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A. meliloti, but that it has too broad a marginal band to hindwings. 

 A. aarpednn just coming out as I left; about ten examples and one var. 

 triniacidata, Esp. At/laope infausta also began to show up at the end 

 of my visit. I give a complete list of the moths I brought home, but 

 feel sure that I took no heed of many more which are common every- 

 where, though many of those included must have been captured for 

 other reasons than their rarity. Among the butterflies, I was greatly 

 puzzled to know whether things were first, second, or third broods. 

 The Spanish collector living on the spot might get to understand 

 them. But to me there appeared to be a continuous succession of 

 emergences of nearly everything. 



The following is a list of all insects taken and identified : — l'a}>ilio 

 pod all r ins var. feisthameUi, frequent ; 7'. niacJiaon, rare and ordinary ; 

 Tliais rinnina var. niedesicaste : Aporia cratoegi ; Pieris braa^^irae : P. 

 rapae : P. napi var. napaeae : Pontia daplidice ; Ant/ioc/iaris helia var. 

 ausnnia : Kucfdoe cardammes (one, Jones) ; Colias ednsa \a,v. helice : ('. 

 hyale, very scarce ; (Tonopteryx rhamni : Limenitis Camilla, two or three 

 only; Pi/rameis atalanta : P. cardiii : Vanessa io ; Aylais tirticae, liirge 

 and brilliant, but typical in markings ; Eiifionia polychlorns : Euvanessa 

 antiopa, hybernated imagines and larvae ; Polyyonia c-album, early 

 brood worn to rags ; Melitaea aiivinia var. iberica, nearly over .June 

 21st; M. desfontainii (boetica), Jones took a pair same date: .1/. 

 cinxia ; M. didynia var. occidentalis, very local, and not abundant ; M. 

 deione : M. athalia (Jones) ; M. parthenie ; Laeusopis robon's .- Rliifiia 

 spinl and var. lynceiis, common ; Nnrdmamiia ilicis and vars. cerri and 

 aescidi, very abundant, partial to acacia trees, is it possible that it even 

 lays its eggs on these? Nordmannia acaciae, rare; Callophrys rubi ; 

 Bithys (juercus ; Heodes viryaureae var. uiieyii : Loireia alcipliinn var. 

 yordiiis : Piionicia jddaeas : Plebeius aeyon ; Scolitantides baton var. 

 pannptes, two ; Aricia astrarche, and trans, to var. alloits : Polymn- 

 matns icarus var. celina, very scarce, about six in all, the only form of 

 icariis seen ; Cupido miniinus, very small ; Cyaniris seiiiianiKs, large 

 and common, heavily-spotted undersides ; Lampides hoeticus .- < 'elas- 

 ti'ina aryiolus ; Adopaea lineola : A. flava: Urbicola coiiivia, one on the 

 last day ; Auyiades sylvanus ; Erynnis alceae: E. althaeae; PoicelUa sao : 

 Hesperia cart/iami ; H. malvae : H. alveus : Xisoniades tayes, one worn; 

 Brenthis hecate, nearly over by June 29th ; B. daphne : Issoria lat/ionia : 

 Aryynnis aylaia, undersides with the green conspicuously bright ; 

 A. niobe var. eris : A. adippe and vars. chlorodippe and deodippe : Dryas 

 paphia var. inimaadata, three males only ; D. pandora and ab. paiiper- 

 cida, very numerous ; Melanaryia lachesis, the commonest butterfiy, ab. 

 catalenca, scarce ; J/, iapyyia var. cleont/ie, fairly common ; M. syllius, 

 had been abundant, but apparently local ; Erebia erias, three in the 

 mountains, and one very worn in the park close to the town ; Satynis 

 eirce, abundant; Hipparckia alcyone, ditto; H. seniele, common and fine, 

 but not var. aristaeus : Pararye eyeria, type, not common during our 

 stay, probably we were between broods ; P. ineyaera : P. maera and 

 var. adrasta, common ; Epinephele jurtina, most females var. hispulla, 

 the males generally exceptionally dark; E. lycaon, common from 

 July 12th ; E. tithonus, just coming out July lith, males only ; (J(ie)io- 

 nympha iphioides ; C. arcania, common, large and very broad, black 

 borders; C'.^j«y»/)/(/Z((.s, very small and ordinary; Ap/tantopus hyperanthas. 

 Heterocera : Hemaris tityus (broad-bordered); Catocala conversa ; 



