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seemed a promising locality, more like Hyeres in its Lepido- 

 ptera, with some Basses-Alpes flavour (L. dupunchelii, &c, being 

 present). All these localities are, however, very well known. 

 In Spain, in July and August, we visited two very different 

 localities, taking on the way a day or two at Guethary (July 5th, 

 6th), a pleasant little watering-place not far from Biarritz, and 

 with an Atlantic fauna and flora. In Spain our first resting- 

 place (July 8th to 22nd) was at Puerto de Pajares, a pass 

 across the main ridge of the Cantabrian ranges, at 4500 ft. ele- 

 vation, about two hundred miles west of St. Sebastian and some 

 thirty-five from the Atlantic coast, with a climate and general 

 aspect of country reminiscent of many parts of Scotland, — a 

 humid climate, with bog and moorland, grassy and stony 

 mountains, but passing rapidly on the southern side into a 

 drier and more typically Spanish district. We then went to La 

 Granja (July 24th to August 2nd), and for a day (August 5th) to 

 Navalperal, both in the Guadarrama range, at about 5000 ft. 

 elevation, some thirty or forty miles from Madrid, quite in 

 central Spain, in a region where the lower ground at least is 

 very dry and hot in summer, and the fauna and flora are quite 

 Mediterranean in their aspect, with even a little of the African 

 character that the more southern and eastern portions of Spain 

 possess. The Guadarrama is, however, well watered in its 

 upper levels, and it results that La Granja is one of the richest 

 and most prolific stations in Spain that the entomological 

 collector could desire — quite rivalled, however, by other places 

 in the same range, as, for example, the Escurial. Both La 

 Granja and the Escurial are now becoming familiar to English 

 entomologists. The larvae of Myrmeleon were very abundant in 

 the pine-woods at La Granja, under the trees where the earth 

 was very light and dusty, occasionally six or eight, of very 

 various sizes, being present in about a square foot of ground." 



For the sake of comparison, species that do not belong to the 

 British fauna are marked with an asterisk. 



France : Hyeres. — Dragonflies : Brachytron pratense, one 

 female; Pyrrhosoma nymphula, one female ; *Sympycnafusca, a 

 considerable number ; Ischnura elegans, several. — Ste. Maxime. 

 Other Neuroptera : Hemerobius lutescens, one ; Chrysopa aspersa, 

 one ; Mystacidcs azurea, two ; * Sericostoma galleatum, a very 

 interesting form of the genus, two. — Draguignan. Dragonflies : 

 Libellula depressa, two females, immature male; *Gorrvph%bs 

 simillimus, one male; C orduleg aster annulatus, one rather imma- 

 ture female. Other Neuroptera: *Ascalaphus coccajus, one male ; 

 *Panorpa meridionalis, one female, the identification of which is 

 just a little doubtful ; Odontocerum albicome, two ; *Rhnacop}iil<t 

 vulgaris, one. — Pont du Gard. Dragonflies : Brachytron pre- 

 tense, one male, one female. — Guethary (Basses-Pyr6n6es). 

 Dragonflies : Orthetrum ccerulescens, one male, one female ; 



