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get nothing further from this locality, for in the attempt to break 

 away more bark the enraged wasps attacked me, and stung my 

 face and hands so mercilessly that I was thankful to be able to 

 hurry away and escape from these companions. 



On the way back the old aqueduct is sometimes used, but I 

 usually turned into a valley opening to the south-east, in which, 

 under stones easily raised, occurred in tolerable plenty Singilis 

 soror, still very rare in collections, and in company with it 

 LWiophilus cordatus, the beautiful Ilelops macellus, Krantz, n. sj). 

 Colon murinus, and other rarities. Here also sometimes were 

 bundles of straw laid out to dry, which I carefully shook in the 

 umbrella, and thereby secured a large number of good and some- 

 times new beetles, principally Curculionidse ; among others, 

 Ccenopsis waltonii, Cathormiocerus, n. sp., Trachyphloeus, n. sp., nu- 

 merous Apions, Misolampus gibhulus, Helops ophonoides, Luc, 

 Lathridiidse, Cryptophagi, and several others. 



On leaving the valley the road leading from Tarifa to Alge- 

 siras is reached. This may now be followed, for the fields 

 which it intersects are also very productive localities. Thus I 

 found here under stones the two Siagoni in incredible numbers, 

 C]d(S)ilus chrysocephalus, Brach'mus angustatus, Dej. (andalusicus, 

 llamb.) in hundreds ; also, somewhat more sparingly, Brachhius 

 haticus, B. testaceus, and B. glahratus, Dej. ; singly, Poecilus 

 bceticus, P. decipiens, P. cupripennis, P. cremdatas, and many 

 other species already mentioned as occurring under stones. My 

 expeditions were next for the most part directed to the sandy 

 coast district lying to the north of the town, which has produced 

 some excellent localities. The way thither at first follows the 

 road leading to San Rocque, and then bends to the right to 

 the pine woods known in Algeciras as " los Finales," a classical 

 entomological ground, through [the interesting captures of Will, 

 of whose collecting an old Algesiran brave had so much to tell 

 me. The first good localities on this road are the outside walls 

 of a churchyard, only a few minutes from the town. From these 

 one may take the pretty Lithonoma andalusica, 50 or 100, while 

 by pulling out the plants growing on the walls several good 

 Ileteromera and Carabidaj were discovered. The luxuriantly 

 overgrown sides of the road were also highl}' productive. Under 

 the broad leaves, lying on the ground, on different kinds of 

 plants, were hidden Ceutorhynchus andrece v. pcregrinus, Cneo- 



