuendns. Edelweiss grows commonly round La Thuile, 

 but it is not easy to find the first specimen, its diity grey-white colour 

 harmonising so well with the rocky ground on which it occurs. 



Aui/Hnt. ith. — To-day I climbed to the top of Mt. Grammont behind 

 Pre-St.-Didier, which is 9,059 ft. high and very steep. The view of 

 the whole Alpine expanse from the summit was glorious, but the 

 higher part of the mountain was practically denuded of insect life. 

 P. ajHdlo was numerous but getting worn. I also got the Ichneumon 

 Aiiiblijtdes fusoriiis, fairly high up, and the moths Clcot/eiui hitearia, 

 Scutosia dubitata, Boarmia refiandata, B. rhoiiiboidaria (qenniiaria), 

 Plnsia iota, Gnophon }nyrtillata, Lij<iris pojtidata, etc., in returning 

 through the pine woods above Pre-St.-Didier, also the dragon-fly 

 Syiiijietriiiii atriolatiiiii. In the same woods I also took specimens of 

 the Hymenoptera Halictas i^e.rciiirtiis and AniiHdpkila sabidosa. This 

 evening I took at light in the Hotel Univers the moth Cosiiiia 

 jyalearea. 



Aiiijiist 5th. — To-day, walking up the right bank of the river Dora 

 Baltea under the Grammont towards Dollens, I caught a fine specimen 

 of Dryas papJtia ab. $ valesina, but little else out of the ordinary 

 except the Ichneumon Atnblyteles fiisnrina. U. crocena (ediim) and C. 

 hyale were common. Near Courmajeur I got the grasshoppers 

 Podisma friyidion and Locuata riridissiiiia, and was glad to turn in for 

 a well-earned meal at the Hotel Unione at Courmayeur, where I found 

 my old friend the proprietor, Signor Cav. Ruffier, very well. 



Avyust ijth. — To-day I motored to the Col of the Petit 8t. Bernard, 

 where there is a fine Alpine garden close to the Hospice, and walked 

 back after dejeuner at the Hospice, which was crowded with tourists, 

 as far as La Balme below La Thuile, about 20 kilometres. There 

 was very little insect life on the higher parts of the Pass, but Brenthis 

 palea, rather worn, were common near the lake below the Hospice, and 

 lower down Erebia tyndarux were frequent. I got the grasshoppers 

 Podisnia pedestre, Chrysochraun brachypteriis, and Avniicoitatiis alpinns 

 (male and female), on the higher slopes of the Pass, all new to me. 

 Between La Thuille and La Balme I picked lip on the dusty road a 

 fine larva of the moth Ueilephila galii, which very soon after pupated. 

 It produced a fine moth in June, 1922. 



AiKjust Sth. — L. Camilla, M. phoebe, and Imiria lathonia were 

 common to-day on the roadsides between Pre-St.-Didier and La 

 Thuile, but little else were worth taking. Nearly every insect was 

 so worn and over, and the floweis were all finished this parched year. 

 Mont Blanc also might almost this year be styled " Monte Bruno " 

 instead of " Monte Bianco," from the large masses of rock quite clear 

 from snow. It is too late this season for the High Alps, and on the 

 recommendation of the nephew of Doctor Festa of Turin Museum 

 whom I fortunately met at Pre-St.-Didier to-day, I decided to leave 

 and to go down to Nus, in the sub-Alps between Aosta and Ivrea, 

 which he told me was weil watered and worth trying. He also gave 

 me a specimen of the Bee EameneK unyuivtdus, taken at Pre-St.-Didier. 



Auynst dth. — I was very glad I took my Italian friend's advice. 

 This small village of Nus, with a railway station and the (only) Hotel 

 Bordon, is quite close to the pretty Val di Barthelemi, which I com- 



