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privet, also Rlugia spini on bramble. Higher up still, just by the tree 

 limit on the Jura slopes, I took two fine Pavnassius apollo males, and saw 

 one or two Erebia euryale and Pararge achine, but failed to secure 

 them. The Diptera were interesting though somewhat hostile. The 

 afternoon turned out very fine after a dull day in general. Avgynnis 

 aglaia were swarming at clover blossoms, with A. cydippe (adippe) in 

 lesser numbers, and I also took several perfect specimens of M. parthe- 

 nie and one Lycaena euphemus, the only one I saw. Females of Colias 

 hyale were busy ovipositing in clover-fields in the late afternoon. 

 Burnet Moths in general and Aporia crataegi were too passes to take. 

 E. jurtina and C. pamphilus were in all stages of condition, and the 

 three connnon Pierids plentiful in the district. I turned up a fine 

 large green form of the grasshopper, Deciicus verrucivorus,, L., from 

 newly cut hay, and the Orthopteron, Locusta viridissima, L., was in 

 great quantity in suitable places. Leptosia sinajris was apparently 

 just emerging here. Aylais urticae was common. 



June 29£/f. — This morning I tramped the six kilometers to Sauverny 

 in which village the Swiss and French frontiers meet at the river 

 Versoix. I went there for Limenitis populi, but never saw it, though I 

 got on to likely ground once about half way to Sauverny, where, on a 

 branch road running past a chateau on left, and keeping to the right 

 of a small stream, I walked up a small incline, where Apatura ilia and 

 E. polychloros were flying up and down the muddy road in small num- 

 bers, and sipping at the puddles with swarms of P. rapae and Cyaniris 

 semiavgus (avis). Just across the stream mentioned, near the chateau, 

 I found in a sloping meadow with a considerable amount of rush, a 

 good number of L. avion, males and females, in excellent condition, 

 and I took a fine series. The males of P. davion were emerging in 

 small quantities in the same field, and the males of P. hylas were 

 frequent. 



Here also I took the moth A. luctuosa and two specimens of Pseudo- 

 terpna pruinat'a, Hiifn., Nordmannia (Thecla) acaciae, Fabr., and also 

 one specimen of Tenthredella temuVa, Scop. On the way back from 

 Sauverny I took C. typhoii (one), and also a male of Pontia daplidice. 

 M. didyma and M. dictynna were about in small quantities. I took also 

 one male of Cupido sebrits in very fair condition, and a specimen 

 of the beetle Strangalia ariuata, Herbst., also one female of P. hylas, 

 and a specimen of the beetle Coccinella septempunctata. I also took 

 to-day a female specimen of the Orthopteron Decticus verrucivorus, L., 

 and the bee Bombus sylvarum, and a couple of the ants Formica 

 pratensis. 



June 30th. — This afternoon a French gentleman, Monsieur A. 

 Morey, of Beaune, Cote D'Or, staying at this hotel, kindly motored me 

 to the Col de la Faucille, where, unhappily, it began to rain so hard 

 that collecting insects was impossible, barring two specimens of Hymen- 

 optera, Bombus hovtovum and Allantus kohlevi, which I got just before 

 returning during an interval in the storm. However, I made a collec- 

 tion of some 40 different species of sub-alpine flowers, including a few 

 Alpine forms, amongst these plants were Hedysavum obscurum, Ranun- 

 culus alpestris, Dianthus sylvestris, Rosa alpina, Gymnadenia albida, 

 ' Carduus defloratus; Centaurea montana, Cytisus alpinus, Calamintha 

 alpina, A'denostyles alpina, Giobularia cordifolia, Phyieuma spicatum, 

 Myosotis alpestris, Ranunculus lanuginosus, etc. 



July 1st. — This morning 1 took a ramble on the wooded hillside of 



