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few which are obviously new. Had I not been called back to England, 

 thus losing a good month from the middle of March to April 16th, 

 the list would have been a longer one, but my Italian valet, Ignazio 

 Sola, took to the pursuit very keenly, and became an excellent col- 

 lector ; his previous experience with me in Corsica having been by no 

 means forgotten. He was thus able in my absence to fill up several 

 gaps, especially by attending to the bottles containing larvae and pupae, 

 witliout his hel[) I should have been disappointed in many instances, 

 and he took several things which I had not met with. 



The only excursions made from Tangier on the African coast were 

 to the neighbourhood of Cape S[)artel and to Tetuan ; at the Caves of 

 Hercules near the former, my little Aristotelia frankenice, first found 

 in Corsica and subsequently at Malaga, proved abundant in company 

 with Poli/chrosis liibernana, Stgr. ; at the latter, in spite of very bad 

 weather, I first made acquaintance with Tacky pt ilia vuniricmulella, 

 Oberth. (= mirahilis, Stgr., LN.), its habit is to rest in the flowers 

 of a species of mallow, two or three being often found in one flower- 

 tube, although frequently concealed from view until the flower is 

 torn open. Pleurota hicostella, CI., also occurred here in some abund- 

 ance, obviousl}^ attached to a species of Lnvandula (probably dentata), 

 from which it was beaten wherever this occurred, and in some places 

 where all other vegetation was conspicuously absent— it must cer- 

 tainly have fed upon this plant. 



A very pretty new Borkhausenia {iagatheUa, AVlsm.), found also 

 at Tangier, occurred near the town. 



In the course of my excursion I visited Chiclana twice and 

 Malaga once, but spent a very short time on each occasion. The first 

 of these visits was on January 2Gth, to look for Gfilechia gaditella, 

 Stgr., at Cadiz, recorded as being taken on January 29th, outside the 

 Landthor. It was not difficult to identify the Landthor with Puerto 

 del Tierra, within a few hundred yards of which was abundant hedge- 

 growth of Lyciiim eurofceum and Airiplex hnlimus. On the former I 

 at once observed mines of my Gclecliia ItjcielJa [Wlsm., Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., XXXVI, 217 (1900)], and jumped at the conclusion tiiat this 

 would turn out to be ffaditella, Stgr., the description fairly applying 

 to it, except in the yellow or more ochreous colour of the fore-wings. 

 This species was not on the wing, so 1 abandoned the search and went 

 to Chiclana, but on my return two days later, on the very day on 

 which Staudinger took them in 185S, I found the true gaditelln flying 

 in great abundance by the side of the road among Airiplex hnlimus 

 about a mile and a half from Cadiz. The difference between the two 



