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As regards the means of getting about in this region, there are 

 steamers several times a day across the Bay to and from Gibraltar 

 and Algeciras, whence convenient trains run through the Cork 

 Woods, with stations at San Roque, Ahnoraima, and Castellar. 

 When you require to worlc the country around Campamento and 

 the Sierra Carbonera, you can drive from Clibraltar, across Ihe 

 Neutral Ground, to the Spanish Boundary at Linea, after which the 

 joui'ney must be done on donkeys or on foot. We tried taking our 

 horses out in districts where there was no other means of conveyance, 

 but soon found it unworkable, one has to dismount so often, or lose 

 the insects seen ; and unless there is a " Fonda " handy at the end of 

 the journey, it is difficult to know what to do with the animals. Then 

 again, riding home with the captures is not conducive to keeping the 

 specimens in good condition, as the movement causes them to flutter 

 about in the boxes, so we found it better to leave our horses to be 

 exercised at home and to do the journey on foot. At Tangier we Im-ed 

 Moorish donkeys, which were found very useful. Your bags are liable 

 to l)e searched for contraband by the Spanish Customs officials at 

 Algeciras and Linea, and by the French at Tangier. 



Day-flying species may, as a rule, be successfully pursued during 

 the greater part of the year, but the T)est months are from the end of 

 February to the middle of July. The end of October and November 

 is the time for Ghcerocampa celerio, L., which comes to " Morning 

 Glory " flowers as the sun is going down. The most productive months 

 for collecting night-fliers at light, I have found to be September, 

 October, and part of November. 



In addition to a paper entitled " Two Months among the Buttei'flies 

 in Southern Spain," by Albert H. Jones, F.E.S., which appeared in 

 Entom. Eecord, Vol. xxiii, pp. 261-263 and 294-298 (1911), and the 

 pa])er by Commander J. J. Walker before alluded to, I have recently 

 seen another excellent paj^er by the same author (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Vol. xxiv, pp. 175-184), also the Appendix to Col. Irby's " Ornithology 

 of the Straits of Gibraltar," Edition II (1895), and find tliat out of 

 the 320 species of Lepidnjitera enumerated in this paper, apparently 

 more than 160 have not previously been recorded from the district. 

 These include a new al)erration of Acidalia eugeniata, Mill., two 

 Noctux, one or both of which may eventually prove to be new species 

 (shown in list against numbers 1988 and 2010), a new Crambus 

 (apparently), three exotic species, and a new Geometer (Acidalia 

 hispunaria, Pving), taken at Granada, presumably by a German 



