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the next morning to find ourselves again on the sea crossing the Straits 

 to Tangier. At Tangier so much had to be compressed into a short 

 space of time, that we had little opportunity for entomological work. 

 Unfortunately the boat service is irregular, and as the boat we came' 

 over in was leaving the next day at noon, we had to make up our minds 

 to return by it. Before leaving, however, we made an early start on 

 mules and explored the country to the south-west of the town. A 

 short ride took us along a narrow street past the Soko, where the 

 weekly market (truly a motley gathering) was being held, into the 

 suburbs, where we passed by lanes bordered with fences of Arundo 

 donax and shaded by Eucalyptus into the open country. In the more 

 open parts of these lanes several specimens of Euchloe Eupheno, L., 

 which is confined to this side of the Straits, were seen with a single 

 Argynnis Pandora, Schiff., and occasional specimens of Vanessa Ata- 

 lanta, L., or one of the common species of Pieris, while the more 

 shady portions literally swarmed with a very fulvous form of Pararge 

 JElgeria, L. On emerging into the open country we came upon a suc- 

 cession of low treeless hills covered with a scrubby growth of the 

 dwarf palm, Chamcerops humilis, Cistus, and other shrubby plants, 

 dotted about among which were the homesteads of the country people, 

 consisting of low thatched huts, and protected by a chevaux de frise 

 of Opuntias. The only butterflies noticed in this part were Colias 

 Edusa, F., and Lgccena beef tea, L. 



We did no serious entomological work on our return to Spain 

 until we reached Ronda, to which a line through very picturesque 

 country, embracing the well-known Cork Woods, has been recently 

 opened. Eonda is situate on a table land which rises abruptly on the 

 west and south-west to the height of nearly 1000 feet above the valley 

 below, and although very arid and barren-looking at first sight, we 

 found that butterflies were more plentiful here than at any other place 

 we visited. We met with most species in a small flowery gorge be- 

 tween cultivated fields to the south-east of the town, whose tiny 

 rivulet paid its tribute to the torrent which eventually forms the 

 beautiful waterfall of Ronda. We also found open country and 

 several species of Lepidoptera in the valley to the south-west of Ronda 

 below the waterfall. Only two days were spent there, and the 2iid June 

 found us on the Alhambra Hill at Granada. There were many other 

 things to be seen and done at Granada, but fi'om an entomological 

 point of view we were a little disappointed. Our principal collecting 

 ground was the dry reddish hillsides just beyond the cemetery, the 



