THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLI.] NOVEMBEE, 1908. [No. 546. 



MALACOSOMA NEU STRIA Ab. 



By the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, F.E.S. 



The above curious aberration of M. neustria was reared on 

 August 26th, 1907, by Mr. Frederick Palin, of Ashton Mill, near 

 Oundle, from a cocoon collected in the village of Ashton. 



THE BASSES-ALPES IN AUGUST. 

 By H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



Circumstances conspired to keep me in London until the 

 end of July, and to shorten the days which each year I endeavour 

 to devote to the study of the butterflies of the Continent. I 

 thought, however, that there might be compensations in a visit 

 to the Basses-Alpes, even thus late, and Erehia scipio was the 

 particular objective of my journey. My records for this in- 

 teresting species show that it affects the Dauphiny Alps as 

 well as the Dourbes at Digne. M. Chretien, an authority on 

 the mountain butterflies of France, has taken it at Monetier-les- 

 Bains : Mrs. Nicholl informs me that it occurred not uncommonly 

 some years back at Vallouise — both places within easy access of 

 the Brian^on railway. But never having tried Barcelonnette, 

 and finding that the French collectors of an earlier day had met 

 with it in this region, I detrained — most unluckily as it turned 

 out — at Prunieres, and the same evening (August Istj found 



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