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and remained there for about three months, during which time flying 

 visits were paid to Gibraltar, Tangier, Goto and Gala Moral, and again 

 to Chiclana about February 20th. Never anywhere have 1 met with 

 such persistent bad weather as during the greater part of my stay at 

 Malaga, and indeed it dogged my footsteps on almost every excursion. 

 At the beginning of March there was snow on the coast- hills in 

 Morocco, opposite to Gibraltar! Whenever the rain stopped a strong 

 wind made collecting impossible ; my diary records from February 21st 

 to Marcli 3rd more or less wet on every day (usually more), the 27th 

 being the only mention of "occasional sunshine" during the whole 

 of this time I spent at Chiclana. Under such circumstances it is not 

 surprising that many of !Staudinger's species from this locality escaped 

 me, but rather that Phtheochroa simoniana, Stgr., Coleophora struella, 

 Stgr. (larvae) ; one or more species of Sci/thris, Polychrosis hihernana, 

 Stgr., and sundry other useful species, with a number of larvae sub- 

 sequently reared, rewarded a dogged but humid perseverance. The 

 character of the country is very different from that of Malaga. 

 Great tracts of young pine-forest cover the slightly undulating ground 

 between the salt-marshes and the sandy dunes on the sea-coast. The 

 undergrowth consists for the most part of various species of Cisfus 

 and Ilelianthemum with Quercus coccifera, Daphne gnidium, thyme 

 and juniper — the latter only near the coast (two species, macrocarpa 

 and phoenicius) ^ but Tortrix cupressana, Dp., + nohiliana, Stgr., was 

 sought in vain among these, it was too early to expect it to be out. 

 On the banks between the salt-pans were many interesting shrubs — 

 Limonlastrum monopefalum (from which I bred what at present appears 

 to be a new species of Sijmiiioca), Arthrocnemon Jruticosum (larvae on 

 this not reared), Siiceda fruticosa and Statice fcrulacea . Other plants 

 observed in the neighbourhood of more or less interest were Droso- 

 pliyllum lusitanicuin, Paronychia argentea (frequented by young larvae 

 of Dissoctena gi'anigerella, Stgr.), Asteriscus maritivms (with larvae of 

 two species in the dry seed-heads, one subsequently producing an un- 

 determined Metzneria), Phlomis piurjnirea (in the seeds of which were 

 larvffi of Phalonia morihundana, Stgr., and a Blastobasid still unde- 

 termined), Osijrls lanceolata, TeucriumfnUicans, HeUuutheinumhaUmi- 

 folhim^ Pliaca hostica, 31ercurialiti sp., &c., but this is not a botanical 

 treatise, and I am indebted to the staff of the British Museum for 

 the majority of these identifications. A great prize was a Pterophid 

 (larva> on Phar/iialon rupesfre), which subsequently proved to be that 

 of the very rare and distinct Alucita oJhiadactyla, Mill. The late M. 

 Milliere gave me one of the two specimens of this species in his col* 



