12 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



delightful days wandering about this ridge, which commands splendid 

 views on all sides, especially towards the south and south-east, where 

 the range of the Sierra Nevada displays all its snowy peaks, white and 

 glittering, and very near, against the blue southern sky. I give the 

 list of our captures for May 18th, 19th and 20th : — Papilio podalirius 

 var. fi'isthauieli, P. machaon, Zei/ris eiiphcwc var. meridionalis, Pieria 

 dapli'liee, Anthocaris helemia var. i/laucc, A. ta;/is, A. helia var. 

 aii.wjiia, Enchloe eiiphenoides, Gonepterijx cleopatra, Leptidia 

 sinapis, Melitaea phoehe var. occidentalis, M. athalia var. iberiea, M. 

 deione, Parar(/e I'l/eria var. ei/erides, Melanar(jia ines, M. sijllius, 

 Lamjndes boetica, L. ti'licanua, F^uhjotmnatus baton var. panoptes, P. 

 astrarche, P. bdlaiym, Noiiiiades melanop>i (much larger than in 

 Catalonia or on the Eiviera), N. semian/ns, P. icarxs, Thanaos tai/es 

 var. Cervantes, Spilothijrits althaeae var. boeticus, tSi/ricthus sao var. 

 enerate. 



May 21st we took diligence to Lanjaron, a small watering-place 

 on the southern slope of the Sierra Nevada, where Ave found good 

 quarters at the Hotel San Koque (entirely Spanish). Lanjaron is a 

 very picturesque place, overlooking the lower hills to the southwards 

 down to the Mediterranean, with fine orange orchards and vineyards 

 all round, ridges rising to the snow immediately behind, and steep 

 glens falling in precipices to the hot, lower valleys, close below the 

 town. Here we spent six days, three of which were hopelessly wet, 

 and the other three only partially fine, so we did not meet with much 

 success with the butterflies. We made three attempts to ascend the 

 ridge behind the town, but as soon as we got about 1000ft. up it, we 

 always came into the clouds, wbich got thiclver the higher we went, 

 so that by the time we reached the snow we thought it best to turn 

 back for fear of losing ourselves. Descending into the glens below us, 

 we found much the same insects as at Granada, only in smaller 

 numbers. 21. deiune was, however, very plentiful, and we got some 

 nice specimens of P. conjdon var. albicans flying in scorcbingly hot 

 dry watercourses, where they were scarcely distinguishable from the 

 white rocks they haunted. E. ida and E. pasiphae weva both common 

 among the cistus, and E.jiu-tina var. Inspidla was out in some num- 

 bers — replacing the type. A. latJwnia and A. pandora also made their 

 appearance, but only very few of these were seen. On the 27th we 

 returned to Granada, and there spent three more very wet days, im- 

 patiently watching the clouds, which did not lift till the 30th, when I 

 had two more delightful days on the " coto " ridge. I found E. 

 pasiphac and E. ida plentiful, also Aporia crataei/i and Tliecla ilicis just 

 out, but nothing very remarkable. The larvte of S. proto swarmed 

 on the sage bushes, and I collected several, from which two excellent 

 specimens were reared by Lord Walsingham. On June 1st I left 

 Granada with much regret, and by travelling straight through reached 

 England on the 4th, after an enjoyable and successful excursion, not- 

 withstanding the wet weather, Avhich is very unusual in Spain so late 

 in the spring. 



Apis dorsata, Fabr., considered in the light of Domestication. 



By 11. HAMLYN-IIAERIS, F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 It is now some years since the idea was first conceived, that by the 

 introduction of Apis dorsata (known as the Giant Bee of India), a 



