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and reddish orange-brown with greenish fore wings. M. deione, 

 a nice series of both sexes, two forms of the male, one being 

 duller and darker with smaller l)lack markings than the larger 

 and brighter form. Females, large-banded orange. This is the 

 first time I have had the pleasure of meeting with deione. 

 M. parthenie, I took one male just out, and never saw any 

 more. M. athalia, abundant, many forms, and some nice vars., 

 including two ab. navarina, <? ? ; ab. virgata, some very pale, 

 and var. helvetica, or alHed to it ; the females very varied also. 

 M. dictt/nna : the males abundant, with almost black hind wings ; 

 females very scarce. 



None of the Vaiiessas were common as imagines. Pyrameis 

 eardui ; P. atalanta very bright, and females with white spots 

 in the band. Euvanessa antiopa, Vanessa io, A. urticce, Kugonia 

 poli/chlows, Polygonia c-alhum, all abundant in the larval stage, 

 I should say 90 per cent, ichneumoned. Of about fifty mixed, 

 I got no eardui, two urticce and one c-albuw. 



Limenitis Camilla not common. L. popidi : a Belgian friend 

 declared that he saw one on the Col d'Anelle, where there is 

 much poplar and aspen. It is i)ossible that it was Apatura ilia, 

 but I met with no Apaturidce, either A. irix or A. ilia. 



Satyrid/e. — Pararge vuera, var. adrastn fairly common, but 

 not so plentiful as at Beauvezer. P. hiera, most difficult 

 to get females; ab. trinocidata. Wh., occurs; P. megcera, very 

 scarce, a few in September; I', egeria, one female in October, 

 var. iiieone. 



Satyrus cordnla common ; females same as males, a trifle 

 lighter, with, of course, larger eye-spots ; but no tawny colour, 

 ? actcea. 



Epinephele jurtina, and intermediate forms to hispidla, not 

 very abundant. E. lycaon very abundant ; females varied in 

 size and colour and size of eye-spots ; some males with extra 

 eye-spots and more or less tawny iiatch and of very large size. 



Ca'uotiy III pita ipliis. C. dorus, males with dark suffused fore 

 wings, females with pale fawn wings. C. yaiiiphilas, pale females. 



Erebia epiphron, vars. mnemon and '? cassiope; E. melampiis, 

 E. mnestra; E. alecto '? ? , one example only. E. medusa'?, 

 E. stygne, very black, E. evtas. E. scipio. I find that two butter- 

 flies, at first supposed to be E. gorge var. erinuyx, are, to my great 

 delight, two perfectly fresh scipio ^ S • I am yevj pleased to 

 have taken this fly at last. Both were captured in a small ravine 

 at Cetiuntlius, or false-valerian, and I now feel sure that a female 

 was also there a few days later which I missed. It appeared to 

 be a very light and, as I thought, faded stygne. E. euryale, and 

 vars. adyte, Hb., and euryalo'ides. E. ligea, E. neoridas, very 

 common (various), E. goante, E. gorge, E. tyndarus var . cassioides. 



Melanargia galatea, widely dispersed, but never abundant. I 

 did not find any forms so dark {procida) as in the Basses-Alpes. 



