SOME SPRING AND AUTUMN BUTTERFLIES OF CANNES. 195 
NOTES ON SOME SPRING AND AUTUMN BUTTERFLIES 
OF CANNES AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Concluded from p. 178.) 
NyYMPHALID. 
As might be expected, the larger Fritillaries have hardly 
emerged at Cannes before the middle of June; but the following 
remarks under their respective headings may be useful in com- 
paring the dates of records from elsewhere. 
Dryas paphia.—Mr. Morris, in his list of observations, notes 
that a fine male flew into and settled in his garden at Le Cannet 
in early June, 1915—“‘ have never heard of it here before.” It 
is, of course, an abundant species in the higher Alpes-Maritimes ; 
and this year Mr. Morris’s experience was repeated. Writing 
from Beauvezer on June 28th he reports: ‘‘ Just before leaving 
(June 15th) Le Cannet I took, within a stone’s throw of our villa 
at a large bramble hedge, an example of D. paphia, var. (et ab.) 
immaculata, Bellier.” Staudinger, who had re-named this form 
anargyra in the second edition of the ‘ Catalog,’ restored Bellier’s 
name in the last edition of that work. There used to be a 
superstition that all paphia taken in Corsica were immaculata ; 
but I have typical paphia in my collection, and M. Oberthur 
further states that the insular form is by no means always of this 
variety. 
Argynnis aglaia.—Searce, at least before the middle of June. 
Issoria lathonia.—Plentiful in gardens; larve on Viola 
cornuta, and more rarely on V. odorata. 
Brenthis euphrosyne.—Scarce and local. It is very common 
at Digne in May, and of enormous size compared with the 
British form. 
B. selene.—Occurs rarely ; ‘‘ took it once.” 
(B. aphirape, Hb.—I have been at considerable pains to run 
to earth the authority quoted by Mr. Kane (‘Kuropean Butter- 
flies,’ p. 78), ‘‘marshy mountain meadows in France, Isére and 
Vosges.” Mr. Wheeler repeats this as ‘‘S. France”; but, 
unless Isere be regarded as a southern department, the “south ” 
seems hardly warranted by the reference, though it is true a 
fragment of the Midi extends into a part of Isere, e. g. to Clelles. 
The legend may be traced to Berce,* tome i, p. 173. In 
* The passage in Berce’s ‘“ Lépidoptéres’’ (1867), provides a clue to the 
mystery. ‘‘I saw,’’ he writes, ‘‘several examples in the collection of M. Kroener 
of Strasbourg which had been taken in the Vosges. The department of Isére is 
indicated as a locality also, but I have never seen any aphirape therefrom.” 
Duponchel (tome ii, p. 72) is the first French writer (1822) to cite the Vosges, adding 
‘*T have been told, but without being able to get the information confirmed, that it 
occurred in the environs of Amiens.’’ Note the past tease. The neighbourhood of 
Amiens abounds in marshy meadows even to this day. 
