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if F. callidice were there, but no ; I expect my chance would have 

 been looo ft. higher up, but that will be another time. In the 

 hollows there were plenty of Brenthis pales, nearly all males, in fact 

 only two females were met with. There seemed to be two types in 

 size and shape. All were of the red-underside form. One specimen 

 was particularly red, the others were dull red, with markings not 

 clearly cut. In a few specimens the undersides of the fore-wings were 

 somewhat unusually devoid of markings. Among the B. pales, flying 

 very low and very difficult to see, were a few iMelitiea aurittia var. 

 merope, the diminutive dusky form in the high mountain areas of the 

 species whose Irish and Welsh forms are so variable and beautiful. 

 Af. parthetiie var. varia was common, and one or two nice examples 

 were taken, in which the black markings were very largely diminished 

 in number and intensity. Erebia vinestra was abundant and in very 

 good condition, mostly males, however. Dr. Chapman took this species 

 at Binn in 1908, but those he gave me were decidedly smaller than 

 those I took here. All the specimens had either bands or traces of 

 bands on the hind-wings. Among them a single -£'.^''(?a^^/(f occurred. 

 On the same ground there were also plenty of E. lytidartis, of which 

 a few have more or less indistinct banding, while in many the under- 

 sides of hind-wings were very dark clouded. One specimen was 

 var. ccecodromus, without trace of the apical eye on either upper or 

 under surface. Only one M. dictymia was taken or seen, a female 

 with considerable amount of light area on the upper wings, but some- 

 what darker than usual on the lower. Latioiiiia orbitulus was very 

 common, but past its prime, in fact only two or three were selected 

 as at all presentable. In size they are the same as some I have from 

 Arolla, but smaller than the Berisal race. One or two specimens 

 have the black centres to the eye-spots on the hind-wing almost 

 obliterated. With the last species were quantities of Vacciniina 

 optilete, but worn to rags. Here and there one met with Argyiinis 

 niobe, all somewhat small. Ccenonympha satyrion was common, 

 but worn, some apparently near the form known as var. unicolor. 

 Their ground-colour varied much ; one was very similar to C. 

 pamphihis on the upper side of the fore-wing. The darker specimens 

 were minus the apical spot on the fore-wings on the under-side, 

 while the lighter ones had it. A single example of A. eumedon was 

 taken, a female. I did not get at the habit of this species somehow, 

 for it only occurred in single specimens anywhere. To my surprise I 

 took only one E. epiphrou, and that very worn. I had hoped to meet 

 with it in numbers. Nemeophila plantagi)iis was the only Hetero- 

 ceron I noticed here. In facies and colour it was the exact facsimile 

 of an example I took near Winchester in mid-June, while attending 

 the Congress of the South-Eastern Union. The wild pathway 

 towards the Findelen hut above the glacier yielded but little that 

 was fresh. The bread-and-cheese, etc., at this lonely habitation was 

 taken with the utmost relish, for our mountain walk in the bracmg air 

 had given us an appetite to enjoy it to the full. Lower down, among 



