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their belonging to the same form, but all these have the upper 
side darker, with broader black markings (except the inner sub- 
terminal), and with a distinctly broad black border; the outer 
and inner bands of the un. s. h. w. are darker, whilst the dark 
markings on the un. s. f. w. are slighter. 
It is difficult to place this form, and it is with considerable 
diffidence that I have put it among the varieties of athalia, as 
it shows in several respects a somewhat close affinity with 
aurelia; and it is quite probable that when the life histories of 
both are carefully worked out it may prove to be a variety of 
dictynnoides. 
(To be continued.) 
FIVE WEEKS IN THE VOSGES. 
By A. E. Gress, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 83.) 
AnotHER pleasant excursion was made on the 10th of the 
same month to the Valley of the Ognon, in the department of 
Haute Sadne, taking train to Le Thillot and driving over the col 
to Le Haut du Them. While the driver was baiting his 
horses at the hotel at the top of the pass, Issoria lathonia flew 
by, and I chased it over the departmental boundary and captured 
it in Haute Sadne. We drove down into the valley at a spank- 
ing pace, and arrived at the station half an hour before the train 
was due to leave, so we decided to walk to the next stopping 
place. On the way we beat out our first specimen of Arachnia 
levana var. prorsa, but it flew across a potato patch where a 
dame of forbidding appearance was at work with her hoe, so we 
let it escape, but met with the species again among some nettles 
near Ternuay, to which place we took the train at a wayside 
station. From Ternuay we walked down the valley to Melisey. 
In the clover fields Colias edusa and C. hyale were flying, and 
another dwarf in the shape of a diminutive specimen of the 
former insect fell to my lot. The commonest butterfly in the 
valley was undoubtedly Leptosia sinapis, which, being just out, 
was in the pink of condition, and next to this graceful little 
Pierid in point of numbers came Brenthis dia, which was flying 
by the roadside everywhere. Near Melisey, on a strip of green- 
sward, we made acquaintance with Everes argiades, of which four 
specimens, evidently of the second brood, came our way. I 
afterwards met with this insect at several places on the lower 
levels, but it was not until the 21st of the month that I saw it 
at St. Mavrice which is at a higher altitude. Except for the 
fact that they are rather large, the specimens taken in the Vosges 
are quite typical. The two Chrysophanids seen during the day 
