116 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
were C. alciphron and C. phleas. I again penetrated into Haute 
Sadne on the 23rd July, when I explored the valley of the 
Breuchin as far as the fashionable spa of Luxeuil-les-Bains, again 
partly by train and partly on foot. Unfortunately, I was alone 
on this excursion, as Mr. Barraud had to return to England on 
July 13th. Crossing the mountains from Rupt-sur-Moselle, 
I walked down to Correvillers, taking a very fresh Huvanessa 
polychloros as I neared the village, whence I booked to Luxeuil, 
but a tempting bit of woodland induced me to hurriedly leave 
the train at a stopping-place. Pararge megera was flitting in and 
out of the bushes on the margin of the wood, and Colias edusa, 
like a flying blossom, sailed over the more open ground. Taking 
a forest path which appeared to lead in the right direction I soon 
found myself lost in a maze of umbrageous ridings, where the 
thick foliage of the beeches and oaks afforded a_ pleasant 
shelter from the fierce rays of the mid-day sun, but brought no 
game to the bag. Emerging at length on a stretch of heath 
land I got my bearings and also a nice example of Chryso- 
phanus dorilis, an insect with which I was to become more 
familiar later on. Enquiring at a woodman’s cottage, I was 
shown a quick way to Luxeuil, and just before entering the town, 
in a small meadow, three more C. dorilis were taken in company 
with Nomiades semiargus and Polyommatus alexis. 
The very useful map of the district published by the Syndi- 
cat d’Initiative des Vosges showed that a considerable stretch 
of forest land was to be found in the neighbourhood of Charmes, 
a small country town on the main line to Paris, between Epinal 
and Nancy, so I determined to visit the spot, hoping to find 
Apatura tlia, A. iris, and other woodland species. On the night 
of July 18th Mr. Barraud started for home, and we travelled 
together to Epinal which was as far as I could get that 
night. At an early hour next morning I alighted at the 
station at Charmes, and made for the forest, which could be 
seen on the west of the line. Rain had fallen heavily, making 
everything very wet, but an occasional gleam of sunshine 
awakened the hope that despite the gale which was blowing 
something good might be found. In an old grass-grown pit 
outside the forest a few Everes argiades and Nomiades semiargus 
were trodden up. Then Pieris napi and the ubiquitous Leptosia 
sinapis were met with in a forest glade where the long wet her- 
bage made progression very uncomfortable, but I struck the 
railway and followed a track running between the line and the 
woodland, where Cenonympha arcania was discovered at rest, and 
a batch of ova of Bombyx rubi was found on a leaf of wild 
raspberry. By the time I had reached a point where the rail- 
way crossed the high road, old Sol had temporarily gained the 
upper hand, and a brilliant male A. iris settled on some horse- 
droppings awakened expectations. But iris is a wary insect and 
