18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
new brood began to appear before we left, but I should say the 
species was not very abundant. The same remarks apply to 
Cupido minimus and Nomiades semiargus ; while of Aricia medon 
(astrarche) I saw but one, freshly emerged, near Nans at the end 
of my visit. 
While writing of the ‘‘ Blues’’ I will here make a leap of a 
few days. On June 380th we moved down to the Hotel de Lorges, 
near old Nans, at the foot of the road ascending to the plateau 
of Plan d’Aups. This hotel is some 800 ft. lower down than 
the Hotellerie. Late in the afternoon my wife and I, after 
having taken rooms and arranged our baggage, went for a short 
stroll. She called my attention to what she thought to be a 
strange form of corydon at rest. I caught it and pill-boxed it, 
but could only see the under side, which looked like a somewhat 
unusual P. meleager. When killed it proved to be a typical 
male Dolus. Of course on the next day we were on the look-out 
for more, but it was not until two days later that it turned up 
again, and then not on the same ground. The first specimen 
was taken on the rocky sides of the hill upon which the ruined 
chateau stands, but the rest were taken in the clearings of the 
wood and edges of fields skirting the wood. On July 6th I got 
six males and four females, and Mrs. Lowe two of each sex. In 
this locality Dolus presents the double interest of affording 
specimens both of the type and of var. vittata, usually assigned 
solely to the Department of Lozére. I left before the species 
was fully out, but my captures show of the type eleven males 
and seven females, against five males and one female var. vittata. 
It must be noted, however, that some of these reckoned of the 
type form have a decided tendency to the streak on the upper 
side hind wing which distinguishes the variety. They might be 
called var. intermedia. This is particularly true of Certain of 
the males. 
All former specimens in my cabinet came from Florac and 
Mende, the gifts of Mr. Jones and Mr. Rowland-Brown, and are 
of course var. vittata. On comparing these with this year’s 
catch at Nans, it is at once evident that the Nans specimens are 
on an average considerably larger than those from the Mende 
district—a much darker blue, and also have a very much 
broader black edge to the wings. It is quite easy to pick out a 
Nans specimen if you mix them together. 
Agriades corydon began to appear on July 2nd at Nans, and 
came out very slowly—the males with rather dark and sharply 
defined margin; the females did not show up before we left. I 
took one very beautiful example of var. cinnus. 
One fine female, Libythea celtis, was taken between Nans and 
Sainte Baume off flowers of bramble. But I never saw another, 
neither could I see any plants of Celtis australis. At Sainte 
Baume Satyrus alcyone had appeared on June 24th; at Nans, 
