338 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



M. Oberthur's 'Lepid. Compar^e,' fasc. iv. pp. 397-8, I find the 

 following interesting announcement : " Mrs. de la Batie [Beche] 

 NichoU has written me that she found Syricthus andromedce in 

 the Hautes-Pyrenees. For myself, I have seen no Pyrenean 

 examples. I have taken the species in the Bernese Oberland at 

 the end of June, 1898 ; but I do not believe, all the same, that 

 it has been met with up to now in the French Alps authen- 

 tically. It does not follow, however, by any means that 

 S. andromeda could not be a Pyrenean species, as Mrs. Nicholl 

 appears to be convinced it is." * 



Later on, when I had the good fortune to meet M. Charles 

 Oberthiir at Gavarnie, I was able to show him the small series of 

 Mr. Warren's Pyrenean andromedce, and I understand that a 

 pair are to be jSgured in the * Etudes ' of some future date, with 

 my note relative to the circumstances of capture. Mrs. Nicholl 

 tells me that her examples were secured some fourteen years 

 since near the Lac Vert (6430 ft.), which is in the Hautes- 

 Pyrenees, and about four hours up from Luchon, very close to 

 the Spanish frontier: therefore considerably east of Eaux-Bonnes, 

 and suggesting that the range of andromedce in these mountains 

 is wide, even if it does not occur throughout the entire chain at 

 sufficient altitudes. 



Had I read the Baron de Selys Longchamps's note on the 

 Pthopalocera of Eaux-Bonnes fifty years ago, before I started on 

 my exploration of the mountains there, instead of a month or so 

 after my return, I think it extremely probable that I should have 

 tried my luck elsewhere. His account of a three weeks' visit 

 from June 15th to July 10th, 1857 C Bull. Ent. Soc. France,' 

 1858, p. Ixxii.) is not encouraging. In all that time he only 

 encountered forty species, of which "the most remarkable were 

 Anthocharis simplonia, Carcharodus althece, and un Syricthus a 

 determiner. There was but a single Erehia (and of course it 

 was E. stygne). . . . This fact should suffice to persuade an ento- 

 mologist to choose any other locality than Eaux-Bonnes as the 

 objective of an excursion in the Pyrenees." 



One wonders whether that " Syricthus a determiner " ivas 



species from the Pyrenees, and perhaps this is not surprising, considering its 

 obscurity and apparent rarity." Dr. Keynes also informs me (in litt.) that 

 neither he, nor Mr. Wheeler, feel any doubt that these two specimens are 

 genuine andromedce ; a species with which they are well acquainted else- 

 wliere. 



•■= I find among the extra- Swiss localities for the species in Mr. Wheeler's 

 ' Butterflies of Switzerland,' p. 6, under H. andromedce, •' Alios, July 15th- 

 18th, 1899 (Powell) " ; and I think this record must have escaped M. Ober- 

 thiir, as Mr. Harold Powell, F.E.S. is an authority we can all trust and 

 follow with perfect confidence. Milliere's "La Turbie, May," is a most 

 unlikely record. La Turbie is only 1594 ft. above Monte Carlo and the sea- 

 level; and Milliere seems to have had a bad eye for the identification of 

 " macros " ! 



