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new brood began to appear before we left, but I should say the 

 species was not very abundant. The same remarks apply to 

 Cupido minimus and Nomiades semiargiis ; while of Aricia medon 

 (astrarche) I saw but one, freshly emerged, near Nans at the end 

 of my visit. 



While writing of the " Blues " I will here make a leap of a 

 few days. On June 30th we moved down to the Hotel de Lorges, 

 near old Nans, at the foot of the road ascending to the plateau 

 of Plan d'Aups. This hotel is some 800 ft. lower down than 

 the Hotellerie. Late in the afternoon my wife and I, after 

 having taken rooms and arranged our baggage, went for a short 

 stroll. She called my attention to what she thought to be a 

 strange form of corydon at rest. I caught it and pill-boxed it, 

 but could only see the under side, which looked like a somewhat 

 unusual P. meleager. When killed it proved to be a typical 

 male Dolus. Of course on the next day we were on the look-out 

 for more, but it was not until two days later that it turned up 

 again, and then not on the same ground. The first specimen 

 was taken on the rocky sides of the hill upon which the ruined 

 chateau stands, but the rest were taken in the clearings of the 

 wood and edges of fields skirting the wood. On July 6th I got 

 six males and four females, and Mrs. Lowe two of each sex. In 

 this locality Dolus presents the double interest of affording 

 specimens both of the type and of var. vittata, usually assigned 

 solely to the Department of Lozere. I left before the species 

 was fully out, but my captures show of the type eleven males 

 and seven females, against five males and one female var. vittata. 

 It must be noted, however, that some of these reckoned of the 

 type form have a decided tendency to the streak on the upper 

 side hind wing which distinguishes the variety. They might be 

 called var. intermedia. This is particularly true of certain of 

 the males. 



All former specimens in my cabinet came from Florae and 

 Mende, the gifts of Mr. Jones and Mr. Rowland-Brown, and are 

 of course var. vittata. On comparing these with this year's 

 catch at Nans, it is at once evident that the Nans specimens are 

 on an average considerably larger than those from the Mende 

 district — a much darker blue, and also have a very much 

 broader black edge to the wings. It is quite easy to pick out a 

 Nans specimen if you mis them together. 



Agriades corydon began to appear on July 2nd at Nans, and 

 came out very slowly — the males with rather dark and sharply 

 defined margin ; the females did not show up before we left. I 

 took one very beautiful example of var. cinnus. 



One fine female, Lihythea celtis, was taken between Nans and 

 Sainte Baume off flowers of bramble. But I never saw another, 

 neither could I see any plants of Celtis australis. At Sainte 

 Baume Satyrus alcyone had appeared on June 24th ; at Nans, 



