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hood: — Hemaris bombylifornris and H. fuciformis (larvag), several 

 Anthrocerid species — Setina aurita (with var. ramosa), Arctia plan- 

 taginis (with var. Jwspita), Spilosoma xirticae, Hepialus humuli and H. 

 hectus, Dasychira fascelina, Malacosoma franconica (larvae), Ceruravinula 

 and C. furcula (larvae), Notodofita droniedarius, Lophopteryx camelina, 

 Clostera reclusa (larvae), Acronycta myricae and A. menymithidis (on 

 posts among heather), Noctua glareosa (larvae), Galocampa exoleta 

 (larvae), Anarta cordigera, and other Noctuids. In the Geometrids — 

 Abraxas sylvata, Pericallia syringaria (pupae), Angeroyia prunaria, 

 Venilia macidaria, Boarmia repandata, Gnop/ios obfuscata, Scoria 

 lineata, Cidaria silaceata, and many other species. At Interlaken I 

 again took Hyloicus pinastri on spruce and Scotch fir trunks, also 

 Zeuzera pyrina on a lamp, a single specimen of Urbicola comma, the 

 larvae of Earias chlorana, and one Lymantria monacha. During my 

 stay here I found the isolation of the Kleine Sheidegg more than I 

 cared for, so, for the fortnight, I took up my quarters at the Hotel 

 Victoria, Wengen, at an elevation of about 4000ft., and within easy 

 reach of Lauterbrunnen and Miirren. 



Having exchanged my chaplaincy for that of Les Avants, I left 

 Wengen on July 13th and travelled, via Speiz, on the lake of Thun, 

 and Zweisimmen, by the newly-opened electric railway (known as 

 Montreux-Oberland-Bernois) through some of the most delightful 

 scenery. Les Avants is situated on the slope above Montreux, and 

 commands a charming view of Lac Leman and the entrance to the 

 Rhone Valley. Here I stayed for the better part of three weeks, and, 

 though the district had been more or less explored on previous occasions, 

 I was fortunate in procuring quite a number of species hitherto 

 unnoticed. The railway embankments, with their masses of bramble 

 and Eupatorium cannabinum , were especially productive, and here it was 

 that I took for the first time a nice but short series of the pretty 

 Coenonympha arcania. Another new and most acceptable addition was 

 made in the discovery of some half-dozen gloriously fresh Satyrus circe. 

 These were sometimes seen flitting over a recently mown hay-field, but 

 were more often observed behaving like the Emperor family, and 

 settling on the leaves of trees high above one's head. These grassy 

 slopes culminated in a long ridge called Cubly, plentifully clothed with 

 poplar. Here, as I had dared to anticipate, I was fortunate enough to 

 secure my one specimen — a large and handsomely marked female — 

 of Limenitis populi. This also behaved like Apatura iris, and it was some 

 time before I could induce her to leave her lofty perch and fly within 

 range of the net. A favourite hunting-ground was the Valley of 

 Tiniere, approached by walking along the lake for a mile or so beyond 

 the Castle of Chillon. This was, par excellence, the abode of Apatura 

 iris, Limenitis Camilla and L. sibylla, and here I saw var. valesina of 

 Dryas paphia. A couple of miles up the valley, a natural ride or 

 clearing had been made through the trees by the descent of an avalanche 

 of snow, which had carried all before it, and lay there almost completely 

 covered with stones and mud, the broken fragments of trees and debris 

 of all sorts. One or two saplings, a sycamore, an elm, and a few 

 sallow-bushes had managed just to retain their hold, but had been 

 sadly broken and bent by the impact into a horizontal position about 

 six feet from the ground. This had caused the sap to exude in many 

 places, which proved, especially in the case of the sycamore, an unfailing 



