148 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Photographs held at the rooms of the Eoyal Photographic Society 

 in February last. 



Our trip was divided into two portions — from the 7th to loth 

 May at Hyeres, from which short excursions were made by road 

 or rail to Carqueiranne to the west and Le Lavandou to the 

 east ; from the 17th to the 29th May at La Sainte Baume, a 

 locality of which an excellent account from a butterfly-hunter's 

 point of view by the late Eev. F. E. Lowe has already appeared in 

 our pages ('Entom.' vol. xlvii, 1914, pp. 14-20, 60-63). Mr. Main 

 had previously visited this locality in July, 1920, and an account 

 supplementary to Mr. Lowe's is given by Mr. Bethune Baker, 

 who was there at the same time, in 'Ent. Record,' 1921, pp. 101- 

 105. This valley is about 2000 ft. above sea- level, and at the 

 time of our visit the insects as well as the plants were found to' 

 be about three weeks later than the same species in the 

 neighbourhood of Plyeres. 



Though collecting was not our prime object, and was not 

 indeed attempted with any degree of thoroughness, yet a very fair 

 bag was secured. As regards Rhopalocera, for example, series 

 were not collected — merely a few samples of the different species 

 noted. Although our stay was five weeks earlier than that of 

 Mr. Lowe, and only half as long, the number of species we secured 

 was exactly half the number recorded by him, viz. 37 compared 

 with 74 : Twenty-three of those found at Ste Baume were the same 

 as noted by him, and the following mostly spring species were found 

 in addition to those noted by either Mr. Lowe or Mr. Bethune 

 Baker : Thais medicicaste, Euchloe tagis, E. cardamines, E. 

 euphenoides, Leptidea duponcheli, Melitaea aurinia, Nemeobius 

 lucina, Everes argiades f. coretas, Lycaena sebrvs, L. ci/llarus, L. 

 melanops, Nisoniades tages, and Hesperia sidae (for these 

 identifications I am indebted to Mr. Biley). 



By a mere accident a method of sending these home was 

 discovered that will perhaps repay further trial. The butterflies 

 were papered in the usual way, ordinary newspaper being used, 

 and the envelopes packed in tin boxes which had been moistened 

 with glacial acetic acid, and, owing to corrosion, were useless for 

 the living insects for which they were intended. For some weeks 

 the butterflies remained limp and in perfect conditioner setting, 

 and showed no tendency to develop mould. 



Of insects of other orders the following are perhaps of 

 interest, the letters (H.) and (S.B.) after the name signifying 

 Hyeres and Ste Baume respectively. 



Orthoptera. 



FORFICULIDiE. 



Anisolabis moesta, Gene (S.B.). 

 Forficida decipiens (H.). 



,, pubescens, Gene (H.). 



