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gleams, and I saw little but a few typical Brentkis pales of both sexes. 

 'The whole way up the Pass it became duller and colder, and on 

 reaching the Teufelsthal it would have been impossible to find any 

 scene more dreary, lonely, and (in its strictest sense), awful; I felt at 

 once that if I were an artist, instead of a mere dabbler in water-colour 

 landscapes, I would choose this wild, desolate valley, strewn with huge 

 boulders from the granite peak on the right, and smaller debris from 

 the limestone crags on the left, as the scene for a picture of the 

 Temptation ; so far does its obvious suitability exceed any inaccuracies 

 of detail. Natiually it was only just before emerging from tbis scene 

 of desolation that anything in the way of a butterfly put in an 

 appearance, and then it was a single typical specimen of E. f/orf/e. 

 Just before reaching the top of the pass there is a small depression in 

 the grassy slope to the right which looks as if it would cut of!" a corner, 

 and on to which I made my way ; here, in spite of a wind of piercing 

 coldness and the complete absence of sun, a small insect got up under 

 my feet and flew for a yard or two close to the ground, I placed my 

 net over it, and instantly found it to be the long coveted Melitaea 

 <isteria : for an hour and a half I waited about in this spot, (where I 

 shortly took a second), and beyond and below it, seeing one (Julias palaeno, 

 & few Melitaea inerope, (I refrain intentionally from saying anrinia, 

 var. vierope), and Irrenthia pales, one or tAVO Erebia lappona and 

 several black and white " skippers," all but one of which proved to be 

 Hespeiia androwedac, the one exception being H. cacaliae. It will save 

 farther reference to the top of the Pass, if I say at once that on my 

 second expedition to this point on July 13th, a bright sunny day, I 

 •came across the same species with the exception of (,'. palaeno, M. asteria 

 being common but very local, confined, in fact, to the flowery dip in 

 which I first found it, and the " skippers " exactly changing places, 

 all but one on the second occasion being //. cacaliae. I started, on 

 the 9th, to go down the Pass by a path on my right, but was stopped 

 by an assurance that it was forbidden, on the ground of something or 

 somebody being " krank," but the speaker's German and mine being 

 about equally bad, I could only grasp the fact that I must return by 

 the road, a long and very unprofitable detour. However, the weather 

 became warmer and the gleams of sun more frequent as I got lower, 

 and after passing the Weissenstein Inn I began to see some butterflies 

 again. The species were not very numerous nor were the specimens, 

 but I came across ('. phicuiiione, which I also saw near Preda station, 

 Erebia pharte, E. ti/ndarns, E. stjppie, A', lii/ea var. adi/te, Ac/riades 

 -coridon, Loireia .siibalpina, two small Jlesperia alreiis (I believe), one of 

 which has a short white streak on the left hindwing, upper side, and 

 one specimen of Hesperia andromedae. At Preda I was too late for 

 the train, and had to continue the descent on foot to Bergiin, finding 

 nothing on the way except a few K. stipine. 



The morning of the 10th was wet, but it cleared up in the after- 

 noon and I confined my attentions to the neighbourhood of Bergiin. 

 This of course is famous as one of Zeller's great hunting-grounds, and 

 also attracted the attention, both of Frey and Riihl, but in July it 

 hardly seems a rich locality. I took both Melitaea athalia and ^1/. 

 ainelia, but if the specimen 1 found of the latter is to be regarded as 

 var. rhaetica, Riihl, then every example from the Rhone Valley must 

 .also be considered to be such ; as to M. athalia, though the specimens 



