Io8 LÉPIDOPTÉROLOGIE COMPARÉE 



1908, 27th Jime. Not yet out. 



5th July. 3 d"s, I Q fresh. 

 I2th July. Well out, cf's worn. 



1909, I7th July. Well out, cf's worn. 



28th July. Still out, cf's very worn, g 's good. 



1910, 3ist July. A few, very fresh (very late season). 



191 1, 8th July. Not common, cf's worn (very early season). 

 I5th July. Not common, cf's worn. 



191 2, 22nd June. Not yet out. 



30th June. About 8 cf's quite fresh. 



" The last week in June seems to be the normal time of appea- 

 rance hère. I hâve a record by another collecter of one taken as 

 late as the first week in August. 



" C. tiphon does not seem to fly very freely, even in bright 

 sunshine. It moves a short distance with a slow jerky flight but 

 can travel quickly enough when frightened. My usual plan is to 

 " quarter " the ground, and so walk it up. When settled it often 

 turns over so as to lie with the folded wings horizontal, that is 

 parallel to the plane of the ground. I hâve never seen it at flowers. 

 It settles on grass, rushes, heather, or sweet gale. In dull cool 

 weather it often drops down into the roots t)f the herbage. 



" Of my séries of thirty four, Buckell's description of the Middle 

 Form is applicable to every siDecimen. The hairy greenish under- 

 side is very noticeable ail through. I hâve several times kept 

 females for ova which they lay on grass stems (or on the leno 

 covcring of the cage). I once boxed a female, and found an ovum 

 just laid by her; unfortunately I failed to note whether on Air a, 

 or Rhynchospora. " 



b) IS! orth-W est En gland. 



Returning to the Scottish border in the north-west, and to a 

 land of moss, and fell, Cumberland is the idéal county for the 



