REV. A. MILES MOSS ON SWITZERLAND AND ITS BUTTERFLIES. 67 I 
The grass culms again were literally alive with Bines of several 
kinds, especially the brilliant L. dainon, which occurred in great 
abundance ; and I was able for the first time to secure the more 
sombrely-clad female of the species, which last year escaped my 
notice. The Blues also included L. corydon , dory /a*, icaru, s, alsus 
and acix, and the larva of some species. The Skippers were 
represented by H. lined, sylvanus, A. fages, S. malvce and alveux, 
and one specimen of H. sao on the border of a vineyard, about 
half a mile lower down. 
The Vanessas though not strongly represented were most of 
them seen in this district, including urticce, polychloro C-album , 
an odd specimen of to and probably at al ant a, hut no Camberwell 
Beauties did I see. C. phicomone was taken in company with 
hyate, also A. cratcegi, P. mpui and L. xinapix. 
Then amongst the Moths, I was fortunate enough in the same 
ground to come across a new species of Burnet, Z. camiolica, 
a gaudy little creature and locally plentiful. The other species of 
the genus were Z. fnfolii, filipenduhr and minos. Several larvae 
of dilforent orders were picked up here, including a couple of 
N. trepida off the oak, a small S. fi/itv found on my coat sleeve, 
and presumably shaken from the Lime tree, and finally a full 
grown caterpillar of the common Emperor Moth, S. rarpini, 
feeding on some common weed and looking quite out of place. 
I do not pretend to have exhausted the possible list of species 
which were to be found on this sunny hill-side — in fact I took or 
recognized at least some dozen others — but I must hasten on to 
speak of other occasions when the sun was good enough to show 
his face. 
I made expeditions from Vi liars on every point of the compass 
when the weather permitted and sometimes even when it did not, 
returning on one occasion drenched to the skin, much to the 
amusement of my unfeeling friends in the hotel who were sitting 
in the hall on my arrival engrossed with bridge and tea. 
Several times I revisited Solalex in the valley between the 
Biablerets and Argentines with the hope of procuring a row of 
Paniassiux delius, having taken a specimen here in 1902. But 
though I was evidently in the right district for the species, I only 
got two specimens, one perfect and the other too worn to set. 
There was plenty of its food plant ( Seduw aizoidex and telephium) 
