170 THE entomologist's record. 



in the walls, was abundant, and the imagines had scarcely any traces m 

 of the normal green veins on the undersides of the hind- wings. /'/Vr/.s i 

 rojiae were small, and Pit'ris hrassica'' scarcely ever observed. On the 

 other hand, the shady corners produced Ttcitcdphmia si)u(jiis var. dinien- 

 sis in some abundance, the ab. cri/sinii, however, being distinctly rare. 

 (Tnnejdcri/.r rJiaiind and ('alias cdiisa, without being really abundant, 

 were everywhere, whilst, in much greater numbers, males of ( 'olios 

 hijalc flew over the fields and careered along the steep slopes, the 

 females favouring the stubble-fields, and laying their eggs on the young 

 clover showing there. In the stubble-fields, too, lUrntliis dia swarmed; 

 there were literally hundreds of examples of this remarkably small 

 second brood, the females laying their eggs on the small wild heart's- 

 ease plants that were growing there. Jhrnthis /«o was represented by a 

 few very worn examples, one of which, however, gave me an egg, 

 described ante, vol. x., p. 16. Dnjas papliia Avas going over, but the 

 var. ralesina was occasionally seen with the type; Aniiinnis atlijijicyvas 

 in better condition, and some fine large and fresh females were 

 observed, whilst A. ai/laia was distinctly rare. A. lathonia, however, 

 was in the finest possible condition, and in considerable abundance 

 where the lucerne grew in great bushes on steep banks as hard as 

 ironstone, and from which one could not suspect the plants could 

 obtain an atom of nourishment. There, too, was JiijiparcJiia alojonc, 

 easier to catch than on the roadsides where it feasted on the faeces, 

 but was even then too wary to let one come often within striking 

 distance. When disturbed it rested on the trunks of the trees and 

 was most difficult to locate exactly. Hij^parcJiia sriiich', too, strangely 

 enough, was more abundant on the lucerne blossoms than in its normal 

 habitat among the rocks ; Sati/nis curdida, was practically over, 

 although one or two fine females fell to the net, whilst Mchotaniia 

 l/alatlira, in all sorts of condition, from ladies fresh as paint to females 

 worn and tattered, were almost everywhere, about as dark, though, as 

 most specimens of this species are in the lower mountain valleys, /./■., 

 as dark as the darkest specimens obtainable as aberrations in the south 

 of I'ingland. I'aranir iiiacra had another brood out, and P. nicijarra 

 darted swiftly to and fro with its larger relative. J^pincphdc hjcaim 

 and K. ianira were almost equally common, the odds, however, 

 slightly in favour of the latter, whilst ('ocnoniinijdia pawphilus was 

 usually met with on waste grassy places and Avith a tendency to the ab. 

 nnllata. Some spots Avere found Avhere the beautiful <'Jn;i^i)phaniis 

 I iri/dinca'- abounded, some of the females, Avith extra spots Avithin the 

 normal transverse series crossing the fore-Avings, being very fine. They 

 A\ere nmcli brighter than the females obtained at Cogne, but ( '. Iiip- 

 piitlioc Avas evidently rare here (or over), Avhilst large C p/daras, and its 

 abs. siitf'iiya and can-idt'opinirtata Avere none too al)undant. The " blue "' of 

 these moimtains is I'dli/iDiniiatiis daiinni. There is a piece of Avaste 

 ground through Avhich the zigzags A\ind, at al)out 1,000ft. elevation 

 behind the toAvn, on Avhich, as the sun becomes hidden by tlie giant peak 

 above, they sit in countless myriads, dispersing during the daytime to 

 croAvd about the runlets that trickle here, there, and everyAvhere. Only 

 less abundant is /'. ronjddn at this elevation, Avhilst it altogether out- 

 numbers /'. da limn nearer the toAvn. /'. icunis is not A'cry common, 

 nor is 7'. astrarc/ir, inclining to A'ar. aljdna, Avhilst Xainiadrs snnianiiis 

 is not rare. L'l/aniris an/ioliis, as usual, is only occasionally captured 



