96 THE entomologist's record. 



emerged from pupae of larvse collected at Eastbourne in July. On 

 August 11th I left for fourteen days at Paignton, S. Devon, where, 

 however, entomology had to take second place, but I managed to get a 

 few insects. On the 12th the second broods of D. capsinrola and 

 D. carpophaija commenced to emerge from pupse of larva? collected on 

 8th July near Croydon, and continued to do so throughout August and 

 September. My first T. anrai/o (New Forest) also emerged, and I took 

 ray first />'. muralia {ulaiulifera) in Devon, a nice dark form at rest on 

 a stone bridge. I also saw a freshly emerged P. atalanta, one or tw^o 

 C an/ioliis, and one 1>. perla. On the 15th I discovered a large mass 

 of «S'. niaritinia overhanging the rocks on the shore. There were still 

 plenty of flowers and buds, and on visiting it again at dusk I netted 

 five />. cucithali one 7>. capsincnla, and a few 7'. f/iviiiiia. The 

 two former were all females rather worn and very busy ovipositing. 

 1 also found full-fed larvte of both, some of which were ichneumoned. 

 One larva of D. ciiciibali produced a brood of 15 M. tn'stis, on August 

 28th, and two others produced 12 and 19 of the same parasite on Sep- 

 tember 6th. These were bred out and identified for me by Mr. G. T. 

 Lyle, to whom T sent the stung larvfe, and to whom my thanks are 

 due. 



Strange to say during the whole of my stay this clump of 

 S. in a tit i ma did not produce D. carpopliaija in any stage. On the 16th, 

 however, on a roadside flower of .S. injlata, I found five ova of 

 D. carpaphafia, which unfortunately hatched while I was away for a 

 day, and died. 



{To be continued.) 



The Dauphine Alps. 



By DOUGLA.S H. PEARSON, F.E.S. 



Before deciding upon a holiday this year in the Dauphine Alps, I 

 looked up past notes in the luroid, but could find very little information 

 beyond Mr. Tutt's articles in 1898, and Mr. Rowland- Brown's in 1899, 

 so that the district does not seem to have been overrun by 

 entomologists. 



Mr. Rowland Brown very kindly gave me some information about 

 the insects to be found in the Susa valley, and thus armed we left 

 home on June 20th for Grenoble, and thence to Bourg d'Oisans, a 

 pretty spot with a small but comfortable hotel near the station. The 

 weather was not good and the only insects taken were, ( 'ontonynipha 

 arcania, Satyrus /iertiii<i)U', Lycaena avion, and Mrlitaca didyina. 



In the woods near Puy the beautiful orange lily, Lilimn crocenni^ 

 was blooming with other interesting flowers. A very comfortable 

 service of motors has replaced the old diligences m this district, and 

 greatly adds to the pleasure of travelling, although the pace at which 

 they take "hair pin" corners is apt to add to one's stock of grey hairs. 

 On June 26th wo motored up the beautiful road to La Grave, where 

 we hoped to take F.rebia neoridas, Melitaea deione and other good 

 things — hopes which were doomed to disappointment as a bitterly cold 

 wind persisted while we were there, and indeed throughout most of our 

 holiday, so that in spite of a blazing sun, insects were very loth to 

 appear. On the ground behind the hotel, we took (', //*///.s, Erebia 



