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NOTES ON SOME SPRING AND AUTUMN BUTTERFLIES 
OF CANNES AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
My correspondent, Mr. C. Morris, of Le Cannet, has kindly 
furnished me with an annotated list of the butterflies coming 
within his observation in the Alpes-Maritimes at Cannes, and 
to the north of it as far as Grasse; westward to the Estérel; and 
eastward to Vence, and the Gorge du Loup. 
British entomologists who have collected in these regions 
will be interested with a detailed account of the rarer species 
observed by a resident in so far as he throws fresh light on the 
reputed captures of the past, especially as regards the autumn 
emergences less often displayed to those of us familiar enough 
with the early spring Lepidoptera of the Department. 
Since Milliere’s day and the publication of his ‘ Catalogue 
Raisonné des Lépidoptéres des Alpes-Maritimes’ (Paris, 1871-75), 
and the Supplements thereto (1883-87), the immediate neigh- 
bourhood of Cannes has altered greatly for the worse from the 
entomological point of view, as was even the case when Dr. 
Chapman was making his observations there in the spring of 
1899 (cp. ‘ Entomologist’s Record,’ vol. xi). Always a favourite 
winter and spring resort for our countrymen, and likely to be one 
of the first Riviera places revisited when the war is over, large 
areas of once productive land have been enclosed and built over, with 
the inevitable result that some of the finest collecting ground is 
no more, and the local forms and species which haunted them 
have disappeared. With this and the outlying region Mr. Morris 
has made himself familiar, collecting with Mr. Tucker in the past 
few years from February to about June 10th, returning generally 
during the first week of October. Where not otherwise recorded, 
therefore, dates are from February to June 10th. 
HeEspreRmIDe.—Since Milliere wrote, this much debated Family 
has been, so to speak, reorganised and classified, and we are now 
able, thanks to the zealous work of M. Charles Oberthir, Dr. 
T. A. Chapman, Dr. J. Reverdin, and others to determine with 
some accuracy the species actually occurring at Cannes and other 
places on the Riviera. Mr. Morris includes the following :— 
ENTOM.—APRIL, 1916. H 
