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HOLIDAY CAPTURES IN 1886 ON THE RHINE AND IN THE 

 PALATINATE. 



BY G. T. BAKER, F.LS. 



My holiday in 1886 was spent on the Ehine, at Heidelberg and 

 in Switzerland. We — i. e., my wife and I — started on June the 8th 

 for Cologne, from that place we went up the Rhine, staying a few 

 days at St. Goarshausen, a beautiful little spot, about a mile from the 

 celebrated Lorelei Rock, immortalized in German song. Never before 

 had I heard such a flood of music as saluted me on awaking very early 

 at this lovely place ; the nightingales, by the score, I should think, 

 were pouring forth their melody in a perfect torrent. Leaving here 

 with many regrets, we continued our way up the Ehine to Mainz, and 

 thence by rail to Heidelberg, where we stayed a fortnight. Un- 

 fortunately, we just came in for a short period of rain, and this, 

 combined with the fact of having many non-entomological friends in 

 the old Palatinate capital, helped to render our captures here very 

 much less numerous than would otherwise have been the case. I will, 

 however, record them all before proceeding to Switzerland, where we 

 were more fortunate, both as regards weather and insects. Omitting 

 the common PieridcB, the Lyccenidce were only represented by Thecla 

 acacice and Lyccena Astrarche, both species being taken at St. Goars- 

 hausen. 



Vanessa c-album, Heidelberg. Melitcea Athalia, St. Goarshausen, abundant. 

 Pararffe Megara and Mara, v. Adrasta, both St. Goarshausen. Epinephile Janira, 

 Heidelberg. Casnonympha Arcanius, Heidelberg, very abundant. Syricthus alveolus 

 and carthami, St. Goarshausen. Hesperia sylvanns, St. Goarshausen. Smerinthtts 

 tilicB, Neckargemund, a beautiful little village on the Neekar, a little above Heidelberg. 

 Ino statices, St. Goarshausen. Zygmna achillece, St. Goarshausen. Calligenia mini- 

 a<a, Heidelberg. Arctia purpurea, Heidelberg, not uncommon. Euchelia jacobaa, 

 St. Goarshausen. Porthesia similis, taken on the base of a lamp-post just in front of 

 our hotel at Heidelberg. Stauropus fagi, in the woods behind the cemetery, Heidel- 

 berg. Thyatira derasa, in the woods behind the cemetery, Heidelberg. Mamestra 

 chrysozona, Heidelberg, on the other side of the Neekar. Acontia luctuosa, St. 

 Goarshausen. Hypena proboscidalis, Heidelberg. Thalera jimbrialis, St. Goars- 

 hausen. Jodis lactearia and thymiaria, St. Goarshausen. Aeidalia virgularia, 

 Heidelberg ; A. aversata, Heidelberg ; of this latter we took some remarkably fine 

 banded varieties. Abraxas adustata, St. Goarshausen. CaSemjOMsaria, Heidelberg. 

 Metrocampa margaritaria, Heidelberg. Epione advenaria, Heidelberg. Boarmia 

 roboraria, Heidelberg. These three latter species were common and very fine in 

 tlie woods at the back of the cemetery, which appear to be a fine collecting ground. 

 Malia Wauaria, St. Goarshausen. Ortholitha plumbaria, !St. Goarshausen. 

 Minoa murinata, St. Goarshausen. Scotosia vetulata and rhamnata, St. Goaishausen ; 

 the specimens of rhamnata were remarkably large and richly coloured compared 



