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in the sunshine with Z. carniolica, Z. fausta var. faustina, Z. 
hilaris, and, more rarely, Z. lonicere, fausta being perhaps the 
most active, and allin goodorder. Both Colias edusa and C. hyale 
were also plentiful, and S. cordula, quite fresh, showed con- 
spicuously with their dark velvet wings on the daisies, which 
still supported a few Melanargia galatea ab. leucomelas, decidedly 
commoner than the type, though invariably too broken for the 
collecting-boxes. FF ritillaries were few and far between: A. 
adippe, A. aglaia, and A. niobe var. eris; A. selene—one almost 
unrecognizable example—with M. athalia and M. didyma, were 
only ‘‘ occasionals’”’ ; Canonympha dorus very common, but all 
shabby fellows, and almost vanished before the week I spent on 
Causse was finished. I may add that the ‘ Hotel des Voyageurs’ 
at Mende offers good accommodation (in the dépendence), and 
the abundant fruit supplies and trout from the Lot (by the 
banks of which charming river I found Papilio machaon one 
sunny morning in some numbers) afford the chef opportunities 
of which he is not slow to take advantage. Seven frances a day 
for a good room and full pension reminds one of the palmy days 
of Switzerland as we remember it thirty years ago, with an 
infinitely better cuisine included ; and prices generally in this 
part of France rule decidedly low, even small tips being received 
with civility and gratitude. 
Leaving Mende on the 14th, I passed the night at Bort 
(Correse), a small town prettily situated on another good 
trout-stream, the Upper Dordogne, and having a couple of 
hours before the Paris train left, though it was tropically 
hot I strolled up towards the forests which encircle the 
perpendicular cliffs known as the Orgues de Bort, but, with 
the exception of Dryas paphia, Ll eptosia sinapis, Melitea par- 
thenie, and abundant H. tithonus, I saw nothing on the wing; 
and next morning found me back at Paris, where the short 
spell of August summer was already at an end. From all 
accounts the weather from June onwards in France north 
and south was abnormally cloudy and wet, and this no doubt 
accounted largely for the meagre results of my collecting this 
year. But I think it worth remarking that at le Lioran the 
extraordinary flights of dragonflies in general and of Anax 
imperator in particular may have assisted to exterminate the 
already none too plentiful Rhopalocera. Often did I come upon a 
likely corner to find a couple of these fine insects in possession, 
and as they remained hawking over the flowers and low shrubs 
it appeared as though the butterflies instinctively dropped to the 
earth or took to covert. At all events, when Anax was about 
I had extremely poor luck with the Order of which I was in 
search. 
Of the Mende butterflies taken or observed by me the follow- 
ing is a complete list :— 
