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returned to catch my train at 10 a.m. the only butterflies I saw, 

 except a few Pieti^ rapae, were several Krebia sti/i/ne. 



Mende was reached by about 12.30, and I confess to a feeling of 

 satisfaction that for at least ten days another day would not be spent 

 inside a railway carriage ; it seems such a waste of time when you 

 are going through beautiful country to be penned up thus. After a 

 good " dejeuner " I made my way up to the ridge of the Causse, but 

 did not reach the top, as I struck a blind path, blind, that is to say, 

 on the side I had taken. The path was mostly through woods, 

 though here and there a nice open green space was met with, where 1 

 took Anthroccia hijipocrepidis, a single J. punctuiii var. contamineoides, 

 A. hilana, and a single A. fansta. This latter became more abundant 

 later on. Satyrns alcijone was by no means uncommon, and I also 

 took one S. dree. As I descended along the St. Privat path, Krebia 

 '^tyipie occurred on the screes to the left, but the few specimens I took 

 were generally allowed their freedom, as they were very worn indeed. 

 I returned to the hotel to find my friend come back from his day's 

 excursion, rejoicing in the fact that Hirsutina dolus was just coming 

 out, and that he had taken several that day. This species was really 

 the object of our visit ; for it we worked every day, and in the end 

 we were rewarded fairly satisfactorily. Mr. Jones knew a couple of 

 localities, where we found it sparingly each day. One was a stony 

 valley or gully about half a mile long, between more or less cultivated 

 fields, and leading up into the beautiful woods that clothe the hillsides 

 all around. Another was an open stony bend beside the river. In 

 each of these places we were, on the whole, not unsuccessful, but the 

 success was only obtained by hard plodding, at times, indeed, a real 

 and severe grind, as we paced up and down the stony places without 

 much green to refresh the eyes, the sun being cloudless the whole 

 time. Up and down our respective quarters we went, sometimes 

 passing each other, changing places, or comparing notes, with the 

 intense heat reflected from the ground around, to say nothing of the 

 sun's rays themselves, which ever and anon were so strong as 

 to compel a resort to the shade of some tine trees that fortu- 

 nately edged one side of the little valley. We were both of us, 

 however, determined not to return empty-handed. The first 

 day we each took two or three specimens, and many an Ayriades 

 coriduii was caught and released in mistake for tl. dnliis, whilst, im- 

 possible as it may seem, more than once I took Melanartjia (jalathea by 

 mistake in like manner, it was a very small form that 1 obtained 

 there, and I record it simply because it seems to be such an extra- 

 ordinary thing, but I find that others on the same quest have also 

 done the same thing. Hirsntiiut damon was equally common with 

 A. coridon, and many females did we take in the hope of their turning 

 out to be female 11. dolus; at times, of course, we were not disappointed. 

 I'lilyunniiatKs esrheri in both sexes was not uncommon, whilst I'lfbeius 

 arrjKs [aeijun) and Foli/onnnatHs icarua occurred sparingly. Lutveia 

 alci)iltr<i)t var. f/ordius was fairly abundant, the females being in 

 magnificent condition. I also took on the same ground a single L. 

 dorilis and a few I', /lylas, the latter, however, were becoming passr. 

 One day, as we were going from our hunting ground to the small 

 wayside inn to quench a consuming thirst, we knocked oft' some 

 clematis bushes one or two Celantrina (Lycaenopsis) arf/ialns of the 



