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Undersides, variable shades of ochre grey; second emergence 

 rather smaller than the first. H. armoricamts, large ; H. alveus, 

 many large forms with variable undersides ; H. bellieri, large ; 

 H. foulquieri, small; H. fritillum (cirsii), small; H. serratulce, 

 two forms — a larger and a smaller; females of both common at 

 mules' dung, and mud ; but I did not come across var. cceca, or 

 var. tarasoides, unless this is the large form. H. carlhue, large ; 

 H. onopordi : the form here is larger than than that of the 

 Cannes district; H. cacalm very rare — at least I saw and took 

 but one fresh female at mud on the Route de Yens ; H. malvoides, 

 at mules' dung, flowers, and moisture ; a few undersides variable 

 in shade. 



Pijr(iiis sao very plentiful, with a fairly long emergence, 

 ? two broods overlapping ; rich in colour, but on the underside 

 not so varied as in some localities. I took one example of what I 

 think is a banded form of this species, or P. proto, in the valley 

 of the Ardon. I did not find any Phlomis growing in this district. 



Nisoniades tages over when we arrived. I did not notice a 

 second emergence.* 



Adojyrea lineola very common with A.jiava; Thymeliciis 

 action not observed, perhaps overlooked ; Augiades sylvanus 

 not very common ; A. comma plentiful, but not abundant, ab. 

 flavd, or var. catena ?. 



JjYCJE'^iDm. — Chrysophanus i-irgaurctc common; one beauti- 

 ful male with the upper-side right wing silver (as in jy^lceas ab. 

 alba) to orange copper ; females plentiful, showing French-white 

 spots on the upper-side of the hind wings corresponding to the 

 spots in phlaas coendeo-punctata ; C. hippothoe var. euryhia 

 about normal size ; one male, underside right wing siibtiis-radiata 

 {conjiuens) ; left ab. cceca ; one female ab. nigra ; another 

 radiated on the upper-side ; another flawed bright copper on the 

 fore-wings ; C. dorilis var. subalpina intermediate to the black 

 form. 1 found a locality where it had been abundant, but all 

 passe when I got there ; ab. pitrpureo-punctata and ab. brumiea 

 also occurred in the valley. C. phlaas, gen. vern., nearly over ; 

 gen. (est. suffusa and eleus with type ; gen. auct., October, a few 

 when we left quite fresh out. There had been no cold weather 

 up to then. At Le Cannet it was still coming out on 

 November 10th. 



Lyccena alcon very local, and not so fine as at Beauvezer, 

 but attached to the same species of gentian, G. cruciata. So 

 far as I know G. pneamonanthe does not grow in the Alpes- 

 Maritimes. Var. monticola I did not come across. At Beauvezer 

 in 1914 it favoured one single locality. L. avion varied in size ; 

 in one locality it was very fine and large ; var. obscura and inter- 

 mediates. One female with very slight spotting on the upper- 



* There was a second emergence of everything except clover and other leguminous 

 plant-feeders, which were all very scarce on account of the unprecedented drought. 

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