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there on May 1st and remained till the 18th. We took large numbers of moths, 

 many very rare, among others the true Metapoceras codeti Oberthiir, also one 

 solitary Teracolus rwiirm, and on the Djebel Mekter Cigaritis allardi and Zygaena 

 marcouna. We then went to Saida, which was not very fruitful, and on May '23rd 

 we went to Hammam R'ihra for a week ; where among a lot of good things 

 we caught two fine Sphinx pinastri. 



In 1914 we arrived early in March at Alger, and proceeding to Biskra, 

 stayed there a month, getting some very welcome additions to the collection. 

 On April 8th Dr. Hartert and Carl HUgert set out for the Oued N9a, and Dr. 

 Jordan and I proceeded to join Dr. Nissen at Constantine, whence we went to 

 Souk Ahras in the extreme east of Algeria. We were considerablj' disappointed 

 here, for we found we had come at least three or four weeks too early. However, 

 we had one good haul, for we found Zygaena zuleika simply swarming in the old 

 Arab giaveyard above the town. In the previous five years I had only taken 

 four specimens of this species, viz. 1 at Constantine in 1908, 2 at Hammam R'ihra, 

 and 1 in 1913 in Mrs. Beresford's garden in Mustapha Superior. We went from 

 Souk Ahras to Tebessa after about ten days, but here there was absolutely 

 nothing to be found, so after three or four days we went back to Hammam 

 Meskoutine, where we stayed, and Dr. Hartert and HUgert rejoined us there, 

 and we finally reached home early in June. Dr. Hartert collected a nice series 

 of lepidoptera both on the Oued Nfa and on the way back, the best things 

 being a pair of the very rare noctuid Anydrophila sahoiirodi (Lucas), which had 

 hitherto been known only from the unique type from Zarcime in Tunisia. I 

 have only given above the bare ovitline of our journeys in Algeria ; but those 

 of my readers who want further details I must refer to Novitates Zoologicae, 

 vol. xviii. pp. 456-492 (1912), vol. xx. pp. 1-27 (1913) ; vol. xxi. pp. 180-186 

 (1914), and vol. xxii. pp. 61-66 (1915). 



The reader will find enumerated among the specimens a series collected by 

 Herr Geyr von Schwcppenburg on a journey to the Hoggar Mountains. Herr 

 Geyr went with Herr Paul Spatz, and the journey was made from Biskra to 

 Ideles via Touggourt, Ouargla, Ain-Ta'iba and Timassinin ; the full list will be 

 foimd in the Antuils ami Magazine of Natural History (8), xvi. pp. 247, etc. (1915). 

 For those who have not visited Algeria, I should like to say that it is 

 divided into tliree faunal regions, first the " Coastal or Tell " which lies north 

 of the northern range of the Atlas Mountains ; second, the " Hauts Plateaux," 

 which consist of the high steppe-like country mostly some 900-1,100 metres 

 above sea-level and is situated between the northern and southern chains of 

 the Atlas ; and third, the " Saharan or Desert region," which comprises all the 

 country south of the second Atlas chain as far as the end of the Hoggar Moun- 

 tains, i.e. about halfway between Ideles and Air. The northern or Tell Atlas 

 has more or less the same fauna as the Coastal Plain, but its southern slopes 

 agree more with the Hauts Plateaux ; the Southern or Saharan Atlas has 

 principally the fauna of the Hauts Plateaux. In Tunisia and the most eastern 

 part of Algeria, owing to the mountains running up closer to the sea, the 

 " Hauts Plateaux " region is less defined and runs more into the other two. 

 In Morocco we know too little about the natural history of the country, 

 except round Tangier and along the coast, i.e. Mazagan and Mogador, to say 

 if these threefold faunal divisions are there well defined or not. Of the 

 localities mentioned in the lists, Alger and the Foret de Bainen are on the 



