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Bronchales, and a distinct contrast to Cuenca, t.//., no one is to be seen 

 in the narrow Moorish streets of Albarracin after sunset, while Cuenca, 

 with its broader roads is quite lively up to midnight. 



We were disappointed in finding we were too late at Albarracin, 

 but having taken all the Krehia zafmteri we wanted at Bronchales, we 

 did not try the ground on which they are said to occur, so cannot say 

 in what condition they were. 



We saw nothing of Sefior Narro during the three days of our visit 

 and understand that he now drives the diligence to Teruel, so that he 

 would not be available to conduct future visitors to Bronchales or 

 Noguera. The posada at Albarracin, although clean and comfortable, 

 is cei'tainly the most insanitary house we have been in. 



The diligence took us to Teruel in 6^ hours, thence we came home 

 through Madrid. 



We were surprised, on crossing the Guadarramas, to see the change 

 in the weather. South of the range, threshing and winnowing were 

 in full progress, with a certainty of dry air and continual sunshine; 

 northward, the skies were dull and the air cold, and as we approached 

 the Cantabrian Mountains the mists which rested upon them appeared 

 very strange to our eyes after the clear air of Castile. All the rivers 

 of France were in flood, and it was heartrending to see the stacks of 

 corn standing sodden in the fields, reaping machines abandoned, 

 masses of oats beaten down by the rain, and vines suffering from black 

 rot. 



The farther north we came, the worse things became; we crossed 

 the channel in a gale and arrived home finding everything most dismal 

 and depressing. We came to the conclusion that we had certainly 

 been extremely lucky to have selected Sunny Spain for our holiday in 

 the summer of 1912. 



An Old Essex Collection. 



By the Kev. G. H. RAYNOE, M.A. 

 [Concluded from p. 1'^.) 

 We have now come to the third and last section of this collection, 



including the four species of Lithosia previously omitted, and the 



whole of the NoctiKi; These latter are a very good representative lot, 



and nearly all labelled. 



Having numerous correspondents in different parts of the country, 



Mr. Greenwood got together a very good lot of Northern species, but 



seems to have somewhat neglected his own neighbourhood. Perhaps 



he did not sugar regularly, although several of his correspondents 



seem to have done so. 



Lithoaia coiiiplana, ( = coii)plciniila). — 7. 



Lithosia depreasa, {^ = complana). — 1. 



Lithosia (jriseola. — 6. One being the variety straniineola. 



Lithosia (jKodra. — 3. " Bromley Thicket, 1844." An interesting 

 record of this species which now survives only in very large 

 woodlands such as the New Forest. It has once been taken 

 at Hazeleigh, and it used to be found in Epping Forest. 



Onophria riibricollis. — 6. Four from Bromley Thicket, 1844 and 1845. 

 One, Black Park, S. Stephens, 1846. 



Cybosia mescmella. — 2. " Carlisle, Hodgkinson, 1846." 



