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I fear, and in such glorious and majestic surroundings one must he 

 excused for not spending the whole time in " mere " entomology. 

 In revelling in the sun's declining rays, and in jostling each other 

 on the flower heads, Atithrocera lo7iice?-a and A. pilosellce were most 

 persistent. The former species was abundant, but as to the prevalent 

 form, I fear my knowledge of the species is much too limited to 

 determine. One specimen was a very nice aberration, having the 

 blotches united in pairs, and extended with wide bands of colour 

 uniting the outer blotch and the double inner blotch with the double 

 central blotch. The specimens of A. piloselhv were small in size. 

 Among them was an example of A. achiUece in very good condition. 

 No other specimen was seen during my stay. A Geometer I took 

 here, Mr. Prout tells me, is a female of Larentia scripturata. 



When one is not alone entomology must not occupy every minute 

 of the holiday. There was a call for tea, and a return was made to 

 search the quaint single street of the village for a suitable resort. 

 What a mixture of contrasts ! Palatial, substantial hotels, humble, 

 rough wooden huts, jewellers' emporiums, cobblers' shops, decorated 

 refreshment houses, street stalls of all kinds, tobacconists' — -where 

 tourists of every country may find each his own especial brand — 

 booksellers' shops, where a goodly assortment of English sixpenny 

 novels are displayed, and numerous shops where may be obtained 

 all the '■'■ olla podrida" likely to be asked for by tourist, curiosity 

 seeker, or memento enthusiast, all jumbled together confusedly, 

 making this spot one of the wonders of the world. Tea, English- 

 like tea, is not always to be obtained far away from our own little 

 island, but we eventually did find a little retired nook where they 

 could make it, and we tea'd. The next important item in the pro- 

 gramme of the day-long wanderer in this delightful mountain air is 

 dinner. That over, then the after-dinner walk, the smoke, the 

 music, the coffee, or what you like. 'Tis strange ; I rarely go to a 

 fresh place, for only a few days even, but I meet with some one I 

 have met before, or a well-known friend unexpectedly turns up. 

 This evening, no sooner was I comfortably seated, than a gentleman 

 whom I knew well professionally, sat himself at the next table. 



July 31st showed every sign of fair weather, so we started for a 

 long day's ramble, having decided to follow up the Zmutt Valley for 

 some distance till we could find a way to cross the gorge and torrent, 

 and to return through the wooded slope on the left bank in the 

 afternoon. Most of the early portion of the day was spent on the 

 beautiful, sparsely wooded, mountain slope, which faced the south, 

 looking straight on to the Schwarze and the Matterhorn. Here 

 there was abundance of treasures, and consequently no great distance 

 was traversed. 



A favourite species of mine, Pararge mcera, was in numbers ; one 

 female was rather light in ground colour, but not an approach to the 

 beautiful specimens obtainable in the Pyrenees. The undersides 

 were also more soft and delicate than those generally met with high 



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