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Among the localities mentionefl in Stainton's paper the Marshen 

 still affords some good collecting ground on its rocky slopes ; but the 

 opposite hill 07i the other side of the Jew's river is better, owing to 

 its more varied vegetation, and on this hill a certain shady lane 

 between enclosed villas, of which the best known is Mount Wash- 

 ington, proved rich in species. T obtained many good things here by 

 beating the dry fences made of faggots, or wattles, of dead Eucalyptus 

 and Ci/fisus. The lane emerges on high ground on the road to Cape 

 Spartel, o|ien on both sides, with abundant growth of Ciatus ladani- 

 ferus, crispus, and snliiicefoUiis, Avith some heath ; Arbutus, Ildianthe- 

 muin h'llimifoliuvi, and Teucrium fruticans, a new Adela {collicollela, 

 Wlsm.),and a new Pammene (orrt«/rt, Wlsni.) occurred here. Another 

 branch of the same lane running more to the west leads to an 

 abundant growth of Lavntera olhia on which two interesting species 

 are common : Bucculatrix lavaterella, Mill., and Oracilaria hedemanni, 

 Rbl., the latter described from the Canaries. The larva of this species 

 makes blotch-mines in the leaves, and one generation seems to follow 

 another in rapid succession, so that it is almost always to be found. 

 When full-fed it reminds one much of Acrocercops hrongniardellum, 

 r., having the same brilliant red transverse bands across the dorsum. 



A very curious gall, or swelling, in old and young wood of 

 Teucrium fruticnns is })r(ibably attributable to a new species of 

 Fhnlonia, but although I collected a good supply of larvse and found 

 hundreds of empty pupa cases in the older wood, the larvae were still 

 too young when 1 left Tangier, and at present I have not succeeded 

 in breeding a single specimen. 



What Mr. Blackmore described to Stainton as the " Wad-el- 

 Halk " locality is easily recognised, and lies in the direction of the 

 house now built by Mr. Harris on the other side of the tidal river 

 east of Tangier. 



In the grounds surrounding Mr. Harris' garden I found a great 

 variety of plants and insects ; this spot produced among other good 

 things two specimens of the very rare Pharmacis chaviotnilluna, IIS., 

 unfortunately in poor condition (this is ^= peiitactinana, Mn., from 

 Corsica). 



The " peculiar kind of white broom " mentioned by Stainton 

 (Eut. Mo. Mag., VIII, 232) is of course the lovely Betama monosperma ; 

 an undescribed Lithocolletis appears to be attached to this plant, but 

 I have not discovered its mine. 



I propose to extend the list of species from Morocco very con- 

 sideraly in the course of this paper, but shall begin by describing a 



