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interesting Heteromeroiis forms ; wMle, especially towards evening, 

 the truculent-looking Scarites (jigcis, L., is often to be seen prowling 

 over tlie sand in search of prey, having quitted his burrow at the roots 

 of a tuft of Ononis. Beyond the Spanish lines is the village of "San 

 Felipe de la Linea," W'hich straggles over a large extent of ground, 

 and is, I may safely say, the most filthy and squalid place I have ever 

 seen. There is, unfortunately, no way of reaching the open country 

 except through this delightful village, and even when the pedestrian 

 has run the gauntlet of its thousand and one evil odours, his troubles 

 are not yet at an end. The path for the next mile or so is along the 

 sandy beach of the Bay, which is, except under certain conditions of 

 the tide, exceedingly fatiguing to traverse, being cut up by the hoofs 

 of innumerable beasts of burden, chiefly of the humbler sort. Another 

 path leads through Linea to the foot of the Sierra Carbonera, or as it 

 is called in Gibraltar, the " Queen of Spain's Chair," but this also 

 traverses a mile or more of clean, loose sea sand, drifted into hillocks 

 by the wind, and entirely destitute of vegetation. The eastern 

 (Mediterranean) t)each is very di'eary and barren, and the only 

 noteworthy insect I have found here is Nehria complanata, L., not 

 uncommonly under large pieces of wreck timber, in company with 

 Trachyscelis apliodioides, Latr. On the western beach, such beetles as 

 Isocerus 'purfurascens^ Hbst., Crypticus pruinosus, Duf ., Selops pallidus, 

 Curtis, Ammoplithorvs riigosus, Eosh., two species of Phaleria and 

 Psammobius' po7-cicollis, 111., may be found at almost any time at the 

 roots of sea spurge, and the conspicuous black and white spotted larva 

 of Brithys pancratii, Cyr., is common on the sea lily, Pancratium 

 onaritimum, eating the leaves down to the sand. This sandy beach 

 extends to Algefiras, a distance of 12 miles round the Bay, and is 

 intersected by the mouths of two small rivers, the Guadarranque and 

 the Palmones, as well as by some minor streams. 



A fairly good road (for Spain) leads from the beach through the 

 Village of Campameuto to the small and clean town of San Eoque, 

 rather prettily situated on'^ the top of a low hill about six miles from 

 Gibraltar. Beyond this the country, hitherto bare and treeless, except 

 for a few gardens and a grove of blue gum trees at Campamento, 

 improves very much. Two large plantations of the stone pine {Pinus 

 cemhra)'ma.j he mentioned as especially good collecting ground, and in 

 the early spring the country is one sheet of beautiful wuld flowers, 

 species[_of Selianthetnum and Cistus predominating. Just beyond the 

 " second Pine Wood," at about nine miles from the Rock, commences 

 the " Cork Woods," the great hunting ground of the district, which 



