LUPERINA GUENEEI AS A SPECIES. 17 



Next day, July 20th, was my last day's collecting at Courmayeur. 

 I climbed Mt. Chefcif in good time. The view from the summit is not 

 so good as from Mt. de la Saxe, and the climb is not so arduous, but 

 the flies bothered me a great deal, more so than the mosquitoes in the 

 evenings at Martigny, Near the summit, in some damp alpine 

 meadows, I found C'hrijaophaniis /(//)/>oiAoe in great abundance and fresh, 

 also Heocles virgaureae, and at the summit a few C. pldcomone and 

 high mountain vars. of B. pales. Next morning I set out at 8.0 a.m. to 

 walk from Courmayeur to the Restaurant du Col Ferret. It is a stiff walk, 

 and the hot sun beat down with force. In the Val Ferret I only goD two 

 specimens of H. damon var. ferret i, a purplish tinge taking the place of the 

 ordinary damon blue. Just where the road ended and the mountain 

 track commenced, I was fortunate to meet with seven or eight fine 

 P. deliKs and a host of B. pales (type). It is a very stiff climb over 

 the Col Ferret, and when one tried to rest a moment, the fierce sun 

 made one's boots begin to scorch and one was forced to stagger on 

 wearily, until one reached some haven of shelter from the fierce heat 

 under the other side of the hill. After reaching the Restaurant du Col 

 Ferret that night, which is eight miles from the nearest post office, I 

 found one or two French and German guests staying at that lonely 

 inn, and I much enjoyed the cleanest and most comfortable bed, I 

 think, I ever slept in. Next day, leaving the Restaurant at 9.0 a.m., 

 by way of Praz de Fort to Orsieres I took en route some nice E. lii/ea, A. 

 aijlaia, E. aethiops {blandina), etc., and between Orsieres and Sem- 

 brancher I was pleased to take two fine A. paphia var. ralesina, one 

 /'. machaon, one 0. hera, one L. arion, etc. Near the large iron 

 drawbridge over the Drance above Bovernier is a nice bed of thyme, 

 beloved of L. arion, H. damon (males and females), and other species. 

 Next day, Sunday, July 23rd, after attending Martigny Church at 

 7.30 a.m., I sauntered quietly along under the cliffs towards Vernayaz, 

 not doing any serious collecting, but looking out for anything good 

 that might be about and collecting what I could for an entomological 

 friend in England. P. podaliriiis was more abundant, and also a few 

 female H. vinjaureae. I left Martigny for Lausanne and Dijon that 

 afternoon and reached Fontainebleau - Avon Station again next 

 morning at 9.80 a.m. It was awfully hot here, and I was told that 

 fires had been raging in the forest the previous day. After wandering 

 about the forest for a few hours, where I took P. machaon, B. selene 

 (second brood), C' hyale, Loireia dorilis and two more A. levana var. 

 prorsa, a heavy storm commenced at 3.30 p.m., and I took the train 

 forthwith to Paris and caught the 9.10 p.m. express to Calais and 

 London on that night from the Gare du Nord. The grand total of 

 my catch during sixteen days' actual collecting was 1,128 specimens, 

 nearly all in good condition, besides a few larvse of Pyrameis cardui, 

 etc., which produced imagines later. 



Luperina (?) (Apamea) gueneei, Doubleday, as a species, and as 

 a British species. 



By Hy. J. TURNER, F.E.S. 

 At the conclusion of my previous notes under the above heading in 

 the last volume of the Entomologist's Record, I expressed the hope that 

 " during the coming season some of our continental workers will be 



