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all suitable spots. When the glacier basin was reached and the trees 
wanting, the gentians were well in evidence on all the more open 
eround. The solitary summer hostelry, now two miles from the glacier, 
was reached after midday. It was solitary, for only two other visitors 
did we see, rumours of the pending great war had already begun to 
reach this secluded region and people were disappearing as if by magic. 
Somewhat south of this spot what a grand view one gets. Standing 
on the western edge of the great basin now vacated by the fast reced- 
ing glacier, we see the huge front of ice, quite a mile across from side 
to side, with its two arms extending east and west beyond the bases of 
Piz Tschierva and Piz Corvatsch. On the horizon Piz Rosegg, La 
Sella, Piz Gluschaint, and La Mouschin, all thickly snow-covered and 
continuous with the twin glacier, gleam in the brilliant sunshine. In 
the middle of this vast slope of many miles of snow stands, during the 
brief summer, the conspicuous green Alp of Agagliouls, sheep being 
driven over the glacier to feed on its slopes. This region, too, is 
famous as the last preserve of the chamois in the alps of Switzerland, 
and only on very special occasions are any of this slowly vanishing 
animal allowed by the authorities to be killed. 
The return from this glorious spot was made by the path on the 
right bank of the stream, in view, practically all the way, of the steep 
ereen slopes of the Shafberg, and later of the long string of hotels, 
which has now practically replaced the few modest huts of the former 
village of Pontresina. 
Before returning to the station, opportunity was taken to revisit the 
steep and narrow goree of the Bernina-bach, as it cuts through the 
hard rocks at the upper end of the village to the meadows below, on its 
way to the wide and flat river plain of the Inn, in the Samaden district 
of the main Engadine valley. Butterflies were now over and dull skies 
prevailed. 
(Lo be continued.) 
WMoOTHKS ON COLLECTING, Ete. 
Tue DisaperaRaANce or PararGE MGERIA AROUND Lonpon.— 
Pararge aegeria seems to have disappeared around London of late 
years, for no one has included it in their lists of captures which our 
magazines so frequently publish. Twenty years ago one could meet 
with the species in numerous localities south of London in more than 
one brood. Several places in the Box Hill area used to produce it, 
and I have also met with it at Bookham. Its only occurrence of which 
I heard last year was a long distant one. Mr. A. HK. Gibbs wrote me 
that he met with the first brood in some numbers at Sidmouth, in the 
beginning of May I believe. Possibly some of our readers in various 
places will give us a few notes on the recent occurrence of this pretty 
species, with dates and details as to the broods. LP. megaera is another 
Species that one does not find reported in our London Societies as 
occurring in the area of recent years. Mr, Gibbs and I met with 
several second brood examples at Royston, in August last year, but I 
had not seen it for some years till then, and not the first brood for 
many years.—H. J. Turner. 
WHERE DoES CHEIMATOBIA BOREATA HIDE DURING THE DAYTIME ?— 
I was interested in Mr. Page’s note re the above (Ent. Record, vol. 
