THREE WEEKS IN DAUPHINY. Sit 
hour outside the village I saw a greyish-looking erebia tumbled over 
and over in the dust by the sweeping wind, my hopes were raised 
proportionately. The wind caught my hat and carried it well 
on towards Monétier, but I had the butterfly in my net and it 
was, as I expected, a female H. scipio, yet so much the worse for 
the escapade that I let her go at once. Then I made a valiant 
attempt to swarm to the little plateau whence possibly she had 
descended, and where I spotted two or three male Hrebias 
disporting themselves. I could not get near them, so wild were 
they; and I never saw the species again, though three times I 
returned under less adverse circumstances. Scipio, therefore, 
remains on my list of desiderata, and, with all the world at war, 
I wonder whether I shall ever supplement in my cabinet the 
Digne examples kindly given me by M. Oberthur with those of 
my own capture. 
The village of Monétier lies at the south end of a bleak open 
valley extending almost the whole way from Pont de l’Alpe— 
looked at from above, a grey-brown wilderness of dusty fields, 
the detritus of the Guisane, which river, it would seem, habitu- 
ally inundates the surrounding country when the snows of Le 
Lauteret melt. But if the main valley is unpromising from an 
entomological point of view, the lateral valleys opening up 
consecutively on either side, but principally on the right bank, 
suggest fat bags for those who do not mind a certain amount of 
rough-and-tumble walking en route, made more laborious this 
season by the frequent rain rupture of the pathways. The 
tempestuous weather had also left its mark on the butterflies 
hereabouts. At all events, species reported as common by Mr. 
Tetley were hardly to be seen at all; and even where the moun- 
tain pastures were smiling with flowers and lush-green grass, 
I did not find that abundance of common things which is a 
feature of most Alpine pleasaunces. The four days of my col- 
lecting were divided between the hills and mountains on either 
side of Monétier. Those to the east were most productive at 
the lower levels; but very little was to be seen above the tree- 
line, and it was in the openings of the fir woods here that I first 
found Anthrocerids really plentiful, A. achillee sharing claim 
with A. transalpina and A. lonicere to be commonest of their 
genus. The A. carniolica from this locality are characteristic— 
small in size, the spots without marginal decoration, and the 
colour rather pale crimson. I boxed no more than a single 
specimen of A. fausta this year, on the Lauteret road. 
Where the Burnets were most plentiful they shared the 
flower heads of scabious and yellow hawkweeds with clouds of 
Adopea lineola, P. corydon, P. hylas, and occasional P. thersites. 
Brenthis ino was also in great force, with a small race of 
M. phebe. Papilio machaon and some Aporia crategi, P. apollo, 
and C. phicomone were fairly well represented. The Hrebias 
