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of eurycde. What the others are I cannot at present say for 
certain. I have also omitted another Villars Blue, which is nearly 
black on the upper surface, and which I cannot yet identify. 
Caenonympha ipliis, and I think C. satyrion, were taken in 
small numbers, and the ever abundant pamphilus left to enjoy 
freedom. On turning to the last order of the Butterflies, the 
Hesperidae, I am again in trouble. There was no doubt about the 
presence of Hesperia sylvanus, and tinea, and Nisuniades tages, 
and I think I am safe in labelling one odd specimen Spilothyrus 
altliae ; but four others in the genus Syricthus, all more or less 
like one another, and like Mr. Lung’s excellent figures in his work 
on tho European Butterflies, are probably all different species, and 
defy my poor attempts at nomenclature. 1 wish I had had time 
to collect more, for there were plenty on the wing. 
And now I must hurry on, and quickly enumerate the additional 
species which my two days’ hunting about Zermatt afforded. 
First comes the grand Pamassius apollo, perhaps the most 
characteristic of Swiss Butterflies. I feared that I should have to 
go home without it, but was saved at the eleventh hour by securing 
six or eight good specimens in the Yisp valley below Zermatt. 
On the Riffel Alp I noticed A. pales again in some abundance, and 
higher up, in fact at the top of the Gornergrat, I took a good 
specimen of Pieris c alii dice, and rejected several others that were 
too much worn. A’o P. daplidice were seen. On returning by 
a short cut to the Findeln Glacier Hotel where I was staying, 
I took Erebia tyndarus and manto, one specimen of Colias palaeno 
in company with pliicomone, and three specimens of the little 
Alpine Blue, Lycaena orbitultis. Had there been time I should 
have taken more, but its condition was distinctly shabby. Some 
very fresh specimens of L. acis were again noticed flitting over 
puddles in the road. A lovely fresh specimen of Melitaea phoebe 
was netted on the way down to Zermatt, and two specimens 
of a neat little fritillary, which I hope I am right in designating 
M. parthenii, also a small series of the Skipper, Hesperia comma. 
As the sun set behind the Matterhorn I found the grass blades 
and scrubby Juniper bushes on the banks of the Yisp literally 
covered with a small species of Blue, which I at once put down as 
aegon, and only took a couple from the thousands which I saw. 
