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Fritillaries, all previously mentioned, and a dozen Black Veined 
Whites, netted at one stroke as they congregated to sip from 
a puddle at the roadside. 
One realised with what enthusiasm such a record capture as this 
would be received here in England — twelve cratcegi at one blow’ — 
but as this was not England they w’ere promptly released. 
About 3 p.m. on the same day, 1 spotted a specimen of the 
scarce Swallow Tail, Papilio podalirius, the first I had seen, and 
caught it. it was indeed a straggler in tattered condition, but 
I retained it as a long-looked-for and welcome addition. May 
and June are its months, and 1 believe it is then by no means 
uncommon. 
1 missod the lie of the country on my home journey, and 
instead of making direct for the Lac des Chavonnes I added some 
eight or ten miles to my walk, which could well have been spared ; 
and when eventually 1 reached the little wooden restaurant by 
the lake it was seven o’clock, and the prospect of no dinner after 
the day’s toil caused my movements for the next three-quarters of 
an hour to be unpleasantly rapid. 
Another day took me down to the Rhone valley, where the 
great swollen river bore testimony to the abundance of rain in the 
hills, from which 1 have reason to believe the valley itself was on 
many occasions exempt ; for from out of the mists and rain-clouds 
of Villars we used to see the sun shining on the corn-fields below. 
For a mile or two 1 walked along the bank of the river, which 
like some living monster enchanted me, so swift and strong was 
the current and yet so strangely silent, bearing down from the glacial 
regions tons upon tons of gravel and grey mud in suspension. 
The chief Butterflies here noted were A. papliia and the other 
common Fritillaries, M. galatim and E. hyperanthus , all previously 
observed. 
1 cannot omit the mention of several other species of interest 
taken for the most part on the roadside, or on the meadow lands 
close to my hotel. A. cratcegi was as plentiful as ever, and this 
year I was in time to procure some backward larvae on small 
Mountain Ash trees, well nigh stripped of their leaves by a colony 
of this gregarious species. C. hycde too was very common, and 
was in rather better condition than those of July, 1902. The 
common Whites with L. sinapis and E, cardamines were of 
