128 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pieris brassiccs, P. rapcB. — Both rare. 



Colias phicomone. — The commonest Golias. — C. edusa, C. 



Nymphalid^e. — Argyn7iis aglaia. — Common. 



A. niobe. — Less so. I do not remember seeing A. adippe, nor 

 does Guillemot record it. 



Issoria lathonia. — Common, especially just outside the village 

 towards the Col. 



Brentliis pales. — At sufficient altitudes ; but the commoner was 

 undoubtedly B. arsilache, of which I took a lovely blanched female 

 aberration in the Val d'Ornaye, a few minutes' walk from the main 

 road. In this example the rufous ground of the upper side of the 

 fore wings has entirely disappeared, and the ground colour is creamy 

 white { = primula, new ab.). The same peculiarity is observable on 

 the hind wings, but the failure of colour less pronounced. At a dis- 

 tance the butterfly rather suggested a female C. phicomone, but the 

 diilerent flight, sluggish and hesitating, fortunately caused me to 

 make a closer inspection. A tendency to albinism was decidedly 

 noticeable in the Larche females of arsilache. Of pales, Guillemot 

 speaks of the var. napaa — the familiar violet-shot female form — at 

 Godessart ; and I took two of this variety in the Val d'Ornaye, 

 among others typical. 



{Melitcea cynthia. — Eeported from the Pain de Sucre, and one at 

 Malmorte by Guillemot, not observed at Larche ; nor M. aurinia 

 var. merope, which may have been over.) 



M. varia. — Occasionally. 



Pyrameis cardui. — Eare. 



Aglais urtica. — Just emerging, and brightly coloured. 



Pararge mcera. — On the wane. 



Epinephele jurtina. — Not common. 



E. lycaon. — Less rare, and in good order. 



Canonympha iphis. — Common in all the meadows — Val d'Ornaye, 

 Val de Lauzanier, &c. 



G. pamphilus. — Some of the females very large, the size of average 

 C tiphon. 



G. danoiniana. — Eare. 



Erebia epiphron. — Many of the males and females examined were 

 much nearer to the type than to var. cassiope ; but none of the 

 females show white-pupilled ocellation. Not common. 



E. mnestra. — Well distributed ; var. gorgophone, Col de Larche. 



E. alecto, var. duponcheli, Obthr. { — pluto Esp. ?). — Not un- 

 common at about 8000 ft. No typical alecto, or var. glacialis observed. 



E. ceto. — One female in the grass where the stream crosses the 

 path up the Val d'Ornaye. 



E. stygne. — Over. 



E. scipio. — One male only taken, on the 26th, flying with 

 numerous other Erebias in the Val d'Ornaye below the " alecto " 

 line. Although I worked this place three or four times subsequently, 

 I did not meet with another, and I expect the species was only just 

 coming out. It is stated by Guillemot to occur on the rocky slopes 

 below the last pastures of Ozglosse, and on the left bank of the 

 Ubayette above the junction of that river with the Ubaye. 



