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whole country side. I had arrived in Charmes on the previous 

 night, and as the morning broke dull and cloudy I resolved to 

 see what could be found on the hillside rather than repeat my 

 experience of a wet walk in the forest. Crossing the meadows 

 behind the town I disturbed a few specimens of E. argiades and 

 N. semiargus, and then making a bee-line for the top through the 

 vineyards saw a solitary specimen of Pyrameis cardui, the only 

 record I have of its occurrence in the Vosges. In some disused 

 quarries on the crown of the hill, besides the two "blues" 

 already mentioned, Polyommatus cori/don and Rusticns argus 

 (cegon) were met with. A very pretty lightly-marked example of 

 Abi'axas grossulariata was caught on the way home. The after- 

 noon being a little brighter the forest was again visited, but on the 

 road where a fortnight before Aptura iris and A. ilia were abun- 

 dant, not one was now to be seen. About four o'clock, when I 

 got into the open country again, the sun came out for an hour 

 and sport was very good. On the clumps of wild thyme 

 Chrysophanus dorilis was much in evidence, and its congener 

 phlaas, fresh and bright, spread its golden wings in the sun- 

 shine. Colias hyale was flying freely, but C. edusa did not put 

 in an appearance, though I met with it on the following morn- 

 ing, which I spent on the outskirts of the forest in a more 

 northerly direction, when the Lycsenids already mentioned were 

 the chief objects of attack, a good series of C. dorilis being 

 quickly obtained. Altogether my visits to the forests on the 

 lower levels were most unfortunate, the weather being shower}'- 

 on each occasion, and the atmospheric conditions generally 

 not favourable for collecting. 



(To be continued.) 



LARVA OF ARGYNNIS LAODICE. 

 By T. a. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., &c. 



Mr. Feohawk's account of the life-history of A. laodice (antea, 

 pp. 49-54, pi. ii.) is so excellent, and his plate seems to me to 

 deserve such an overwhelming meed of praise, whether as regards 

 accurate and scientific entomology or as a most beautiful example 

 of the painter's art, that I hesitate to make a trifling comment 

 thereon. I do so, however, just because it is so good, and there- 

 fore possesses, because it deserves, such great weight, that it 

 seems desirable that weight should not be given to even a trifling 

 inaccuracy. This affects the hairs as shown on the enlarged draw- 

 ing of a segment of the first stage larva. Tubercles ii. and iii. are 

 shown with an expanded scutcheon, and a hair, and between them 

 a bulbous portion, no doubt that referred to in the description as a 

 " bulbous base" of the hair. The figure, then, shows three portions — 

 the tubercular scutcheon, the bulb, and the hair. Now, I have never 



