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long voyage home ; these were all doing \Yell when I left Switzerland 

 for England in January. When I returned here in the middle of 

 April, I found that hut a few were alive and Nourishing, the rest 

 having died. I shall not easily forget feeding them on August 20th ; 

 I sprang out of the train and gathered a few dandelion leaves growing 

 on the lines. The attention of some French veterans was attracted by 

 my strange conduct, and they approached with fixed bayonets to see 

 what I was up to. As they saw my handful of leaves they at once 

 concluded that I was going to make myself a salad, and were very 

 sympathetic. Three days later I fed them in a meadow near the station 

 of Amberieu, and, made lively by the sun, about 100 of them escaped 

 and gave me a line hunt. Fortunately, the train made a very long 

 halt there. 



Few butterflies other than those I have mentioned were taken at 

 Pajares. A single L. avion, a few Tantcna theop/irastNn, flying with 

 PobjoinmatHn boeticiia over a mixed barley and pea field close to the 

 -(■asdicKs heather patch, some P. apalhi on the slopes of a gorge, and a 

 single specimen on the heights, a sprinkling of C/ui/sop/ianus /lippotlm,', 

 single specimens of (ilaumpsip-he melanops, Mnsc/uoiiju'o proto, and 

 l^oirellia saa var. eitcrate, got into my net. (_'oe}u)ny)ii}iha anania was 

 to be found on all the hillsides. Kpiiicplw/e Jnrtina ab. hispidla was 

 abundant in all the meadows, and I took a few /'.'. tit/ionus and a single 

 K. paaiphar on the border of a copse. Uvbirola coiinnu was going over. 

 The nettles and thistles, there were large patches of both, were peopled 

 with io, iiiticoe, atalanta, and ((mini larviS. 



A few moths came to the light of our acetylene lamp in the pigsty, 

 and others were met with while in the field. I have set the follow- 

 ing : — Ortholitlia jdituibaria (dark), (>. biptinctaria, KnrranthiiK penniije- 

 laria var. c/inj!<itaria, Hejiialiis alticola, 11. castilanin;, Perinephcle 

 lanrealii., Acidalia nitidata, Larentia tuontanata, L. tjaliatu, L. dotaUi, 

 L. bilineata var. testaceolata, Phasiane jietraria, P. clathratd (dark), 

 (hujyia anroliiiibata var. (/nadarrainrnsia, Gjiop/tos asperaria and var. 

 pitijata, (t. itiiicidaria and var. ocliracearia and ab. (jrisearia, (J. pullata 

 and var. eimfertata, Kllopia prosapiaria, Xcnioria sp., Codonia sp., 

 Pliisia chri/Kitis ab. aitrea, I', i/ittta, P. (janitiui, Vilix ijlancatns, Anattia 

 nn/roc/iracearia, Anthrocera ncabiosae and ab. dirisa and var. orion, 

 T/ii/ris fenestrclla, MalacosoDia castrensis var., (J'hiistis ijuadya, Pri/o- 

 phila ahjae (dark var.), Ma))iestra dentina ab. latenai, Diantlioecia cinii- 

 bali, and 7). conipta var. i/alactina. The (jalactina is especially interest- 

 ing as, so far as I know, it has not been taken yet on the Continent of 

 Europe. At all events the authors do not give it as having been taken 

 anywhere on the mainland, its habitat being given as Sicily. 



The moths that some people arc still pleased to call micros I have 

 not yet had time to work through, but they were fairly plentiful on 

 the " maquis " of the hillsides round Pajares. The < rainhns that seemed 

 to be most abundant was ' '. uiytilellux. 



A further account of outwork in Spain I now leave to the able pen 

 of Mrs. Page, who joined us when we left the pigsties. 



