74 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Carcharodus alcee var. australis ——According to Tutt, the 
local form. 
C. althee.—This butterfly is not included in Milliére’s lists. 
Dr. Chapman records a pupa found near Cannes on March 6th, 
1859. In the mountains of the Basses-Alpes it seldom emerges 
before mid-July. 
C. beticus (= marrubi Rbr. in litt.).—This species, formerly 
regarded as a variety of althee, but separated by Dr. Reverdin 
(‘ Bull. Ent. Soc. France,’ 1911, pp. 385-36),* occurs at Cannes, 
but does not appear to have been identified by Mr. Morris. 
C. lavatere.—Not common, confirming Mr. Powell’s, and 
Mr. Warburg’s observations (‘ Entomologist,’ xxii, p. 257). 
Hesperia side.—I have some examples in my collection from 
Cannes labelled June 1891, taken by Miss Fountaine. M. 
Oberthur also records it from the Estérel, near Cannes. 
H. carthami.—Mr. Bromilow (‘ Butterflies of the Riviera,’ 
p. 103) declares, curiously enough, that in the Alpes-Maritimes 
this is an alpine species, and does not occur on the coast. It 
appears to be fairly common at Cannes. 
(H. alveus.—Mr. Morris includes this in his list. I venture 
to suggest that it is probably a large form of the following species, 
alveus being now recognised as a mountain species, which 
would in any case hardly be out before July.] 
H. armoricanus.—Mr. Morris quotes with a ?, but I have no 
doubt that he has rightly identified the species which Dr. 
Reverdin records frum Cagnes, at no great distance, on May 14th, 
1908. 
H. onopordi.—Appears to be quite common in May at this 
point of the Riviera. I have seen many examples from Cannes 
and neighbourhood. 
H. malvoides.—Mr. Morris not unnaturally reports H.malve, 
but Dr. Reverdin (‘ Bull. Soc. Lépid. Geneve,’ vol. ii, fase. 2, 
August, 1911) demonstrates the absence of malve in the Alpes- 
Maritimes, while recording the presence of malvoides at Cannes, 
April 20th, 1911, and Vence, May 16th, 1910. 
[Pyrgus tessellum.—As there. are records for this east- 
European Hesperiid in the south of France, and Milliere 
actually reports it at Cannes ‘‘in May and June, rare,” it may 
be as well to state at once that there is no reliable authority 
for the occurrence. In fact, when I wrote some time since to 
Mr. Harold Powell of Hyéres for information, he replied that 
he had never come across it in the Var, or anywhere else on 
the French Mediterranean littoral, and that no doubt it had 
been misnamed by collectors who identified with it H. carthami, 
or even P. proto. An investigation of the authorities reveals 
the root and origin of the legend. Boisduval, in his ‘ Index 
M. Lacreuze of Geneva has demonstrated that the appendages of the 
female also differ (loc. cit.). 
