118 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
whole country side. I had arrived in Charmes on the previous 
night, and as the morning broke dull and cloudy I resolved to 
see what could be found on the hillside rather than repeat my 
experience of a wet walk in the forest. Crossing the meadows 
behind the town I disturbed a few specimens of I. argiades and 
N. semiargus, and then making a bee-line for the top through the 
vineyards saw a solitary specimen of Pyrameis cardui, the only 
record I have of its occurrence in the Vosges. In some disused 
quarries on the crown of the hill, besides the two ‘‘blues”’ 
already mentioned, Polyommatus corydon and Rusticus argus 
(egon) were met with. A very pretty lightly-marked example of 
Abraxas grossulariata was caught on the way home. The after- 
noon being a little brighter the forest was again visited, but on the 
road where a fortnight before Aptura iris and 4. ilia were abun- 
dant, not one was now to be seen. About four o’clock, when I 
got into the open country again, the sun came out for an hour 
and sport was very good. On the clumps of wild thyme 
Chrysophanus dorilis was much in evidence, and its congener 
phleas, fresh and bright, spread its golden wings in the sun- 
shine. Colias hyale was flying freely, but C. edusa did not put 
in an appearance, though I met with it on the following morn- 
ing, which I spent on the outskirts of the forest in a more 
northerly direction, when the Lycenids already mentioned were 
the chief objects of attack, a good series of C. dorilis being 
quickly obtained. Altogether my visits to the forests on the 
lower levels were most unfortunate, the weather being showery 
on each occasion, and the atmospheric conditions generally 
not favourable for collecting. 
(To be continued.) 
LARVA OF ARGYNNIS LAODICE. 
By T. A. CHapman, M.D., F.Z.S., &c. 
Mr. FrRonAwk’s account of the life-history of A. laodice (antea, 
pp. 49-54, pl. ii.) is so excellent, and his plate seems to me to 
deserve such an overwhelming meed of praise, whether as regards 
accurate and scientific entomology or as a most beautiful example 
of the painter’s art, that I hesitate to make a trifling comment 
thereon. I do so, however, just because it is so good, and there- 
fore possesses, because it deserves, such great weight, that it 
seems desirable that weight should not be given to even a trifling 
inaccuracy. This affects the hairs as shown on the enlarged draw- 
ing of a segment of the first stage larva. Tubercles ii. and iii. are 
shown with an expanded scutcheon, and a hair, and between them 
a bulbous portion, no doubt that referred to in the description as a 
‘bulbous base” of the hair. The figure, then, shows three portions— 
the tubercular scutcheon, the bulb, and the hair, Now, I have never 
