THE ENTOMOLOGIST 
Vou. XLIT.] NOVEMBER, 1909. [No. 558 
SOME AUGUST BUTTERFLIES OF CANTAL AND 
LOZERE. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
Sen on the map, the country to the south of Mont Doré, and 
especially that within the region of the mountains of Cantal, sug- 
gests tempting ground for entomologists who wish to add to 
their knowledge of the fauna of Central France—terra incognita, 
it seems, alike to French and British collectors. In bygone 
days one or two members of the Entomological Society of France 
appear to have given some attention to the butterflies of Cantal; 
and supplementary to Maurice Sand’s excellent Catalogue I find 
a list of captures made at le Lioran by M. Achille Guenée. 
With this slight material before me I had intended to visit 
the higher parts of the range in the early months of the 
summer, but again a variety of causes conspired to keep me in 
England until August was well in sight. The delay was doubly 
vexatious. It deprived me of the companionship of Mr. R. 8. 
Standen, one of the pioneers of Continental butterfly hunting. 
and also brought me to the appointed spot at a date when, as I 
was presently to discover, the better part of the local butterflies 
was over and done with. To stay more than a week in such a 
promising-looking locality as le Lioran and actually meet with 
no more than two members of the Lycenid family is an experi- 
ence without parallel in the several expeditions I have been 
fortunate enough to make abroad in previous years. But it is 
a fact that, apart from a single battered Lycena arion, T netted 
no other ‘‘ blue” there except Polyommatus alexis, and this very 
rarely. 
I travelled from Paris on the night of the 29th of July, and 
as I noticed on the return journey made by day, I had already 
passed through some fine scenery, when I awoke at Viescamp- 
sous-Jallés, the little junction where the main line to Figeac and 
Toulouse is crossed by the central road connecting Clermont- 
Ferrand and Bordeaux. Already the character of the country 
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