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THREE WEEKS’ HOLIDAY AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES 
OF SWITZERLAND -July 5tii to 30th, 1902. 
By the Rev. A. Miles Moss, M.A. 
Read 30th September , 1902. 
To attempt to give an account of the Butterflies of Switzerland 
after but a brief three weeks’ holiday in that gorgeous country, so 
replete with its fauna and flora in endless variety, is rather more 
than bordering on presumption. Those three weeks, however, were 
to me weeks of hard labour in the Entomological sense, and of close 
and careful observation ; and I think I may fairly add, by no means 
unattended with success. 
It is on this account that I have with great pleasure responded 
to' the Secretary’s request, and have brought here this evening 
for your inspection four cabinet drawers containing my captures. 
I should like to say at once that they of course represent but the 
merest fraction of those seen, and, for one cause or another, not 
taken. 
Confining oneself to the Butterflies proper, and for the present, 
at any rate, excluding the Moths, they will be found to contain 
some 68 species. I observed, in more or less abundance, some 
14 others which I had no special desire to take; and there is little 
doubt that at different times and places several other species whose 
identity I cannot swear to were seen. 
Here, in England, we have barely 60 species ; Switzerland, 
I believe, possesses more than 170; so that I regard my net total 
of 82 for I uly as satisfactory and encouraging. 
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