74 ALPINE FLOWERS AND GARDENS 



Look yonder at that clear-yellow one skipping 

 so briskly over the bushes : it has all the gay allure 

 of the British Pale Clouded-Yellow, of which it 

 must be no very distant cousin. It is Collas 

 Palceno, whose food-plant is the Rhododendron. 

 Its presence is reminiscent of English clover-fields 

 — especially now that a really familiar member of 

 the family, the Dark Clouded- Yellow, comes racing 

 by. Palceno is a very beautiful insect. There is 

 something so broad and pure about its design and 

 colouring. Beautiful as is Edusa, the Dark 

 Clouded- Yellow, or as is Hyale, the Pale Clouded- 

 Yellow, this, their relative, at once strikes us as of 

 greater, simpler refinement — refinement altogether 

 in keeping with Alpine circumstance. Following 

 the rule for insects, the female is more modestly 

 apparelled ; but, although she is paler, she is 

 charming — fit consort for her black and citron- 

 coloured lord. Then, again, that bright little chest- 

 nut-coloured insect, with thin black markings, flitting 

 so swiftly from Dandelion to Dandelion, is Argynnis 

 Pales, blood-relation of our small Fritillaries. 

 Those Browns, too, playing about among the 

 stones and grasses, are close connections of our 

 Meadow Brown. And there, gambolling in the 

 air, are two bright Blues, which at first sight it is 



