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The small race of E. ceto obtained last year by Dr. Chapman were 

 met with again this year. In colour and marking they are not 

 nearly so bright and conspicuously banded (?) as the race which 

 occurs on the southern side of the Alps — at Fusio, for example. It 

 goes without saying that E. viela?fipus wdiS common ; in the afternoon, 

 on the right bank of the Zmutt torrent, there were plenty among the 

 trees and brushwood skirting the Matterhorn pathway. Much 

 variety was easily obtainable, from specimens with distinct, well- 

 dotted rust spots to examples having rust spots almost without 

 easily discerned dots. Where C. phicomone and B. pales flew, there 

 was E. tyndarus glittering in certain lights of the sun's rays as it 

 twisted and oriented itself on whatever it settled. The undersides 

 varied much from clear silvery grey to a very dusky grey on the 

 hind-wings. A female specimen taken was of a yellowish-brown 

 below, and quite devoid of the apical twin spot on both upper and 

 under-side ; it was a good size, and had distinctly spotted fringes. 

 Another had the fringes as dark as the ground colour of the wing ; 

 this was a male. Last year Dr. Chapman very kindly handed me a 

 few Epinephele lycao^i, the close relation of our E. jurtina, but they 

 were all females ; this year, on the same ground, the males were 

 common among the scattered pine-tree slopes, and one specimen 

 had two spots on each fore-wing instead of the typical single spot. 

 The only other Satyrid seen was a worn example of Cxnotiympha 

 satyrion. A small, bright specimen o^ Adopica flava wsl^ met with ; 

 and several forms of what, in ignorance. I csW Hespet-ia alveiis, which 

 occurred in numbers, were captured. Possibly two or three species 

 are mixed up here. Some day, no doubt, when modern methods of 

 investigation are concentrated on this little group, we shall have light 

 thrown upon it ; at present, to me, at all events, it is a chaos. In 

 the bright sunny spots blues were congregated, often drinking on the 

 path at the wet patches of irrigation origin. Aricia astrarche was 

 present, of course of the var. aipina, the form without marginal 

 lunules on the upper side, and much darker in ground than our 

 English lowland form. Females of Polyomniatus escheri were met 

 with, but no male turned up. A worn Aricia donzelii, the first I 

 had taken, was netted, but no more were seen. The species was 

 apparently going over. A very nice female, A. euinedon, was taken, 

 and a specimen of Lycccna akon, a close relative of L. avion. The 

 form obscura of the latter species was common, but mostly worn. I 

 noted that the more worn the specimens the fewer blue scales 

 were on them. A graduated series in amount of blue scaling was 

 also a graduated series in freshness. Do the blue scales fall off more 

 easily than the dark ones ? This form is certainly smaller than 

 typical English ones. Heodes virgaurece was the "copper" of the 

 day, but females were scarce ; or perhaps their dull colour and 

 more retiring habits kept them from my purview. Those that were 

 met with were, of course, of the zermattensis form. One specimen 

 only of Chrysophajuts Jiippothoc, the rival " cb[)per," occurred ; in 



