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2. Abdomen with distinct hair-bands, or lateral patches 



at the bases of the segments .... 3. 



Abdomen without hair- bands or patches. Spp. to be treated later. 



3. Size very small humei, Ckll. 



Size medium 4. 



4. Male ; more hairy ; area of metathorax rugoso-re- 



ticulate ....... lanu/jinusus, Sm. 



Females ; less hairy ; area of metathorax striate . 5. 



5. Thorax very coarsely sculptured (Victoria) . . gile.u, Ckll. 

 Thorax finely sculptured (Hobart, Tasmania) . reprasentans, Sm. 



(To be continued.) 



A BUTTERFLY HUNT IN THE PYRENEES. 

 By H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., E.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 249.) 



The collecting ground here is not easy to discover at once, so 

 much have the market and villa gardens encroached upon the 

 heaths of late years. A morning at Auglet was wasted in the 

 attempt to find a suitable country, and it was more by accident 

 than intention that I struck a really good locality to the south 

 of the town on the road to St. Jean de Luz, and hard by the 

 Bois de Boulogne. I spent an afternoon and morning on the 

 boggy slopes which extend from the i)ine woods to the bamboo 

 swamps, now more or less composed of oozing mud. Among the 

 heather Satyrus dri/as was flapping heavily, while S. arethusa 

 was enjoying a sun-bath wherever there was an interval of dry 

 sand. But Cosnonyinpha cBdippus, which haunts the damp and 

 shady hollows, was nowhere to be seen. One worn female, 

 however, which I kicked up from the grass, revealed the fact 

 that I was too late for the species, and the same may be said 

 of Heteropterus morpheus, for, though I took a dozen or so of 

 these odd butterflies, they were nearly all worn to rags, and 

 therefore liberated. Lampides hoeticus, again, presented the same 

 lamentable appearance, but among a host of Cyanirls argiolus 

 I took a splendid fresh male Lyccena alcon, for which Biarritz 

 is not given as a locality by M. Rondou, though Mr. Elwes men- 

 tions it among his captures there in July, 1886. The next day 

 the weather broke up, and, as there seemed no chance of an 

 immediate improvement, I turned northwards on the 5th, well 

 satisfied with the results of my wanderings, both entomological 

 and otherwise. Not counting varieties and local forms, M. 

 Rondou includes 158 species in his catalogue of the Rhopalocera 

 of the Pyrenees. I took or observed 109 in what was little 

 more than a fortnight's collecting, made up as follows : — 



