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cloudless, and for the remainder of the time the weather was, as 

 a rule, glorious — in fact, the occasional dull days we had came 

 almost as a relief, and enabled me to get set some of the many 

 butterflies in my boxes, the result of two or three days' collecting, 

 perhaps. 



In the hayfields and meadows surrounding the hotel at Aigle 

 the following species were in abundance : — 



Aporia cratcegi, Colias hyalc (a good deal worn), Nomiades 

 sciiiiargus, Argynnis adlppe, Melitcea athalia, M. parthenie, M. 

 dictynna, and Ajihantopus hyperanthus. 



A little less plentiful, though still very common, were Argynnis 

 aglaia, A. niohe, almost all of the var. oris — Limenitis Camilla, 

 Pararage mcera, and P. achine — the last in splendidly fresh con- 

 dition. A walk up the mountain at the back of the hotel in the 

 direction of Ollon produced Papilio podalirius, and P. machaon, 

 and four or five Lycccna avion, Dryas papJiia, Melit(ea phoehe, 

 Satyrus alcyone, and a single specimen of Carcharodus lavaterce, 

 besides hosts of commoner things. 



Another day took me down to the Ehone Valley, where the 

 hay was being cut. None the less I turned up several things of 

 interest : by the side of the river, Brenthis dm was fairly common 

 and a few worn B. euphrosyne, some fine large specimens of 

 Cupido minima, and a couple of male Eusticus argyrognomon 

 Brgstr. The same day I came upon a row of four small sallow 

 bushes which had been almost completely denuded of their leaves 

 by a vast colony of the larvae of Eiivanessa antiopa ; they looked 

 very conspicuous on the bare boughs as they were quite full 

 grown, and those I took proceeded to pupate the very same 

 evening, emerging satisfactorily three weeks later. I also found 

 a "nest" of the larvte of Etigonia polychloros on willow, about 

 a mile further on. Along the road between Aigle and Sepey on 

 June 29th Parnassiiis apollo was appearing, evidently quite 

 freshly emerged ; in the same place Melitcea didyma, all males, 

 and ver}' highly-coloured, was common, with S. alcyone, Thecla 

 ilicis, var. cerri, and a bit further on, and about three miles from 

 Sepey in the hayfields, I got a few fresh Chrysophanus hippothoe, 

 and some Coenonympha iphis, besides a good many commoner 

 " blues " and " skippers." 



Four days later, on the same ground, three very fresh Apa- 

 tura iris were taken, P. apollo was plentiful, and a single very 

 large male Satyrus cordida. 



On July 4th I moved my quarters to Villars, a small village 

 above Bex, about 4200 ft. up and in full view of the wonderful 

 Argentine and Diablerets mountains. Besides being a good 

 locality itself, Villars has the advantage of being on a funicular 

 railway, so that one could very easily make excursions down or 

 in the other direction. In the fields round the village I took 

 nice series of C. hippothoe, Polyommaius eumedon, and C. iphis; a 



