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alpine species in the Grisons are at a higher level compared with their 

 habitats in the rest of the Alps. The form taken may be called var. 

 nelamus, I suppose, more obscure in markings and definition than 

 var. cassiope. Aphelia ossemia (pratana) was in some numbers, of a 

 form with more suffused and uniform clouding and with much less 

 definite markings than in specimens taken in our English pine woods. 

 I was much struck with the sun effects on the coloration of the Hesperia 

 that were sitting on flower and seed heads in the late afternoon. My 

 rough note says "sunshine through," and "all colours." The effect 

 was very beautiful, one could hardly suppose that it was possible to get 

 such a varied colour effect and combination from the action of the 

 light on the dull initial elements of Hesperid colour. 



On August 24th, we took advantage of a beautiful autumn day to 

 go again to the Haanen See. It was a solitary walk, not a visitor to 

 be met anywhere, either going or returning. We felt our solitude, we 

 were left behind, and apparently all were gone. A steady walk up the 

 sharp gradients of the Johannisberg brought us to the Hahnen See 

 Eestaurant (summer), now deserted, 7070 ft. above sea level, and just 

 above the tree zone, which is higher here than in most parts of 

 Switzerland. Insects of course were few. A much belated Latiorma 

 orbituliis on its restricted habitat another 100 feet higher up, an odd 

 example of Zipjaena exulam whose rendezvous I could not find, a 

 number of Goenonymplia satyrion mostly ab. iinicolor with a specimen of 

 what one might call ab. xniicolor-ohsoleta, in which the eye-spots on the 

 underside of the hindwings were absent except for a small dot, the 

 remnant of the spot at the anal angle ; the eyespot at the apex of the 

 wing being the only full sized representative of the usual row. Here, 

 too, an odd example of Colias palaeno was taken and several E. epiphmn 

 var. iielaDiiix. Instead of returnmg by the same path we came, as on 

 previous occasions, another longer way indicated in our Bsedeker was 

 chosen. This led by much less sharp gradients along the western slopes 

 of Pitz Rosatseh across several screes to the remarkable huge mass of 

 broken rocks at the back of the Kurhaus and Stahlbad Hotel, down 

 which we descended to St. Moritz bad. 



August 25th. — Still waiting, waiting. No definite news of home, 

 no arrangement for return, it was difficult to appease one's mind for the 

 future. As it turned out this was the last day of our collecting. We 

 actually discovered a walk new to us, through the Statzer Alp, the 

 woods on the mountain slopes at the back of St. Moritz Lake and 

 Statzer See. Here wood-cutting had commenced and the paths were 

 frequently obstructed by the fallen pines. Lepidopteva were con- 

 spicuously few in numbers a,nd our desires were few for I had heard by 

 an odd English paper that had got through that I should have been at 

 my duties a fortnight previously. However, things were moving, and 

 at dinner that evening a message from the British Consul told us to 

 be ready to move in a day or two. 



August 26th, was spent in getting ready, for we (there were nine 

 English remaining) had been informed that we must go to Berne. 

 There were apparently jealousies between the various consuls ; and 

 tickets, etc., for us had been " thrown into the waste paper basket," 

 because the British authorities did not give the arrangements for our 

 return to one of them to carry out. 



