108 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON LEPLDOPTERA FROM THE 

 MEDITERRANEAN. 



By Fleet-Paymaster Gervask F. Mathew, R.N., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



(Concluded from p. 84.) 



We left Malta on April 1st, arrived at Ville Franche, near 

 Nice, on the 4th, and remained there until the 28th, as guard- 

 ship to the Queen during her visit to Cimiez. The town is situated 

 on the slopes of steep hills at the head of a lovely bay, and above 

 it are numerous pretty villas nestling among a profusion of olive, 

 orange, poplar, carob, and other trees, and most of them art sur- 

 rounded by delightful gardens. Above these there are patches 

 of open ground covered with rough boulders, amongst which a 

 variety of aromatic shrubs were growing and flowering in the 

 wildest luxuriance, and beyond this, again, up to their summits, 

 the hills were clothed with sweet-smelling pines. Everyone 

 knows or has read of the beautiful Riviera, so I will not take 

 up your space with an attempt to describe the lovely scenery. 

 I must, however, just say that from one of the highest points 

 above Ville Franche — Mont Vinaigrier — one can obtain a most 

 magnificent view of Nice and the surrounding country. My 

 collecting expeditions were chiefly confined to this open ground 

 between the highest villas and the belt of pine wood, and to seme 

 open spots among the villas between Ville Franche and Beaulieu. 

 I also made one or two excursions farther away to the slopes 

 near the upper Corniche road. 



On April 5th I met with P. rapes, P. brassiccs, C. edusa, and 

 C. pamphilus in abundance, and took or saw several examples 

 of P. podalirius (worn), G. c-album, P. daplidice, P. atalanta, 

 P. cardui, G. cleopatra, L. megcera, L. argiolus, L. baton var. 

 panoptcs. Pyrausta punicealis was common among wild thyme, 

 and Rhodaria sanguinalis abundant among sun-cistus and wild 

 sage. On the 10th I went with a picnic party to visit Eze, a 

 very ancient village perched on the summit of a lofty rock at the 

 head of a deep gorge. It is some 1600 feet above the sea-level, 

 and commands a splendid view. From Eze station the path, 

 not much better than a donkey-track, winds in a zigzag fashion 

 up the ravine, and was steep and difficult in some places. The 

 sides of the gorge were clothed with olive and pine trees, and 

 when we got higher up we met with ash, poplar, ilex, mountain- 

 ash, willow, &c. Bushes of some kind of Genista were thickly 

 covered with their pretty yellow flowers, and various kinds of 

 Euphorbia, some large and bushy, were also clothed in their 

 greenish-yellow bloom. Upon one of these I was surprised to 

 see a fine specimen of Panolis piniperda enjoying itself, and a 

 little farther on I took Ago-otis puta. No fresh butterflies were 

 seen that day, except one small Argynnis, which was probably 



