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34. Argynnis Niobe : road between Marligny and Great 

 St. Bernard. 



Sion. — 1. Papilio Podalirius : steep rocks by Castle of 

 Sion. 2. Pieris Daplidice : steep rocks by Castle of Sion. 

 3. Minois Actoea : steep rocks by Castle of Sion. 



Jei'sey. — 1. Pieris Daplidice : St. Oiien's Bay. 2. Argynnis 

 Lathonia : St. Ouen's Bay. 3. Satyrus Ma)ra. 



Wiesbaden. — 1. Gonepteryx llharani : Russian cemetery. 



Venice. — 1. Colias Edusa: Botanical Gardens. 2. Va- 

 nessa Cardui : Botanical Gardens. 



St. Malo. — 1. Papilio Macliaon. 



Lucerne. — 1. Argynnis Lathonia. 2. Vanessa Cardui. 



It remains for me merely to supplement the above very 

 fragmentary data by stating that, as far as my own success in 

 collecting is concerned, I decidedly give the preference to the 

 Vallais over any other district. The foregoing facts stand for 

 what they are worth. My knowledge is too imperfect, and 

 my stay was too limited, in tlie localities mentioned, for me 

 to attempt an elaborate generalization, as regards the wide- 

 spread range of certain species, and the local occurrence or 

 total absence of others. 



F. A. Walker. 



_ Entomological Notes, Captures, S^c. 



Notes on the Red and Blue Varieties of CEdipoda Ger- 

 manica. — So far as my very imperfect knowledge of this 

 insect extends, its red and blue varieties are about equally 

 common, occurring, however, by no means in the same pro- 

 portion in each place, as while travelling on the Continent I 

 have observed the red alone almost exclusively in one spot, 

 .and similarly the blue in another; while in a third locality I 

 jhave noticed both forms, though not in equal plenty. But as 

 mine are necessarily hurried notes of a passer through the 

 different countries where I remarked the said grasshopper, as, 

 for exam))le, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Corsica, it is 

 not at all improbable but that a longer investigation, as well 

 as a more careful and further extended search, would succeed 

 in discovering the red, where I only found the blue, and 

 vice versa. The fact that both varieties are undoubtedly 

 found in one and the same place, would seem to ])recUide 



