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mountain barrier about 2500 ft. in height. The cols attain a mean 

 height of about GOO ft. and are cultivated in part, and produce vines 

 and olives. To the partly cultivated an almost wholly uncultivated 

 area succeeds densely covered with low flowering shrubs, chiefly 

 papilionaceous shrubs and cistus, and it is necessary for collecting 

 purposes to reach it. I soon found that the cols most frequented 

 by butterflies were the Col de I'Annonciade and the Col de la 

 Madone, especially the latter. I collected chiefly on these cols in 

 March, April, and May. I also collected a little in May, near' 

 Sainte Agnes. The only butterfly which I caught in March was 

 Pontia daplidice var. bellidice. In April I secured Papilio 

 podalirius (^,P- viachaon (pale form), Euchloe ansonia J and 2, 

 E. tagis var. hdlezina ^ , Gonepteryx cleopatra ^ , Pararge moera $ , 

 P. egeria var. egerides, Callophrys rubi (^ and $ , and Nomiades 

 vielanops. In May we caught Papilio viachaon (dark form), 

 Leptidia sinapis var. lathyri, Pararge mcera (^ , Scolitantides orioii 

 (^ and 9 , S. baton and N. cyllarus ^ and $ . Leptidia sinapis, was 

 caught again and L. duponcheli. Papilio machaon : Pale form, April 

 10th, 1917 ; dark form. May 11th, 1917 ; Col de I'Annonciade. There 

 are certainly in the neighbourhood of Menton pale and dark forms of 

 machaon. The dark examples are smaller than the pale ones and have 

 the ground colour markedly ochreous, and on these the sub-marginal 

 lunulate markings on the hind wings are larger than on the pale 

 examples which is the contrary of what one would expect. When 

 on the wing machaon looks darker than when in the hand. 

 There appears to be a fusion of yellow and black or of ochreous 

 and black during rapid motion. Tarucics telicanus : Apparently a 

 very variable species. A butterfly which I saw near Granada last 

 October resembled the telicanus caught near Menton but was much 

 darker ; some of the markings were almost black. Satyrus ahnathea, 

 Friv., October 11th, 1916 : This species has apparently not been 

 recorded from the Riviera.'*' Lyccena anon, May 5th, 1917 : Examples 

 were thickly powdered with purple scales. I also caught (October 

 3rd, 1916), a P. teams ^ , the orange band on the under surface of 

 the fore wing of which is obsolete. Several HesperiidcB have not as 

 yet been determined. — James E. McClymont ; Seville, Spain, 

 January 16th, 1918. 



OBITUARY. 



We regret to announce the death of the Rev. F. E. Lowe, of 

 St. Stephen's Vicarage, Guernsey, which occurred on February 21st. 

 An obituary notice will appear in our April number. 



* [As this species has never been recorded by M. Oberthiir, Mr. rowcll, and 

 others who know every inch of the ground, I thinli there must be a mistake in 

 identification. — H. E.-B.]. 



