86 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



represented at Witherslack by some very tine and well-marked 

 varieties. 



A. aglaia began to appear before we left on June 28th. 



We had the pleasure of meeting Col. Clement Browne, R.E., 

 at Witherslack. He had just come from Langdale, where he had 

 obtained a fine series of Erehia epiphron. This was very satis- 

 factory news, as I had been in considerable doubt whether I had 

 been well advised in proposing Langdale as our headquarters in 

 our search for this species. 



On leaving we drove ove^to Kendal and went to Windermere, 

 joining Mrs. Keynes en route, and from Ambleside drove up to 

 the " Old Dungeon Gill Hotel," at the foot of Langdale Pikes, It 

 was very beautiful going up Langdale in the quiet dusk of the 

 summer evening, the beginning of three days of almost cloudless 

 weather. 



It was not till we had climbed up nearly to the 2000-ft. level 

 the following morning that we met with epiphron in any numbers, 

 but at this level, over the wide, shallow, grassy basin between 

 the Pikes, Avhich is the collecting ground for Dungeon Gill, we 

 came on them in profusion. They fly like slow, black bees just 

 above the level of the grass, and settle here and there to feed on 

 the wild thyme or Potentilla tormentilla. They were about us as 

 we ate our lunch on the highest of the Pikes (Harrison Stickle, 

 2401 ft.), and continued over the exposed high ground, though 

 in lessened numbers, for lA miles to High Piaise (2500 ft.) to the 

 north, and from there to Sergeant Man (2414 ft.) to the south- 

 east. They became abundant again on the more sheltered slopes 

 leading down to Stickle Tarn, but ceased long before the level of 

 the tarn (1540 ft.) was reached. Except where the bare rock is 

 exposed, the whole of this plateau has a grassy covering'' with 

 a little whortleberry and crowberry here and there. 



Flying with epiphron in the bright sunlight, and fairly 

 abundant, was the handsome Wood Tiger moth {Parasemia 

 pl(intagiitis), the males of which are dimorphic, the majority 

 havuig the hind wing and sides of the abdomen orange-yellow, 

 and others (var. Jtoapita, Schiff.) white. C. pamphilus was also 

 fairly abundant at this high level, but I saw no other butterflies. 



We spent the best part of two cloudless days in this delightful 

 region. 



On another day I took a walk to find, so far as I might, the 

 distiibution of epiphron to the westward. Going up Mickleden, 

 I climbed the rough track of Eossett Gill, and at the top, at 

 neany 2000 ft., found it again, and had it with me as I descended 

 to fhe foot of Angle Tarn and for some distance up the slope to 

 Esk Hause. A raven flew over the tarn as 1 passed, its hoarse 

 • Here is a list of the common plants which I gathered on the plateau : 

 Vacciiiiuiii Myrtillus, Empetrwii nigrum, Juncus squarrosus, Luzula campestris, 

 Sciipus ccespitosus, Eriophorum t'aginatum, Carex ampullacea (or ? ^^esicaria), 

 Anthoxanthum odoratum, Nard^is stricta, Airajlexuosa, and Festuca orina. 



