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wild and cultivated, is a frequent and welcome tree. Other records I 

 \vd\e come across for the sunnuer appearance of /.. rdtis are given 

 l)y Mr. R. B. Postans (h'nt. ncronl, x., p. 31), Avho took worn 

 specimens in June, at Isella, in 1894, but observed none there in 1H97. 

 Mr. Tutt (Ent. llrmnl, x., p. 119) saw it at Susa after Au<,nist 10th, 

 Avhile Mv. Lemann (Ivnt. J!cconl, vii., p. 228) found it fairly abundant at 

 Mendel after .July Gth. Mr. Nicholson also took it at Digne July 11th- 

 l()th, where he mentions that it was partial to the clematis, and 

 lastly, Mr. Norris {Eiit., xxv., p. 262) records " two or three only seen 

 of this rare insect, with its peculiar habit of settling like a dragonfly 

 on the summit of a dead twig," at Certosa di Pesio, in July. Mn Tutt 

 also informs me that he captured in mid-April, 1898, a very fine speci- 

 men at Auribeau, near Cannes, and there is a note on its resting-habit in 

 the F!nt. lieconl, xi., p. 239. Hatyridae. — Mchnian/ia (jalatlica swarmed 

 everywhere, with var. pvocida much in evidence. ] {ipjiairliia cordiila, one 

 June 27th. llipparrlda aeinelc, common. Paran/c tiiacra, large and 

 bright, some individuals approaching var. ailrasta. P. tnciitura, very 

 frequent. Kjiini'phrlc ianira, large and dark. KmuUa In/perantliKs, on 

 the contrary, struck me as smaller than those met with in our British 

 localities, and I could find no specimens at all of ab. areti'. Cocno- 

 iii/iiijilia paiiiji/iilun, \yOvn. < '. arcania, everywhere, flitting in and out 

 of low growing shrubs, while at one point, just below Sta. Maria, I 

 took ('. var. satj/rion flying with it in a marshy meadow, h'lrbia ceto, 

 very generally distributed in the same localities as the last, with K. 

 ■^ti/ipu' and one or two very brightly marked E. cunjah', and more rarely 

 /'/. tiindantii with E. medusa, all these Erebias evidently making their 



drhiit. 



In conclusion 1 should say that the characteristic feature of the 

 Khopalocera, in the Susa district, is the brilliancy of wing-coloration, 

 and the great size of many species, as compared with the representa- 

 tives of various genera common to the lower Swiss Alps. These 

 features were especially noticeable in the case of Panta-^iiiiis apollti and 

 the Argynnids. But although in these respects specimens differed not 

 a little, I could discover but little variation from the familiar types. 

 Susa itself is a low-lying place, only 1,625ft. above the sea-level, but 

 most of my collecting was done on the higher slopes, and the contrast 

 was, therefore, the more remarkable, and may perhaps be due to the 

 splendid luxuriance of forest trees and vegetation generally. Intent 

 as I was on the day-fliers I gave little time to the Heterocera, but 

 students of the Anthrocerids will find the liigher levels teeming with 

 many beautiful species. Meanwhile it is to be hoped that one or other 

 of the steadily increasing band of those who make the Pahearctic 

 lopidoptera their especial care, will pay a July visit to the Italian side 

 of the Mont Cenis route. The Albergo di Sole, if not by any means 

 n)i to the standard of the average Swiss hotel, is better than the run 

 of smaller houses on the Italian side, and the landlord and his wife are 

 most obliging. 



Notes on Liiffia ferchaiiltella (pomonae). 



By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 Amongst the various material which i\Ir. Tutt has had gathered 

 together this year to elucidate the I'sijihidac, were cases of species 



