676 REV. A. MILES MOSS ON SWITZERLAND AND ITS BUTTERFLIES. 
a couple of A. dia. It was noteworthy that these, in company 
with many others of different genera, including the Whites, 
Clouded Yellows, Blues and Skippers, showed no partiality for 
lime juice and absolutely ignored the seductive bloom, preferring 
the commoner hay flowers. 
The tree, however, was an irresistible attraction to the great 
Satyrus hermione, a Butterfly in colour and markings like our 
common Grayling, but much more intense and almost twice the 
size. This again was a new species to me, and it was a truly 
magnificent sight to behold over a score of these glorious creatures 
careering round the branches, and ever and anon settling on some 
choice spray. Several times I netted three or four at one stroke, 
only to let them go again, for I could afford in this instance to 
be fastidious, and only took a series of specimens in perfect 
condition for the cabinet. Others of the same order visited 
the tree, including Satyms ianira, Pararge moera, and P. achine , 
a delicately fashioned Kinglet which was new to me, and was 
generally to be taken flitting gently along the border of the 
hazel wood and always seeking the shade of branches. 
Another fresh find was Satyms cordula, a splendid black 
Butterfly like a very large Meadow Brown, the male, however, 
being considerably darker. This species was taken in plenty 
in this one district, but always amongst the grass, never on the 
tree. 
Before leaving the Lime tree, I must not forget to mention the 
lively brown Hairstreak which frequented it in numbers. I took 
it at first for L. pruni, but find now that it is the allied species 
ilicis. Its congener L. quercus also was present, but was commoner 
on the boughs of several small oak ti’ees which grew close at hand. 
On the same bank I caught a specimen of the famed Parnassius 
apollo, the first I had seen near Villars. I captured also a fine 
specimen of the common Swallow-tail, and immediately afterwards 
discovered a full fed larva of the same species on a plant of 
Angelica sylvestris. I had the same experience with G. rhamni, 
seeing the Butterfly and soon after finding a full grown larva on 
buckthorn. Erebia melampus , C. pamphilus and ipliis, E. hyper - 
anthus and M. galatea were common everywhere ; so also was 
C. hyale, the pale clouded yellow, and I caught sight of an odd 
specimen of C. edusa. 
