194 THE ENTOMOLOaiST. 



variety of this species, with accompanying notes by the late 

 Mr. S. Stevens. This particular specimen was captured one 

 hundred and four years ago (1803) " at Peckham, near London," 

 by Mr. Howard, and recorded in the old Entomological Society's 

 Proceedings, and figured in J. F. Stephens's ' Illustrations of 

 British Entomology,' vol. i. 1828, and copied into Humphrey's 

 and Westwood's ' British Butterflies,' 1841, pi. 8, figs. 13, 14 ; as 

 these works are scarce, Mr. Stevens considered it desirable that 

 fresh figures of the insect should be given in this journal thirty 

 years ago. He states, at the sale of Haworth's collection in 

 1834, which contained the specimen in question, it was bought 

 by Dr. Ashburton, whose collection was likewise sold a few 

 years afterwards, when Mr. Stevens then purchased it, and at 

 the sale of the first portion of his fine collection at Stevens's 

 auction-rooms, on March 27th, 1900, the specimen again changed 

 hands. On comparing the illustrations of the two varieties, the 

 one I now figure is apparently the most beautiful and extreme 

 form of this variety, being further removed from typical athalia, 

 and on the under side the secondaries are perfectlj^ symmetrical 

 as regards markings, whereas in the figure published by Stevens 

 the markings do not correspond on these wings. 



NOTES ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF DIGNE. 



By Geeard H. Gueney, F.E.S., &c. 



After having been abroad, at Hyeres, for three weeks during 

 April of this year, I had not expected to have been on the Con- 

 tinent again until July ; however, owing to a variety of circum- 

 stances, I found I should not be able to leave England either 

 during July or August, but was able to get away for three weeks 

 in June, which sudden change of arrangements rather, for the 

 moment, upset my summer plan of campaign. However, this 

 was not of such an elaborate nature but that after a little con- 

 sideration I was able to adapt myself to circumstances, and 

 decide that my three weeks abroad — or, at any rate, a part of it 

 — should be spent at Digne ; and so, after the long and rather 

 tiring journey via Lyons, Grenoble, and Veynes, I found myself 

 deposited, with my luggage, on the platform at St. Aubau Station 

 at four o'clock on the afternoon of June 4th, where, after a short 

 wait of fifteen minutes, another train slowly trundled me on for 

 the short remaining half-hour it takes to get to Digne. I found 

 a comfortable room reserved for me at the 'Boyer Mistre Hotel,' 

 and, after a wash and a change, I went a short stroll before 

 dinner. The evening was glorious and very warm, and my 

 hopes rose with the thought of the rarities to be caught on the 

 morrow, and also with the charm, which never lessens, of once 



