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34. Argynnis Niobe: road between Martigny and Great 
St. Bernard. 
Sion.—1. Papilio Podalirius: steep rocks by Castle of 
Sion. 2. Pieris Daplidice: steep rocks by Castle of Sion. 
8. Minois Actea: steep rocks by Castle of Sion. 
Jersey.—1. Pieris Daplidice: St. Ouen’s Bay. 2. Argynnis 
Lathonia: St. Ouen’s Bay. 3. Satyrus Meera. 
Wiesbaden.—1. Gonepteryx Rhamni: Russian cemetery. 
Venice.—1. Colias Edusa: Botanical Gardens. 2. Va- 
nessa Cardui: Botanical Gardens. 
St. Malo.—1. Papilio Machaon. 
Lucerne.—1. Argynnis Lathonia. 2. Vanessa Cardui. 
It remains for me merely to supplement the above very 
fragmentary data by stating that, as far as my own success in 
collecting is concerned, I decidedly give the preference to the 
Vallais over any other district. The foregoing facts stand for 
what they are worth. My knowledge is too imperfect, and 
my stay was too limited, in the localities mentioned, for me 
to attempt an elaborate generalization, as regards the wide- 
spread range of certain species, and the local occurrence or 
total absence of others. 
F. A. WALKER. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, §c. 
Notes on the Red and Blue Varieties of Gidipoda Ger- 
manica.—So far as my very imperfect knowledge of this 
insect extends, its red and blue varieties are about equally 
common, occurring, however, by no means in the same pro- 
portion in each place, as while travelling on the Continent I 
have observed the red alone almost exclusively in one spot, 
and similarly the blue in another; while in a third locality I 
have noticed both forms, though not in equal plenty. But as 
mine are necessarily hurried notes of a passer through the 
different countries where I remarked the said grasshopper, as, 
for example, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Corsica, it is 
not at all improbable but that a longer investigation, as well 
as a more careful and further extended search, would succeed 
in discovering the red, where I only found the blue, and 
vice versd. ‘The fact that both varieties are undoubtedly 
found in one and the same place, would seem to preclude 
