184 [January, 



Pamj)hila nostradamits, F.,* was added to my local list, and was common tlirougliout < 

 August, being constantly found at the flowers of a heliotrope bush in the Alameda 

 in company with Lycasna Telicamis. Sciapteron tahaniforme, Rott., also occurred 

 on the Rock. 



August was a comparatively unproductive month, the butterflies being now 

 reduced to some dozen species, mostly worn, though I added one species to my local '. 

 list, LyccBna Lysimon, Hb., found sparingly in a waste place near Campamento on_i 

 the 17th. LyccBna loetica was very plentiful, much more so than I had ever seen it' 

 before, and a few good moths were taken, such as Raphia hybris, Hb., and Cerura i 

 bifida, var. urocera, Bdv., on poplar trunks, and Megasoma repandum, Hb., in the 

 larva state near the mouth of the Palmones River, where Ocneria dispar, L., had 

 evidently been abundant earlier in the season, judging from the number of its egg 

 patches on the oak trunks. My chief captures this mouth were among the Hydrade- 

 phaga, as in a small deep pool in the bed of a winter stream near Campamento, I 

 obtained Dytiscus circuniflexus, F., Cyhister RoeseJii, F., and another Cyhister with 

 entirely pitchy-black under-side (I think C. tripunctatus, 01.), all three in large 

 numbers, with Eunectes sticticus, L., Pelohius tardus, Hbst., Hyphydrvs variegatus, 

 Aube, Noterus IcBvis, Sturm, and many small species of Hydroporus. I took 

 Chcerocampa celerio, L., in the town on the 7th, but this is evidently not a good year 

 for hawk-moths. I heard of only one Sphinx convolvuli, and saw only one or two 

 larv£e of BeilepMla euphorhim, L. ; of D. livornica, unusually common here, I did 

 not meet with a single specimen, and Acherontia Atropos, L., was represented by a 

 single larva feeding on the thorny Solarium sodomcBuni, Willd. On the whole, 

 September was decidedly unproductive, and, as the rains have been very late this 

 year, October was but little better, though Coleopiera were becoming more numerous 

 towards the end of the month. At the ivy blossom in the Alameda, I am now taking 

 such moths as Leucania extranea, Gu., Agrotis saucia, Hb., and puta, Hb., Laphygma 

 exigua, Hb , Folia canescens, Dup., Hadena Solieri, Bdv., Calocampa vetusta, Hb., 

 Margarodes unioiialis, Hb., &c., but all sparingly. 



It will be seen that no very great number o£ species of nigbt-flying 

 motbs have been met with by me, but this is probably due to tbe fact 

 that collecting on the Eock after dark is by no means easy, owing to 

 military restrictions, and is quite out of the question in the adjoining 

 country. The gates of the fortress are closed for the night half an 

 hour after sunset, and should the Entomologist unfortunately find 

 himself the wrong side of the bai-rier, he would be compelled to put 

 up with such accommodation as is to be got in the " fondas" of Linea, 

 whose insect denizens would no doubt exact ample vengeance for the 

 slaughter of their fellow creatures during the day. 



H. M. S. " Grappier," Gibraltar : 



October 31st, 1887. 



There are notes on the Coleoptera of Gibraltar in an old paper (which we have not seen) 

 published m the " Isis " for 1818, by Johann Natterer. In the " Reise der Novara " there are sundry 

 allusions to insects of various Orders observed at Gibraltar. There may be others, but nothing of 

 a faunistic nature has been published. — Eds. 



