128 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Pieris brassice, P. rape.—Both rare. 
Colias phicomone.—The commonest Colias.—C. edusa, C. hyale. 
NyMPHALID#.—Argynnis aglata.—Common. 
A. niobe-—Less so. I do not remember seeing A. adippe, nor 
does Guillemot record it. 
Issoria lathonia.—Common, especially just outside the village 
towards the Col. 
Brenthis pales.—At sufficient altitudes ; but the commoner was 
undoubtedly B. arsilache, of which I took a lovely blanched female 
aberration in the Val d’Ornaye, a few minutes’ walk from the main 
road. In this example the rufous ground of the upper side of the 
fore wings has entirely disappeared, and the ground colour is creamy 
white (= primula, new ab.). The same peculiarity is observable on 
the hind wings, but the failure of colour less pronounced. At a dis- 
tance the butterfly rather suggested a female C. phicomone, but the 
different flight, sluggish and hesitating, fortunately caused me to 
make a closer inspection. A tendency to albinism was decidedly 
noticeable in the Larche females of arstlache. Of pales, Guillemot 
speaks of the var. nape@a—the familiar violet-shot female form—at 
Godessart; and I took two of this variety in the Val d’Ornaye, 
among others typical. 
(Melitea cynthia.—Reported from the Pain de Sucre, and one at 
Malmorte by Guillemot, not observed at Larche; nor M. aurinia 
var. merope, which may have been over.) 
M. varia.—Oceasionally. 
Pyrameis cardut.—Ravre. 
Aglais wrtice.—Just emerging, and brightly coloured. 
Pararge mera.—On the wane. 
Epinephele gurtina.—Not common. 
EH. lycaon.—Less rare, and in good order. 
Cenonympha tphis.—Common in all the meadows— Val d’Ornaye, 
Val de Lauzanier, &c. 
C. pamphilus.—Some of the females very large, the size of average 
C. tuphon. 
C. darwimana.—Rare. 
Erebia eprphron.—Many of the males and females examined were 
much nearer to the type than to var. cassiope; but none of the 
females show white-pupilled ocellation. Not common. 
E. mnestra.—Well distributed ; var. gorgophone, Col de Larche. 
HE. alecto, var. duponchelt, Obthr. (= pluto Esp. ?)—Not un- 
common at about 8000 ft. No typical alecto, or var. glacialis observed. 
E. ceto.—One female in the grass where the stream crosses the 
path up the Val d’Ornaye. 
E. stygne.—Over. 
E. scipio—One male only taken, on the 26th, flying with 
numerous other Erebias in the Val d’Ornaye below the ‘“ alecto” 
line. Although I worked this place three or four times subsequently, 
I did not meet with another, and I expect the species was only just 
coming out. It is stated by Guillemot to occur on the rocky slopes 
below the last pastures of Ozglosse, and on the left bank of the 
Ubayette above the junction of that river with the Ubaye. 
