448 REV. A. MILES MOSS ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF SWITZERLAND. 
A generation of passe Mazarine Blues ( Lycaena acts ) seemed to 
have departed after the first big storm, but I was surprised to 
notice many species in excellent condition, notwithstanding the 
rain. Freshly-emerged specimens no doubt they were in many 
cases, but even acts turned up again quite fresh. 
Day after daj', morning and afternoon, I was employed in the 
same way, and much of the time very near the same place, rarely 
returning without a full bag, and I am bound to say the interest 
never once flagged. New species kept putting in an appearance, 
and scarce a day passed which did not afford me the indescribable 
pleasure of taking a thing for the first time — a fly that one had 
read of in books, and possibly seen in a museum collection, but 
which was now a living reality, and possessed of more than 
doubled interest. 
I must now wade through a list of species taken, some of them 
on the heights above Villars — Chamossaire, Perche, Col de la 
Croix, and the neighbourhood of the Diablerets — but mainly near 
the road between Villars and Gryon — Gryon being a village 
of delightful Swiss chalets, about three miles down the chemin 
de fer, in the direction of Bex. 
And first in the order of species comes our well-known 
Swallow-tail of the broads, but in Switzerland by no means 
confined to swamps. There he was, in company with the 
Red Admiral and Painted Lady, swirling over the dizzy precipice 
at the top of the Chamossaire mountain, an elevation of over 
7,000 feet. I took him again near Gryon, and in the pass between 
the Diablerets and Argentines, but was apparently too late in the 
season for his congener podalirius. In the same pass I took 
a solitary specimen of Parnassius delius, first cousin to the famous 
apollo. Then Aporia crataegi, the Black- Veined White, was 
everywhere, and in excellent condition. One specimen I bred 
from a pupa found belted upon a twig of Pyrus aria. I con- 
tented myself with merely spotting the common Whites, and did 
not notice any of the smoky-coloured variety of napi, which goes 
by the name of brynnite. A single specimen of Euchloe belia was 
netted near Gryon, and cardamin.es , the orange tip, appeared on 
several occasions. The Wood White, Leucophasia sinapis , turned 
up sparingly, and I dare say would have been common if worked 
for. 
