674 REV. A. MILES MOSS ON SWITZERLAND AND ITS BUTTERFLIES. 
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SWITZERLAND AND ITS BUTTERFLIES. 
June 20th — July 27th, 1903. 
By the Rev. A. Miles Moss, M.A. 
Read 28 rd Febmary, 190 If.. 
Once again am I honoured by the Secretary’s request for a paper 
on my Entomological observations in Switzerland during my last 
year’s summer holiday, spent as before at Yillars-sur-Ollon, where 
I held the chaplaincy for some six Sundays in June and July. 
Bad weather has for too long been the order of the day, and the 
region of the Rhone valley during the summer of 1903 was no 
exception in this matter. It was wet on my arrival at Villars, and 
it rained the whole of the next week without intermission. It 
rained at intervals of two or three days in every week which 
followed; July concluding in the same unsatisfactory manner as 
June, with a week wet throughout. 
This was a decided damper on one’s entomological projects ; but 
all things considered I really had a very pleasant time, made 
several long day excursions and met with fair success in the 
matter of Lepidoptera. 
Being a fortnight earlier than in the previous year I had hoped 
to forestall the haymakers and turn up several species hitherto 
unnoticed ; but I had forgotten to reckon with the elements. 
True, I added largely to my list of 1902, but most of the new 
species were noted later on in July. In fact the 10th and 13th 
of that month were record days, eclipsing any occasion in the 
previous year in the number of species observed and in the 
general abundance of Butterflies in the particular locality under 
inspection. This was the hill slope below Gryon in the direction 
