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this occurred in both sexes, 7.¢., five-spot males with six-spot females, 
and six-spot males with five-spot females. We certainly incline to look 
on these six-spotted examples as the result of a cross between A. 
lonieerae and A. transalpina, which was not uncommon on the same 
eround, although we have no proof of the supposition. A.~carniolica 
was over, and A. achilleae but rarely seen. The absence of A. exulans 
on all the higher slopes that we explored was very unexpected. 
But the high alps were much more to our taste, and so far as we 
explored them we had no cause to complain of a single day’s sport. 
Everywhere there was an abundance of lepidoptera, and the only 
difficulty that occurred was in the rapid selection of what one wanted 
as one covered the ground, and one frequently felt that one was 
spending insufficient time in the most promising spots to find out 
what really was there. Two localities in particular we would suggest 
as being exceptionally good. One of these is the ascent to the Pointe 
de la Lauze, the other of the Créte de Reychasse. The Pointe de la 
Lauze is reached by means of a zig-zag course through a great larch 
forest. Directly opposite the Grand Hotel a path leads to a 
little bridge crossing the Guil, and once over the bridge one finds one- 
self at once on the zig-zags that lead direct to the peaks above. The 
whole fauna of the forest gives one the impression at first blush of 
being purely subalpine—Cleoye ne lutearia, Acidalia flaveolaria, Larentia 
verbena ta, Sciaphila argentana, and other characteristic common subalpine 
species fly out at every step, and every flower-head holds Anthrocera 
lonicerae var. major, A. transalpina, Erebia euryale, Parnassius apollo, 
Gnophos obfuscata and similar species, whilst Argynnis niobe and A. 
aglaia meet one everywhere. But when one reaches an opening—and 
the openings in a larch forest lke this form a veritable paradise for 
the lepidopterist—one is less sure of the distinct alpine fauna, 
and is astonished at the mixture to be found. Brenthis pales, Colias 
phicomone, CC. palaeno, Erebia curyale, E. tyndarus, EH. epiphron, 
Chrysophanus hippothoe var. eurybia, Plebeitus argus, Polyommatus 
orbitulus, P. eros, P. eumedon, Melitaea parthenie, Coenonympha iphis, 
Argynnis niobe, A. aglaia, &c., meet one at every turn, and Papilio 
machaon, as usual, seeks the high knolls, but mixed with these more 
or less subalpine species one sees a brilhant Gonepteryx rhamni flying 
across the clearing, or Colias hyale skimming along, together with an 
abundance of Apori ta crataegi, Pieris rapae, P. napi, Chrysophanus 
virgaureac, Polyommatus astrarche, P. corydon, P. hylas, P. damon, 
Nomiades semiargus, Cupido minima, Melitaea didyma, M. phoebe, 
Brenthis amathusia, Argynnis lathonia, Hrebia neoridas, Satyrus actaea, 
Pararge maera, Epinephele lycaon, Syrichthus alveus, Thymelicus lineola, 
Pamphila comma, and probably many other species unnoted. These 
species at least were in all the large clearings in the forest, and the 
myriads of Larentia caesiata and Cidaria populata disturbed as we walked 
along were more than bewildering, and quite prevented one picking 
out the apparently rarer Cidaria immanata, afew of which were obtained 
by promiscuous waving among a crowd of startled moths, Hypsipetes 
sordidata also being occasionally netted in this haphazard way. Some- 
thing useful occurs at almost every step, and here and there the wealth 
of wild flowers is delightful, but presently one strikes the path that 
the cows take to the pastures every morning, the larches begin to thin 
out, the alpine rohododendron, with many bunches of its gay blossom 
