282, THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
To later volumes the Rev. F. E. Lowe (loc. cit. xxii. 1910), Mr. 
A. S. Tetley, and Mr. Douglas Pearson contribute their experi- 
ences of that charming country. For this paper, therefore, my 
only excuse is that hitherto nothing has been written on the 
subject in the ‘ Entomologist,’ and that I visited one locality at 
least to which most of these authorities paid but slight attention. 
To Dr. Chapman’s suggestive note on the local ‘‘ grass’ Hrebias 
(Proc. Ent. Soc. 1918, evii.—cx.) I shall refer later on. 
There are two hotels at La Grave equally comfortable and 
well kept—the Hotel des Alpes and the Hotel de la Meije. I 
stayed at the former for ten days. And here I should like to 
point out how helpful it is when lepidopterists, who have visited 
foreign localities and write about them, give others following 
their footsteps the benefit of their hotel experience. Personally, 
I find the Touring Club of France guide invaluable for the 
purpose of selection. May the next issue reintroduce us to the 
hospitality of Alsace and Lorraine ! 
Arriving in time for a late déjeuner after a drive of surpassing 
loveliness, I spent the afternoon prospecting in the deep meadows 
that lead up to the Meije glacier. Facing the Meije, La Grave 
stands boldly up from the torrent of the Romanche. Across the 
mule-path leading on this side to the river a muddy trickle 
attracts the ‘‘ Whites’? and “Blues” in cheerful abundance; 
Aporia crategi, fresh males, but small; Parnassius apollo; on 
the yellow crucifers Anthocharis simplonia, at this level (5000 ft.) 
already rather worn; and among smaller fry, Plebeius argus 
(egon), Polyommatus hylas, and Nomiades semiargus. I did not 
observe Papilio podalirius, but it was not uncommon lower down 
towards Bourg d’Oisans. P. machaon occurred singly in the 
village itself. But undoubtedly the best collecting ground here- 
abouts is on the left bank of the river, and up to the Meije 
glacier. The first four days of unclouded sunshine, from the 
12th to the 15th, were fully occupied. In the lower pastures 
Erebia pharte males were flying in profusion, the females as yet 
hardly emerged; EH. epiphron var. casstope, decidedly rare; 
EE. ceto, a dwarf race compared with that of the Swiss Alps, less 
so; and, of course, H. stygne; though by far the commonest of 
the genus was EH. euryale, constant and typical in form, and 
often assembling by the score at the runnels, or starting up from 
every branch and flower in the fir woods. 
Pushing on to the moraine of the Meije glacier, I had not 
been long on the look-out when the first glossy H. alecto flew 
across the path, and later I was fortunate to bag one or two 
perfectly fresh females. One such rose from my feet as I was 
struggling with the loose shifting scree. She had evidently been 
disturbed in the act of oviposition; and, as the only plant at 
this particular spot was a sort of tuft grass, I have not much 
doubt that this plant—afterwards identified in the Alpine garden 
