296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The radius issues from the basal third of the stigma. The sculp- 

 ture is stronger on the second abdominal segment than on the others ; 

 it runs on it into reticulations. 



The coloration of this species seems to be common in Borneo ; 

 it is found in Iphiaidax, Cremnops, and Disophyrs. 



THE BASSES-ALPES IN AUGUST. 

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



(Concluded from p. 262.) 



This aberration appears in every respect to correspond with 

 ab. female midas, Lowe, which occurs also on the high cliffs of 

 Vernayaz in the Rhone Valley, 



A morning in the gully that leads up to the high rocks over- 

 looking the Dourbes road may generally be counted well spent. 

 This year, however, much of the shrubbery and undergrowth 

 has been cut down, and in August also the garrigues — the 

 successive steps of long deserted vineyards, in which the wild 

 flowers run riot — are more or less burnt up. A large white 

 scabious proves the most attractive bait for such butterflies as 

 are about — worn examples of a third (?) brood of A. dia, S. actcea, 

 in all stages of dilapidation, fresh P. daplidice, and some monster 

 P. podalirius ab. feisthamelii, while not a few semi-transparent 

 Z. epJiialtes var. coronilla testify to earlier abundance. On the 

 summit there is the usual concourse of Papilionidse, but not 

 much else ; the P. machaon of normal size, and in colour for all 

 the world as though they had just been introduced from the 

 Cambridgeshire Fens ! 



Meanwhile, I had not forgotten the quest for E. scipio, and 

 on the 18th left Digne at half-past five upon the tramp which 

 was before me. But the north precipices of the long range of 

 cliffs that seem to shut in the valley so completely are out of 

 the sun until close upon noon, and though it is not easy to find 

 the one point of approach when actually past Villars, the kindly 

 offices of a farmer assisted me through the fir plantations which 

 are rapidly converting the barren hill- sides into useful and 

 agreeable forests, while upon the rough footpath, constructed for 

 the use of the verderers, have sprung up innumerable raspberry- 

 canes — now laden with svveet fruit — and plots of scented straw- 

 berries. When I finally mounted "the breach," about eleven 

 o'clock, I was in a state of pleasurable excitement. In the dewy 

 shadows of the forest I had encountered scarcely a butterfly, but 

 the sun was shining full upon the cleft which was surely to be 

 the desired terminus, and now I thought I was likely to be 

 rewarded. The further range of the Dourbes at this point slopes 



