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of the under side of this butterfly, simple as it is, seems to me to be 

 one of the beauties of the insect world, Horace's simplex munditiis, 

 though the phrase had a very different inspiration, seems to fit this 

 butterfly exactly. I also took a worn specimen of Melitmi athalia, and 

 an example of Pararge egeria; the latter I had seen one day in May 

 near Treguier, but had not before this found in the Val Andre region. 



I find a note that M. cinxia and A. craU&ji were still common on 

 July 9th, the former being mostly worn specimens. By this time 

 Argijnnis paphia, Satyriis seinele, and Epinephele hyperanthes had appeared. 

 The last was particularly common in a glen called Petit Val, where I 

 took it and S. semele ; also a specimen of Vanessa polychloros on July 

 9th. During this month I also took Lyc(Bna mjon and Pieris napi, and 

 Hesperia tkaumas and H. sylvanus were common. On July 14th, in 

 one corner of an orchard in the Petit Val, on a bank overgrown with 

 broom and bramble, there were swarms of common things — galatea, 

 tithonus, ianira, thaunias, sylvanus, hyperanthes, &c. ; and it was here 

 that I took a very bad specimen of Lyacna arioii. I secured an even 

 worse specimen on July 31st. My specimens of Lycana bcetica were 

 taken on July 19th in the field of vetch already mentioned. On the 

 following day I made an exceptionally good bag in the valley of Flora, 

 between Val Andre and Dahouet ; the captures included a fine 

 Argynnis adippe var, cleodoxa (I did not take any of the ordinary form), 

 several A. aglaia and A. paphia, Vanessa c-albiim, atalanta, io, and 

 urticoB, one Polyommatus dorilis male, one Thecla quercus, one C. edusa, 

 and one P. brassicm. 



At this point my entomological diary comes for the time being to 

 an abrupt conclusion. However, it is my practice to attach a small 

 label with the date of capture to each specimen, so it is possible to 

 give the record of further captures up to my return to England in the 

 middle of August. The precise localities I cannot at this time recall, 

 but all the insects in the following list were taken in the neighbourhood 

 of Val Andre : — July 28th. Pyrgus malvarnm (one), Lycmia argiolus 

 (one male), Polyommatus dorilis (two males). 30th. Colias hyale (one), 

 Pieris rapcB (one). 31st. Lycana avion (one), Thecla ilicis (two), 

 Limenitis sibylla (several). August 2nd. Thecla betidce (one). 8th. 

 P. dorilis (one male), T. betxda. (one), Pararge egeria (one). 11th. L. 

 argiolus (one female), P. dorilis (one female), P. phUeas (one). 



I am indebted to Mr. Doncaster, of the well-known firm in the 

 Strand, for identifying several species of which I was not certain. 



I paid very little attention to the Heterocera during this visit, but 

 I find a note under the date May 18th that larvae of Bombyx trifolii 

 were common. Macroglossa stellatarum was very common at the end 

 of May, and I believe some larv® of Deilephila euphorbia; were found in 

 the neighbourhood. — Denis Turner ; 2, Shalston Villas, Surbiton, 

 August 12th, 1903. 



The New Forest in July. — I was met at Brockenhurst Station by 

 a resident friend — a collector — on July 16th, whose first remark to me, 

 after the formal greeting, was " There is nothing to be got here." 

 That was not very cheering to a man who had looked forward to his 

 holidays since the date of those of the previous year, but the remark 

 doubtless was the echo of scores of other collectors in different parts 



