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themselves Avere ; for us many an innocent trout gave up its little life, 

 for us were slain fatted lambs — we were even invited to view the 

 slaying — for us came beef from afar, for us one of our dear neighbours 

 uttered its last squeal, for us many and mysterious vegetables were 

 culled ; fruit indeed, was very rare, but after each meal we were 

 regaled with black coffee and our hosts pet liqueur ^ — -and for 

 this we were expected to pay a sum equivalent to 4s. a day. It was 

 hardly ruinous. Our host fed — -I cannot say ate — with us, his wife 

 and daughters served us with the viands that themselves had erst 

 prepared. The fair daughters of the house did our washing and 

 deemed the labour to be one of pure love; why not? water is plentiful 

 and women's work too cheap to be taken into consideration ! The 

 air was glorious, the vieAV fine — only— a very big only — we were too 

 late for fialarica — much too late, as not even one ragged specimen was 

 taken ! Oh reader, follow our example, learn the lingo in your leisure 

 moments, master the host of irregular verbs and the sulajunctive of 

 the regular verb with its three imperfects and its future and go to 

 Pajares, but go there at least a fortnight earlier than we did ! The 

 only Erebias we took at Pajares were a few worn eriafi, some fresh 

 ntyi/nc and a half-a-dozen very fine cjiijiJiron var. j>yrenaica, much 

 larger than those fi-om the Pyrenees. 



At Pajares we found few other butterflies worthy of note except L. 

 an/IIS var. catiaiciis, which we were destined to find more abundantly 

 at Brafiuelas. Casaicua $ varies principall}^ in size, the largest of a 

 series of 500 which I have, has an expanse of 31imm., and the smallest 

 rather less than 20mm., the orange-peacock spots on upperside of hind- 

 wings varying in number from five to zero, about 50 per cent, of mine 

 have these orange spots, but this is far too large a proportion, as I 

 naturally selected my specimens. The 5 varies more than the $ in 

 size, breadth of orange and of white bands, and in the eye-spots of 

 undersides. Among my underside abs. are retiosatfittata, retrojnncta, 

 sagittata, costa-jnneta, disvoelongata, and iDiijiiincta. I believe that the 

 first mentioned has not yet been noted among the argus, though fairly 

 common in other " blues," and of the last mentioned a single specimen is 

 cited by Tutt as an extreme rarity which owes its name to Mousley. 

 Of unipuncta I have no less than 26 specimens, seven of which are S 

 and nineteen $ . An extreme form of Mousley's butterfly is one 

 having not one, but two basal eyespots ; of this I find two specimens, 

 one J and one 5 , in my series, and propose for them the Courvoisier 

 name bipuncta (nov. ab.). The orange bands of the uppersides are 

 sometimes very broad and sometimes disappear ; generally speaking 

 the larger the butterfly, the broader the bands. The casaictoi 

 taken at Pajares are generally smaller than those from Brafiuelas ; it 

 is, however, vain to break casaicus up, as Tutt does, into several forms, 

 butterflies of extreme sizes and breadths of band being found flying 

 together. On the heather on which we found this pretty insect 1 kIso 

 had the good fortune to take two splendidly black-spotted specimens 

 of P. napi 2 , one of 50mm. and the other, a napella, of 28mm. wing 

 expanse ; the great black spots extend to the margin of the wing. 

 Here, too, I boxed two fresh specimens of Arctia fanciata, one <? and 

 one 5 ; the latter laid a large number of eggs, which hatched out 

 before I left Spain and were fed on all kinds of food during a very 



