•252 THE entomologist's record. 



August 3rd. — It has rained all this week, which has driven me for 

 my spare time to the Bibliotheque Publique in the Rue Mariette. 

 Here I found an interesting book, " Les Papillons de I'Europe," par 

 Johanny Martin, and published in 1905 by Schleicher Freres of Paris. 

 I found this book absorbing, as now and then it gave instances of the 

 distribution of butterflies, especially in France, which I thought had 

 escaped our English works and magazines. 



August 6th. — This afternoon was sufficiently warm to make col- 

 lecting just possible, though the ground is still very sodden. I 

 collected between Boulogne and Wimereaux, on the top of the cliffs, 

 between the main road and the railway, though there is little good 

 ground, and you have to negotiate people and cattle. However, P. 

 icarus (summer brood) and Coenonympha paniphilus (summer brood) 

 were in full force in both sexes, and I got one perfect P. cardui on his 

 feast of teazles. I also took one specimen of the " Golden Y " moth, 

 Plusia iota, freshly emerged. I have also taken a couple of specimens 

 of the moth Strenia elathrata. 



August 8th.— To-day I took the tram to the old chateau of 

 Hardelot, beyond Pont-de-Briques. I tried for the second brood of 

 Melitaea cijixia, where the first brood occurs in May-June, by the 

 ponds between the old chateau and Pre Catalan, bat as the sky was 

 overcast I saw nothing. From 3.0 p.m. to 7.0 p.m. we had a succes- 

 sion of six thunderstorms, between which I got a total of fifteen 

 minutes actual collecting, when I took, beyond the Hotel at Pre 

 Catalan, 12 Brentlm seleiie, second brood (7 males and 5 females), one 

 Plusia gamma, and one Catocala nupta off a tree-trunk in perfect con- 

 dition. I saw Eiivanessa antiopa from the tram fiying between Pont 

 de Briques and the Chateau d'Hardelot, and I believe I should have 

 done well to-day had I had a chance. 



August 9th. — To-day I found a specimen of Bryophila muralis 

 (glandifera) and a Noctuid moth on the trunk of a tree in the boule- 

 vards outside the ramparts of the old town of Boulogne. 



August 10th.— This afternoon, collecting on the high ground on 

 the left beyond S. Leonard, near Pont-des-Briques, I found the 

 summer brood of Paranje mei/era fully out and quite abundant. Very 

 little else was on the wing, and I fear the recent heavy rains have been 

 very injurious to " insect life," as also to the crops. 



August 16th. — To-day along the tram route from Pont-de-Briques, 

 both before and after passing the Chateau d'Hardelot, I found the sum- 

 mer brood of Aricia medon (astrarche), both sexes, in good condition. 

 Beyond the restaurant at Pre Catalan, on the road to the left, I found 

 Vajiessa io, Aglais iirticae, Pyrameis atalanta, and P. cardui all in per- 

 fect condition, but not abundant. The day was too windy for a good 

 bag, but I still found a few B. aelene, second brood, worth keeping. I 

 have ascertained that Bithys [Thecla) quercits and Limenitis sibilla both 

 occur in the Foret d'Hardelot, though I have not yet made their 

 acquaintance. 



August 20th. — After a day of fine sunshine I was able to snatch 

 the last hour of insect flight this afternoon on the high ground above 

 S. Leonard to the left. I found Pararge inegera on the wing abun^ 

 dantly in both sexes. Abraxas qrossulariata was stirrnig quite 

 commonly with some varieties, and I took a female of P. icarus finely 

 "blued" on the upperwings. I have seen no signs of Urbicola 



