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here. I had as many as six in iny net at a time. In spite of its quick 

 tiip;ht this insect is easily taken. It is exceedingly local but very 

 abundant where it occurs. I found a second locality a few days later 

 where it was almost equally abundant. At the beginning of August 

 arteon was in fine fresh condition ; it very soon gets worn, and really 

 good cabinet specimens require to be taken within a day or so of 

 emergence. The "blues" were common in certain spots, /'. irarim 

 being by far the most abundant. A curious ab. of this species was 

 taken on the 18th ; the spots were normal on the left wings, but were 

 altogether missing on the uppcrside of the right wings, on the under- 

 side the spots were quite normal in the left wing, but were streaked to 

 a marked degree on the right wings, and especially so in the forewing. 

 The specimen was a ? in fair condition. Pleheiiis anjuH was fairly 

 common. A good many Aijiiades cnridou were netted in the hopes of 

 ab. fou'lcri, but without success, although a few minor varieties were 

 taken. A single J Ji/riades t/tet is {adonis / was netted on the 18th, 

 the only example noticed, and one or two very worn Ciipido mini ma 

 were seen on the 14th. Other butterflies noticed at Swanage were 

 Pararfje Dictfaera, J-'pincpfiele tit/ioniis, Melanari/ia i/alatca, Sati/ras 

 seiiiele (common), Vanessa ia, Aijlais iirtirae, Pyrameis cardiii and /'. 

 atalanta, Cocnonj/ntiiha itainplitliis and Hioiiicia p/tlaeas. Amongst the 

 moths (inojihns olisnirata fairly commonly on bare chalky patches, a 

 few Aspilati's (/ilraria were beaten out of rough herbage, Pi/ransta 

 piirpiiralis was verj' common, with other small fry, amongst the short 

 herbage on top of the cliffs. 



We returned back to Abertillery on August 15th, bringing home 

 about 600 insects, which kept me busy setting for a week or two. 

 Since August I have been unable to do any collecting. Throughout 

 September Kudoria {Scoparia) an(jnstca occurred at light m extra- 

 ordinary numbers, hundreds could have been taken had one wanted 

 them. This local l-.'ndnria {Srnparia) is common enough here as a 

 rule, but I have never before seen it in such profusion. Taken on the 

 whole, this has been a fairly good year in the Abertillery district. I 

 have taken one or two species which rarely occur here, and have been 

 able to add two new and interesting species to our local list, v/c, 

 AoDnicta Ic/mrijia and Scoparia cemhrae. 



A month amongst Spanish Butterflies. 



By JAMES A. SIMES, F.E.S. 

 The account published by Mr. W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. , of an 

 expedition undertaken by himself and Mr. A. H. -Jones, F.E.S., in 

 ^lay and .June, 1918, to the Albarracin Sierras {Kntmn., vol. xlv., 

 p. '288, and vol. xlvi.), revived a desire which I had long felt to visit 

 Spain armed with a butterfly net. As circumstances did not seem to 

 interpose any obstacle to the realisation of this desire during the 

 season of 1914, plans for an expedition speedily began to assume a 

 definite shape; and finding that Messrs. T. F. P. Hoar, F.E.S., and 

 A. C. Smith, F.E.S., were bent on a similar undertaking, I concluded 

 arrangements with them for a joint campaign. Various itineraries 

 were discussed, including some which would have left little of the 

 Iberian peninsula unexplored ; but we eventually abandoned such 

 ambitious projects as outside the realm of practical politics, and came 



