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timo produces in:iiiy j^ood sj:)ecics oE Lr.piiloptcra, but \ only s:ivv a 

 solitiiry dilapidated .spcciiiieu of Vditcssd, cdvdat ; this is not very 

 snrpi'isiM<i;, considering the time of year (October 23rd) and the 

 elevation (2 too feet). On the following day I started by train for 

 Malaga by way of Bobadilla, a sort of " Clapham Junction" of 

 Andalusia. After leaving this place the railway enters the valley of 

 the (jiuadalhorce. and in a few hours reaches Malaga. I met with 

 little here beyond a few butterflies and Macroglossa stellatarum in 

 the l^ublic Gardens, and, after a stay of a few days, left for (^Irenada. 

 I had many hotels in Grenada from which to choose ; fortunately I 

 selected the "Hotel Washington Irving," finding it out of the town, 

 near the Alhambra Palace, and close to apparently good collecting 

 ground, also it is near the " Alameda de la Alhambra," a shady resort 

 on a warm day. The trees, principally elms, so the guide books tell 

 you. were brought by the Duke of Wellington from England in 1812, 

 and with them it may be assumed, in some stage or other, two British 

 moths, viz., Ennomos alniuria {tiliuria) and Xanthia gilvago* which 

 were not uncommon on the gas lamps which lined the roads in the 

 Alameda. I spent several days in Grenada, and made one somewhat 

 long e.xcursio'i on October 27th to the hills. The day, like all the 

 preceding ones, was cloudless, still, and warm, the very perfection of 

 a (lay for butterflies. Pleris Dnplidicc was common and in many 

 instances fine ; Colias Ediosa vvas not uncommon ; and I also took two 

 LyccBna Lysimon, a species J had never before met with. 



The trains in Spain seem to leave at very inconveniently early 

 times in the morning, and it was scarcely dawn as the omnibus left the 

 hotel for the railway station ; on this occasion I had no objection, as 

 the journey to Seville was a long one for a Spanish railway. I arrived 

 at about 7 o'clock in the evening at the Plotel de Madrid, one of the 

 best hotels in Spain, I was told, and I certainly found it very com- 

 fortable. f The Parque Maria Luisa, about the size of Kew Gardens, 

 I visited daily. Pieris rapes, in fine condition, was the commonest 

 butterfly. In the public gardens, however, on the banks of the 

 Guadalquivir, among an abundance of flowering plants, butterflies 

 were more plentiful, principally Vanessa cardui, Lampides Telicanus 

 and Lyccena Lysimon. 



J reached Gibraltar on November 1st in a perfect storm of wind 

 and rain, auguring a bad passage back to England. 



* According to Staudinger's New Catalogue neither of these species is recorded from Spain, 

 Central France being the farthest point south in Western Europe. 



t For the benefit of Fntomologi.sts proposing to visit Southern Spain, I may mention that in 

 the best Hotels 1 did not pay mure than 12 pesetas 5U vin compris per day, whether stopping 

 but one or two days, which, at the then rate of exchange, was equal to about 7s. Cd. per day. 



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