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took a specimen of the Forester Moth, Ino geryon, whose greenish 

 forewings gleamed in the bright sun, a noticeable contrast to 

 the green grass. 



A specimen of the Hymenopteron Mebopius micratqrius had entered 

 our carriage between Culoz and Bellegarde this morning, and a French 

 officer having pointed it out to me I boxed it in the corridor of the 

 train. 



Leaving Bellegarde at 11.25 a.m., I arrived after a hot, slow, and 

 tedious journey at Gex, in the Department Ain, and situated below the 

 slopes of the French Jura, about 2.0 p.m. ; the view of the Grand 

 Saleve, and the Petit Saleve, and Les Voirons, and the Mont Blanc 

 range behind is very fine, and could be seen from our carriage windows 

 most of the journey. I put up at the Hotel du Commerce at Gex, 

 which I found respectable, clean, and cheaper than I expected, and 

 well served. 



June 21th. — This morning after Mass at the Parish Church, I had 

 the pleasure of meeting Doctor Gide, who lives at Gex, and who has a 

 small though extremely well set collection of the local butterflies and 

 moths. One of the most interesting things in his collection was a 

 perfectly fresh specimen of Carter ocephalus palaemon (paniscus), caught 

 around Gex in May. I don't think he has by any means exhausted 

 the local fauna as yet, and he told me he had very little time to devote 

 to Entomology. This afternoon I took a country road from Gex that 

 leads up gradually through farms on to the lower slopes of the Juras, 

 which are quite close here. Unfortunately the sun soon went in, and 

 I came home drenched from a sudden thunderstorm, but though my 

 insects captured only resulted in a few perfect specimens of Melitaea 

 athalia and M. diclyma, a few Cupido minimus, M. galathea, and a fine 

 blue female of P. icarus ab. caerulea, Fuchs, a finely marked female of 

 Pieris napi, together with the Chimney-Sweep Moth and Pyrausta pur- 

 puralis ; the Dipteron Tachina ferox ; and the Bhynchota Leptopterna 

 dolabrata, L., I feel sure that a better day would have given better 

 results, especially if I had been able to ascend to higher ground. 

 However, a collection of some 45 different species of flowers made up 

 for a poor entomological bag. 



Jane 28th. — This morning, with no sun, but with insects of all 

 orders crowding to the blossoms and leaves of many plants fresh with 

 the heavy rain of yesterday, a little way out of Gex, in the direction 

 which the road to the Col de la Faucille takes, amid partly cut hay in 

 the fields below the Jura slopes, I found the males of the moth, Coscinia 

 striata in numbers and very fresh ; one fine male of Papilio machaon, 

 two fine males and one finely marked female of Polyommatus hylas, and 

 one female of A. aglaia, with a few picked specimens of (.'. minimus 

 and M. athalia were the most interesting butterflies on this sunless day, 

 but a number of Diptera, including Sphaerophoria ; Orthoptera, includ- 

 ing Chorthippus pardllelus, Zett., a larva of the genus Pholidoptera, 

 whose species I have not succeeded in ascertaining, also a male of 

 Decticus verrucivorus, L., and some Hymenoptera. These, together 

 with a specimen of the Rhynchota, Syromastus marginatum, L., provided 

 plenty of research on my return home. 



In the aiternoon I visited the same ground as in the morning, and 

 found that P. hylas males were more numerous, and I took one female. 



Ascending to higher ground I found Nordmannia (T/iecla) ilicis on 



