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Zeller reports (Ent. Mo. Mag., vi., p. 11) how, during the first year 

 of his residence at Meseritz, he saw no A. coridon, and only a few 

 plants of Coronilla varia, but, as the northern roadway became older, 

 the plant became more frequent, and, in 1868, he, for the first time, 

 saw a few A. coridon, which, no doubt, had followed the spread of the 

 foodplant. Thoughts of its habitats on the continent call to mind 

 some of the most delightful spots in Europe — the blue waters of the 

 Mediterranean Sea as at Hyeres, Ste. Maxime, etc. ; the wide upland 

 tableland of Iberia ; magnificent forests like that of Fontainebleau ; 

 sparkling streams like those of the Trafoi-bach, the Saas and Visp, 

 the Arolla, the Ticino, the Pellice, and the Dora ; mighty glaciers and 

 snow-clad peaks as at Chamonix, Arolla, Zermatt, and the Eosegthal; 

 the highest passes, as the Col du Galibier, the Stelvio, etc. ; gloomy 

 gorges like the Via Mala ; rocky pinnaclesas at Cortina di Ampezzo, 

 the Mendelstrasse, and the Eggenthal; sun-baked wastes as at Botzen 

 and Digne ; beautiful lakes as on the Gresy Hills, Chavoire, the Lac 

 d' Alios, Bregenz, Stresa, Bellagio, etc., for the species occurs from the 

 sea-level to far above the forest zone, on the topmost alpine pastures, 

 indeed, one's mind travels over almost all the choice wild places that 

 millions travel thousands of miles merely to see. How one recalls 

 them all — the flowery slopes near Gex, where A. coridon abounds with 

 Aricia astrarche, Melitaea parthenie, Knodia dry as, Erebia aetliiops, and 

 many other species in July ; the tangled thicket at the foot of the 

 Grand Saleve, beyond Veyrier, where, among the long grass and tall 

 flowers of the bushy slope, at the foot of the woods, this species 

 abounds with a host of other interesting species ; in the fields, and on 

 the waste places among the vineyards, at the foot of the Gresy hills, 

 flying with Poly o mm at us icarus, P. hylas, Aricia astrarche, Agriades thetis, 

 etc., as well as on the well-known strip by the poplar trees near the top 

 of the hills, where assemble hosts of almost every species that haunts 

 the neighbourhood, and almost as abundant on the slopes of Chavoire 

 just above the waters of the beautiful Lac d'Annecy ; swarming at 

 Digne in early August, especially in the weedy fields beyond the Baths, 

 where an . abundance of blossoming flowers attracts also Agriades 

 thetis, Polyommatus meleager, P. hylas, P. icarus, Melitaea deione, 

 M. cinxia, Epinephele lycaon, Hipparc/iia arethusa, Erebia neoridas, etc., 

 whilst it also collects in little flocks on the black mud of the bed of 

 the Eaux-Chaudes, where Plebeius argyrognomon, Polyommatus icarus, 

 Aricia astrarche, and Scolitantides baton are its chief supporters. 

 It was very abundant also in a flowery meadow some distance above 

 Alios, on the road to the Lac d'Allos, where it occurred with Polyom- 

 matus icarus, Loweia gordius, Klugia sju'ni, Melitaea didyma, Melanargia 

 galathea, Qonepteryx rhamni, Colias edusa, C. hyale, etc., as well as at 

 a place considerably higher, where a spring of clearest water, sur- 

 rounded by tall flowering heads of catmint, was most attractive to this 

 species as well as to Polyommatus eros, Plebeius argyrognomon, Heodes 

 virgaureae, Coenonympha iphis, etc., whilst, on the long heath-like 

 moorland slopes, still farther up towards the lake, it was again exceed- 

 ingly abundant, accompanied by Hirsutina damon, (Jupido sebrus, 

 Aricia astrarche, Cyaniris scmiargus, Poli/ommatus eros. and Plebeius 

 argyrognomon, appearing again on the very margin of the Lac d'Allos 

 itself. Similarly above Larche, it occurred on all the slopes around to 

 a height of 0000ft. -7000ft., whilst above Abries ii roaches quite as high 



