REV. A. MILES MOSS ON SWITZERLAND AND ITS BUTTERFLIES. 675 
of Bex, a district which I had formerly overlooked, and known as 
the Bois du Sublin. No less than forty-six species of Butterflies 
did I detect hero ; and including the Moths and chance larvae 
observed my list totalled at least sixty-four species. 
Beetles and Flies of every description were in great abundance 
and the ground was alive with the perpetual chirrup of the 
Grasshopper and Cricket. 
A certain Lime tree in full flower, situated on a provokingly 
steep grassy bank, was the great attraction to many Butterflies and 
its fragrance drew from far and near. It was hot and fatiguing 
work, this Lime-blossom hunting, for an excited plunge with the 
net after some coveted beauty generally entailed the loss of one’s 
balance and a precipitate rush into a thicket of hazel at the 
bottom of the hank. This disturbance sometimes acted beneficially 
for it produced a kind of general post in the Lime, the greater 
portion of which was altogether out of my reach ; and when the 
momentary panic, which had filled the air with a thousand wings 
of every form and colour, had subsided, the feast was resumed on 
a more accessible bough. 
There was only one much coveted specimen of Limenitis populi 
which defeated all attempts at capture, and after soaring round the 
top of the tree like our well-known Purple Emperor it flew away. 
This grand species is of frequent occurrence in the district, and 
I was singularly unfortunate in not being able this year to procure 
one specimen, good, bad, or indifferent. To aid to my annoyance 
it was, if one may trust their description, always the Butterfly my 
friends at the hotel had seen while I was out, and had tried in 
vain to capture. 
Let me enumerate some of the visitants at the Lime-blossom. 
There were populCs two congeners, the White Admirals, L. sibylla, 
somewhat worn in appearance, and the still more beautiful and 
newly emerged L. Camilla, with its snowy-white design upon 
a background of the most intense blue-black. Then amongst the 
Fritillaries four species were abundant, A. paphia, a/lippe, aglaia 
and niobe. raphia, the silver-washed fritillary, seldom came 
within reach, so that I only managed to net three or four 
specimens. Four other species turned up in the same locality, 
M. cinxia and atlialia, a lovely series of the richly-toned didyma, 
which was plentiful among the grass and quite new to me, and 
