10 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



wells out of the ground, and several very pleasant meals were taken 

 there and all efforts to drink it dry were unavailing. 



We worked very hard to find Latiorina pyrenaic'a, both on the way 

 to Port de Spain and also on the way up Pimene, but had no success 

 until July 12th when we took six on the way to Port de Spain and one 

 more on the same ground on July 15th : we were no doubt too early 

 for it. L. orbitulns we did not find at all. 



On July 13th we started in a thick fog by the lower road up 

 Pimene, and where the path crosses a steep gulley we found a sooty 

 black Erebia which I take to be Erebia manto v. caecilia. Our nets 

 were so drenched with fog as to be useless, but we managed to box a 

 nice little series as they sat on the dripping grass heads. They 

 seemed to be confined to a small patch about 20 yards by 10 as we 

 could not find them either above or below, and possibly they came up 

 the gulley. 



Melanargia galathea var. leucomelas is said to be found near the 

 village, but though we netted and examined a large number we failed 

 to turn it up. 



The flowers were interesting but were not in such profusion as in 

 some Swiss valleys. At Luchon we found the " Sweet William," 

 which was new to me as a wild flower, and a pale Viola with stem 12 

 to 18 inches long and a long spur. Ramondia pyrenaica was going 

 over at Gavarnie, but there were still some fine blooms left, and 

 in some places were grand specimens of Saxifraga lonyifolia, which 

 does not appear to bloom until the plant reaches a considerable size. 

 On Pimene we found a small Colchicinn, so dwarf that the petals lie 

 back ofa the turf. Gentians were rather poor and G. acaulis generally 

 looked ill-grown and unhappy, but we found some beautiful patches of 

 the little Gentiana nivalis. 



The most striking flower at Gavarnie was the purple Iris, and when 

 seen in a mass on a mountain side it was a sight to be remembered. 



Of the black and white Skippers, Hesperia carihami was fairly 

 common, but so small in comparison with Ehone Valley specimens as 

 to be recognised with difficulty. We took several Poivellia sao, and 

 some others, which at present 1 do not feel competent to name. 



On July 16th we moved on to Biarritz and walked to the Lac 

 Mouriscot, where we took Heteropterus morpheas and Coenonympha 

 oedipus among the reeds, but neither were plentiful and many were 

 decidedly past their best. Enodia dryas was in fine condition and we 

 took a nice series, including some large ? ? . and also a single 

 specimen of Hipparchia (Satyrus) arethusa. 



We left Biarritz on the 20th and arrived home in the early hours 

 of the 22nd after a tedious journey, but well content to have again 

 felt the sun and tasted of the joys of the chase. 



Lepidoptera in Peninsular Italy during the year 1920. 



By 0. QUERCI. 



(Continued from p. 227.) 



When, at the beginning of the month of June, 1920, I was 



persuaded that every hope 6f collecting in Florence was excluded, I 



took counsel with Dr. Verity as to the best mode of employing my 



time. It was decided that I should go to the marshes of the lake of 



