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(April 23rd). Pales. Common on the mountains; a curious dark variety occurred 
on the Riffelberg. Dia (April 13th). Daphne? Sepey. Lathonia (April 7th). 
Aglaia, Niobe, Paphia. Allcommon. A single specimen of Paphia ? var. Valesina 
in the Zermatt Valley. 
Grapta C-album. Vanessa polychloros, urtice, Io, Antiopa, All more or less 
common. Pyrameis cardui, scarce. Atalanta. Limenitis Sibylla. Common at 
Bex and Sepey. Camilla. As common as Sibylla at Bex, but apparently confined 
to the hot Rhone Valley, as I never saw it at Sepey. Nymphalis populi. Sepey. 
Apparently rare, as I only saw one specimen. Apatura Iris. Sepey. Also very 
rare. | 
Melanagria Galathea (May 28th). A perfect pest in all the lowlands, Lasiom- 
mata Mera, Hiera, Megera, Mgeria. I am not quite sure of Hiera, but took two 
insects apparently referable to this species at Sepey. Dejanira, Bex. Hipparchia 
Proserpine, Hermione, Semele, Cordula. All common. Phedra. Bex, in August. 
Iycaon. Zermatt, common. Janira, Hyperanthus. Caenonympha Iphis. Bex. 
Philea. Abundant on mountains. Pumphilus. Chionobas Aello. I only took one 
worn specimen of this mountain species. Sepey. Erebia Melampus, me, Alecto, 
Manto, Tyndarus, Gorge ? Goante, Pronoé, Medea, Ligea, Ewryale. Many of these 
were widely distributed on the mountains, but Manto I only took on one mountain 
above Bex, and Alecto seemed confined to the summit of the Gornergrat, some 
10,000 feet above the sea. Medea and Ligea were taken at lower elevations at Bex 
and Sepey. 55 species of Nymphalide. 
Nemeobius Lucina (April 22rd). Common. Bex and Sepey. One species of 
Hrycinide. 
Thecla betule. A few worn specimens near Montreux in the autumn of 1869. 
W-album. Bex. Pruni, very common in the neighbourhood of Bex. Quercis. 
Rubi (April 12th). 
Polyommatus virgawree. Zermatt. EHurydice (May 25th). Sepey. Common. 
I took one strange variety of the 9 of this species, in which the ordinary spots of 
the under-side were collected into black marginal streaks. The right and left wings 
differed, and their upper-surface also differed somewhat from the type. The insect 
was somewhat crippled, which may account for the variation. Dorilis (May oth). 
Lycena Tiresias. Bex and Brunnen. Agon. Argus. Hylas. One specimen 
at Bex on May 4th. Pheretes. Zermatt, rare; I only took two, both females. 
Orbitulus and Hros, common on the mountains. Medon, Icarus, Adonis, Corydon, 
Dorylas, Damon. All common. Donzelii, Zermatt. Why should this species be 
confined to larch woods? Argiolus, Alsus, Semiargus. All common, Cyllarus 
(April 20th). Common at Bex. Alcon. One or two on the mountains. Arion, 
common. 28 species of Lycenide. 
Pyrgus malwarum. Bex. Lavatere. Rather scarce, but widely distributed. 
Alveus. Common on the mountains. Cacalie. Rare. Zermatt. Malve. Very 
common through the summer. Sao. Zermatt. 
Nisoniades Tages. Pamphila lineola, Sywanus and comma. All common. 
Cyclopides Paniscus (May 21st). Common at Sepey. 11 species of Hesperide. 
This seems a very fair number of species for so confined a district as that in 
which | worked: yet several species are absent from the list, which I should have 
expected to be common. Among these are A. Selene and Adippe, and H. Tithonus. 
