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the coast cliffs, while Hawes particularly notes its occurrence in marshy 

 spots in St. Brelade's Bay, Jersey. Its habitats in the Alpine regions 

 of France, Italy, Austria, South Germany and Switzerland are similar 

 throughout, though of the most varied description. We have frequently 

 taken it at moist places on the roads and pathways, sometimes sparingly 

 and sometimes in abundance. It occurred, for instance, in hundreds 

 about 3,000ft. above Bourg d'Oisans at all the little runnels that 

 crossed the pathway, in company with Agriades coridon ; at the little 

 puddles on the footpath between the village of Evolene and the river ; 

 on damp patches on a path on the Ofen Pass, with Plebeius argus 

 (aegon) var. killiasi, Cyaniris semiargus, Hirsutina dam on, Agriades 

 coridon, A. thetis, Polyommatus eros and Aricia donzelii; at a spring 

 above Lavin with Plebeius argus, P. argyrognomon, Vacciniina optUete, 

 Hirsutina dam on, Cyaniris semiargus, Agriades coridon, and Erebia 

 aethiops ; we found a few at the little runnels in the Dischmathal, 

 while it swarmed at the paddles and runnels on the waste ground just 

 above Abries, wdth Hirsutina dam on, Polyommatus escheri, P.hylas,&xid. 

 Plebeius argus ; and we met with it again in a similar spot on the 

 flats half-way between Bobbie and the Pelliee Falls, with Agriades 

 coridon, Polyommatus escheri, P. hylas, P. icarus, and occasional P. 

 eros and Hirsutina damon, and in many other like situations. We 

 have taken it also, among other places, on waste lands on the foot hills 

 of the Jura near the lake of Geneva ; at the edge of the pinew T ood 

 below the Kurhaus at Arolla ; on the outskirts of another pinewood at 

 Brugnasco, at 4,500ft., where it flew with Plebeius aegon, Parnassius 

 a polio, Leptosia sinapis, Brenthis amathusia, Argynnis aglaia, A. niobe, 

 Erebia goante and Melanargia galathea ; in flowery hollows below 

 Lavancher, and sparingly on flowery slopes at le Lautaret, and 

 also between Alios and the Lac d' Alios, at nearly 7,000ft., on 

 a delightful stretch of a heath-like or moorland character. 

 Amongst other habitats in Switzerland we may mention that 

 Wheeler records it from the roadside between Sion and Vex, 

 and also sitting on the grass heads, on a dull day, by the side of 

 the watercourse above Faido ; Tetley found it on the railway banks at 

 Sion in company with Plebeius argus, P. argyronomon, Celastrina 

 argiolus, Everes alcetas, and Melitaea aurelia ; whilst Mrs. Page reports it 

 from the banks of the Naviganza at Zinal, and Sheldon from the 

 flowery meadows below the village of Simplon. It occurs also in the 

 Pyrenees, and Standen speaks of it in a hot corner about a mile from 

 Vernet along the road to Castell, — " a hollow bend of the road, shel- 

 tered from any breeze that might be stirring," where he found it with 

 a crowd of other species. Among its Spanish haunts a few may be 

 noted. At Gibraltar Becher reports that it occurs on the rock itself, 

 while Sheldon records it from Algeciras as occurring in the cork woods, 

 and Lang from Andalusia in a small forest of gigantic umbrella-pines. 

 Chapman took it "on the upper Jucar stream near Tragacete, in patches 

 which had gone for a year or two out of cultivation, amidst thousands 

 of specimens of many species." Sheldon (Ent. Bee, xviii., p. 58) 

 gives a most inspiring account of another of its haunts, too long, how- 

 ever, for quotation, — a gorge about a mile east of La Granja, where 

 this species was accompanied on July 19th by the whole fauna of the 

 neighbourhood, including Dryas pandora, D. paphia var. immaculata, 



