326 THE ENTGUGTOCTETE RECORD. 
July. It is present all over the district ; I took one excellent one at 
Orta, it is abundant in the Val Anzasca and Val Strona, and, on the 
Simplon route, I have found it all the way from below Crevola, directly 
the road begins to rise from the plain, up to Varzo. It very rarely, 
however, flies over the roads as do other blues, and never, that I observed, 
suns itself on the patches of moisture with Nomiades semiargus and the 
rest. To obtain it, it is necessary to ascend to the little flowery plat- 
forms which always line the sides of the rocks above the carriage way. 
P. baton, one only of this little beauty was obtained at Orta, near the rail- 
way. On this sameground P. bellargus was plentiful (the males generally 
with well-marked black dots on upper side of underwings, not so usual 
in Rhone valley) the female—with a few ab. ceronws—was quite as com- 
mon as the male, Plebeius aegon, and later P. argus, the latter having 
remarkably dark undersides, and large metallic spots, many of the 
females being specially noticeable. The males of P. aegon, in early 
May, on the Sacro Monte, were very fine, rich in colour, very deeply 
bordered with black, throwing into bold relief the white fringe—and, on 
the underside, bases well powdered with blue—the orange band of the 
hindwings broad and brilliant, but never continued more faintly on the 
primaries as in most specimens of P. argus, its place on the upper 
wing (underside) being taken by a smoky suffusion. VP. astrarche was 
common and with very pronounced red borders not the allous-like 
form so common in Switzerland. Noméades cyllarus was scarce, and 
in fine condition at Orta during the first few days of our stay—in all I 
took four males and three females, and one of the latter in Val Strona— 
Polyommatus icarus showed no pronounced peculiarity, unless it was 
that it was not obtrusively common, the females were generally of the 
brown tone with very strongly defined red bands on both wings, some- 
times well powdered with blue at the base, but this colour did not spread 
over the whole surface, as is generally the case here in Guernsey, 
especially in the autumn brood, after the manner of P. ab. ceronus. 
Nomiades senvargus was not so common, as it probably would be later in 
the season, but was large and very fine in colour. P. corydon was to be 
taken at Crevola on June 6th, whilst Cyaniris argiolus was common all 
round, and Cupido minima at Varallo and Orta. Among the coppers, 
we had abundance of Uhr ysophanus dorilis—of the very finest—the 
females very yellow and clear in markings and colouring above and below, 
so different from my Aigle specimens “that I thought I had got some- 
thing new. C. phlaeas was present in fair numbers but in the 
commonest forms, although occasionally I tookamagnificent female with 
a great increase of the caudation of ve hindwings, and much suffused 
with black, approaching var. elews. C. aletphron var. gordius was just 
appearing as we left, in the Strona Valley. With the Theclids I had 
no luck, only very fine specimens of Callophrys rubi appearing. Most 
of these had the white spots of the underside very slightly represented. 
Erycemipes.—Nemeobius lucina, the size and rich colouring of some 
specimens obtained at Pettenasco, on June 5th, surpass anything in my 
experience of the species, the largest being just one and a half inches 
across. 
PapiniontpEes.— Papilio podalirius was very ragged on our arrival, 
as also P. achaon, of the latter a new brood began to appear at the 
beginning of June, but not var. awrantiaca, of which I had vainly 
dreamed! Parnassius apollo appeared of course in due season, and P. 
