MORE NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF LA SAINTE BAUME. 9 
editor. Entomology was forgotten in the tremendous and over- 
powering interest and duties of the succeeding. months. As, 
however, I have received several enquiries for an account of my 
further investigation of the wealth of Lepidoptera at Ste. Baume : 
and as the chances of paying the place another visit seem at 
present very remote, I have set down these ‘‘ Notes”’ before they 
are lost and details faded from memory. 
We arrived at the Hotel de Lorges, at the foot of the road 
which ascends through the woods to Ste. Baume, on the evening 
of June 25th. This we made our headquarters, working often 
up to Ste. Baume on foot, and going for a short visit to the 
Hotellerie on July 11th. 
This being my third visit at nearly the same time for three 
successive years, it was not to be expected that I should largely 
add to the number of butterflies noted. It was for moths that I 
had especially come. Nevertheless there were found a few new 
things. The very first day I came across a specimen of Hesperia 
side by the roadside, in good condition. Though I hunted 
diligently I never found another. But June 26th is, I believe, a 
very late date for this insect. Melitea deione is another which 
I had not taken here before ; the males were very worn, but one 
or two females were in good condition. Insects did not seem to 
me as abundant as in former visits, and their times of emergence 
must in several species have been delayed. Looking for this 
M. deione called my attenticn to the number of species of the 
genus Melitea present at one time and place. In a piece of 
rough ground between the high road and wood, a little more 
than an acre in extent, all the following were to be taken on that 
day :—M. deione, M. athalia, M. parthenie, M. phoebe, M. cinzia, 
and M. didyma ; of course in very different conditions—some last 
survivals, some first appearances. And of other ‘ Fritillaries”’ 
were Argynnis wiobe, Brenthis hecate, and B. dia. This I am 
sure was a record in my experience. Other butterflies not 
recorded in my former ‘‘ Notes” (‘ Entomologist,’ vol. xlvii. 19.) 
which in 1914 I was able to add to my list are Epinephele lycaon, 
July 2nd, one male; I never saw another; Cupido sebrus, June 
27th, much worn; several Agriades thetis var. ceronus; and 
again I took a fine male hybrid polonus; and Erynnis althee. 
General Observations.—The following dates of appearances, 
&e., may be interesting. Polyommatus dolus seemed to have 
left its old quarters; elsewhere, especially in a field between 
Ste. Baume and the Col de Bretagne, it was abundant. First 
male, July 2nd; female, July 8th. Libythea celtis was commoner, 
or came more in my way than in former years; Léosopis roboris 
and Zephyrus quercis less so. And these ‘‘ Hair-streaks’’ remind 
me that there is an extraordinary statement on p. 16 of my 
former ‘‘ Notes” to the effect that I did not find Thecla ialicis 
var. cerri. I cannot think what this means. It is far commoner 
