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with mountains behind and sea in front ; weather sunny. Col- 

 lected (27th) by road-side from Miramar to Valldemosa, and in 

 Arch-Duke's garden and the cliff below. Then drove to Soller. 



March 28th and 29th— Soller. Excessively cultivated valley, 

 surrounded by high mountains. AVeather cold and cloudy, unsuitable 

 for collecting. Eeturned to Palma on 29th. 



March 30th— Bellver Castle in the morning (sunny) : then to 

 Manacor. 



March 31st— Manacor, cloudy and cold : travelled to Pollensa, 

 collecting in a field at Empalme on the way. 



April 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th— Pollensa. Collected on low hills 

 near the town (1st and 2nd), and on the way to the Castillo del Rey 

 on the 3rd, the road rising to a considerable elevation as it approached 

 the coast. These three days sunny and warm. On the 4th (cloudy) 

 collected on the low ground and in the ditches by the Port of Pollensa. 

 Left for Minorca at night. 



April 5th, 6th and 7th— Mahon, Minorca. Hard rain on 5th. 

 On the Gth and 7th collected at a low elevation near Mahon ; very 

 windy and cloudy (gleams of sun on the Gth). 



Mr. Thomas and Mr. Pocock collected at Inca, Majorca (March 

 24th to April 2nd, 1900), a small town lying towards the centre of 

 the island in the richly cultivated plain, but near to the N.W. chain 

 of mountains. They collected insects chiefly on the hill-sides, near 

 the water-tanks, and in the copses in the neighbourhood of the town, 

 making one excursion to the Albufera near Alcudia, and another to 

 the caves of Manacor. 



In Minorca they collected at San Cristobal (April Gth to 15th, 

 1900), a small village lying from two to three miles distant from the 

 southern coast of the island at an altitude of about 300 feet. The 

 country round is given over to cultivation ; but on the slopes of the 

 deep limestone gullies that run from the village down to the sea, as 

 well as on the sides of a rugged hill a mile or so to the north of the 

 village, the soil has been left to a considerable extent undisturbed. 

 Here and along the sides of the main road, where wild flowers, 

 especially a species of clover, grew luxuriantly, most of the Hymen- 

 optera were procured (see also P. Z. S., 1901, pp. 35, 36). 



This account will make clear the captors of any of the specimens 

 mentioned below, but it may be stated generally that when no name 

 is given after the locality the capture was made by me. 



Oxford : July, 1901. 



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