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alcijone fell to my lot and a couple of specimens of N. octaea. The female 

 of the last is typical, the male, however, is covdida above, but artuea below. 

 Ere long we arrived at the gorge itself, a very narrow defile with the 

 rocky sides rising quite precipitously 100 to 150 feet high, the little 

 rushing stream adding light and viva.eity to the darkness of the gorge, in 

 this very narrow section few insects were seen, except a IJnaniila or two 

 at rest on the rocky sides, here and there, however, the stream widened 

 out in curves and the sunshine made itself felt on both vegetation and 

 insect life. In one of these spots I took P. amanda and a single 

 Af/riailes tlu'ti!< as also A. coridon, whilst P. escheri was not uncommon. 

 It was not very long, however, before we left behind us the narrow 

 defile and emerged into a lovely wooded valley, still narrow, but slowly 

 widening out, and the ascent rapidly became perceptible. P. apollo 

 was not uncommon and was larger than the St. Martin specimens, 

 whilst Mr. Johnson took a single P. wnetunayne. A. cratcttuii, P. 

 .hrassicae, P. napi, and P. rapac also occurred with L. sinapis added to 

 them. Of the Melitaecw, M. phoebe and 21. atJialia contested which 

 was the commoner. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson took also Pontia daplidice 

 and P'ltchloe cardaniine^ in addition to those just referred to, they also 

 took ir. rhamni, and Lr. deopatra, neither of which fell to my lot. Of 

 Vaneasidae, V. io, Pyravwis atalanta, P. carditi, Aylais nrticae and 

 Evvanessa antlopa (one only) were captured, whilst my companions 

 took Satynis alcynne which I did not see. Culiaa edusa occurred and I 

 took a nice palish yellow female. Pararye iiiaera var. adra^ta was 

 common. Of the P^rebiae I took FJ. styyne, decidedly less fine than the 

 Vernet form, and one very heavily spotted form of Melconpias epiphrcii : 

 several species of Ar<tynnidae occurred to one or other of us, such as 

 Brenthix dia, lanoria latlioiikt, A. aylaia, A. niuhe ab. eris, the only eria 

 taken on this holiday. Melanaryia lac/tesis was rare, for we only took 

 one each. ApJuiittupiis Jiyperautns and E. jiirtina var. hispidla both 

 occurred, typical heodeft viryaareae and Hinnicia phlaeaft were captured, 

 whilst Mr. Johnson took one Loweia alcijihron var. yordius. Of " blues" 

 PU'bciits aryits was not rare, almost exactly like our South of England 

 specimens, and P. icarus was not infrequent. I took also a small series 

 ot" Potyoi)imatasseini.aryi(fi,3b\loi which were unusually dark blue. L. avion 

 and Celastrhia aryinlus were both rare. Among the Heterocera several 

 specimens of Callimorplia dnuiinida were taken by me. Whilst 

 AntJtrocera (Zyyaena) brizae was very common, A. lonicerae was of 

 much less frequent occurrence and I only took one A. pUpendnlae. 

 What with much time spent in collecting, coupled with a short 

 shower, we did not reach the boundary line of Spain or even the Lake 

 of Carenea, but we enjoyed a lovely day's excursion and w^ere quite 

 content with our " bag," even though it was not quite as large either 

 in number of species or specimens as we had expected. 



The St. Vincent Valley was perhaps the best ground for collecting 

 in this district at all events during my visit. On the hill at the back 

 of the Mercader Satyrus ciire was in strong evidence and in beautiful con- 

 dition, whilst the females of Hip/iarchia sejndc were large and very rich 

 in the tawny colour of their bands. Melanaryia larJieais was here, as it 

 was everywhere else. Further on round the other side of the hill 

 before coming into the St. Vincent Valley h'.neldo'c enphenoides turned 

 up singly, and I took a nice little series of both sexes. Kpinephele 

 jurtina var. hispnlla was very fine and ('(lenonyinpha paaipha'e also 



