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h'rebia foiled a hasty and ill-directed stroke, but it pat me on the ijui riff, 

 and so later on several /V. iiotij'' were made captives, line large specimens 

 too, decidedly larger than any Swiss ones. A little further along a 

 quite fresh /','. //o/v/o/n^ allowed me to box him ; and whilst doing this 

 a Zyg:enid flew past at a great rate, and 1 followed. Having tracked 

 him down 1 found I had a species new to me, with a very hairy body 

 and a central red band, it was of course Auf/imnro (uitlnjlUdis, but 1 

 only succeeded in taking one more of the species. Soon another l-'.rebia 

 tempted me to a run ; this time it was a nice female /'.'. epiji/noii with 

 very pale taAvny bands ; previous to this, soon after we had left the 

 snow, a few specimens of the genus IJeiri/na were noted sunning 

 themselves on the stones in the path. Two that I caught turned out 

 to be IJ. phii/j/ialis. Lower down, nearer to the Lac, two specimens 

 of Erebia lajipona were netted, one of them being quite fresh. This 

 was on August 6th. We were now nearing our goal, but w^ere yet in 

 the undulating pastures of the valley before reaching the far end of 

 the lake. Here R. t/anione was not uncommon, several of the speci- 

 mens being without the white pupil to the eye spot on the upperside. 

 /'/'. nun/e also occurred sparingly. Endmsa iirorella likewise occurred 

 here, and among them I took one quite good var. frinjeri, and also one 

 transition to it. We reached the hotel, if we may dignify it by the 

 name, in time for lunch, which we enjoyed in the covered place at the 

 head of the mountain lake. We stayed here the night, and I hunted 

 all round with very little result, only taking one Brent/iis jiales and one 

 /•'. cHplirosi/iic. The next morning we started early for Cauterets, 

 Avhere we had to wait till three o'clock for the train. We, however, 

 used the time to the best advantage, in lunching and in getting photo- 

 graphic mementoes of the neighbourhood. The only insects I took 

 were one Soti/nis alcijuuf, a fine i'aranir at'iiiTia, and one Aiitlirnreiti 

 irnnmljiina. The waterfalls were many all along the entire path, with 

 large volumes of watei-, and set in the midst of lovely surroundings. 

 The fall half way froui the Lac de Gaube to Cauterets (Cascade de 

 Cerisey) was one of the finest I have seen outside Norway. When we 

 arrived back at the hotel we found the proprietor had been quite 

 disturbed at our two nights' absence, and was only persuaded not to 

 send a relief party after us by Mr. Jones, who said that we had spoken 

 to him of the possibility of a two nights' absence. 



The next day was Sunday, and we were glad to be present in the 

 morning at the dedication of a new little English church for Gavarnie. 

 It was especially interesting as the foundations were laid and all was 

 built during the fortnight we stayed at the village- -of course the 

 upper portion was all of wood. The afternoon of that Sunday will be 

 memorable in our annals, for at ilricnitcr a hail storm of unusual 

 violence began. In the middle of the meal, the heavens having 

 become lilack with clouds, the storm suddenly broke with a torrent of 

 hail stones bigger than marbles; the noise was so great that everyone 

 rose from the tables to look, in live minutes the road began to flood, 

 the gradient in front of the hotel being great, the water and stones 

 ran down the hill to the stables in great volumes. The top lights of 

 the hotel in the roof were perfectly riddled by the force of the hail, 

 every animal fled for shelter, but it was not until later on that we 

 realised the full potency of what proved to be a record-breaking storm. 

 It lasted at (lavarnie about two hours. We had arranged to take a 



