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their belonging to the same form, but all these have the upper 

 side darker, with broader black markings (except the inner sub- 

 terminal), and with a distinctly broad black border; the outer 

 and inner bands of the un. s. h. w. are darker, whilst the dark 

 markings on the un. s. f. w. are slighter. 



It is difficult to place this form, and it is with considerable 

 diffidence that I have put it among the varieties of athalia, as 

 it shows in several respects a somewhat close affinity with 

 aurelia ; and it is quite probable that when the life histories of 

 both are carefully worked out it may prove to be a variety of 

 dictynndides. 



(To be continued.) 



FIVE WEEKS IN THE VOSGES. 

 By a. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. So.) 



Another pleasant excursion was made on the 10th of the 

 same month to the Valley of the Ognon, in the department of 

 Haute Saone, taking train to Le Thillot and driving over the col 

 to Le Haut du Them. While the driver was baiting his 

 horses at the hotel at the top of the pass, Issoria lathonia flew 

 by, and I chased it over the departmental boundary and captured 

 it in Haute Saone. We drove down into the valley at a spank- 

 ing pace, and arrived at the station half an hour before the train 

 was due to leave, so we decided to walk to the next stopping 

 place. On the way we beat out our first specimen of Arachnia 

 levana var. prorsa, but it flew across a potato patch where a 

 dame of forbidding appearance was at work with her hoe, so we 

 let it escape, but met with the species again among some nettles 

 near Ternuay, to which place we took the train at a wayside 

 station. From Ternuay we walked down the valley to Melisey. 

 In the clover fields Colias edusa and C. hyale were flying, and 

 another dwarf in the shape of a diminutive specimen of the 

 former insect fell to my lot. The commonest butterfly in the 

 valley was undoubtedly Leptosia sinapis, which, being just out, 

 was in the pink of condition, and next to this graceful little 

 Pierid in point of numbers came Brenthis dia, which was flying 

 by the roadside everywhere. Near Melisey, on a strip of green- 

 sward, we made acquaintance with Everes argiades, of which four 

 specimens, evidently of the second brood, came our way. I 

 afterwards met with this insect at several places on the lower 

 levels, but it was not until the 21st of the month that I saw it 

 at St. Maurice which is at a higher altitude. Except for the 

 fact that they are rather large, the specimens taken in the Vosges 

 are quite typical. The two Chrysophanids seen during the day 



