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is this spur, it is best to stay at one of the pensions within the 

 grounds of the Alhambra, or at the hotel ' Washington Irving,' 

 just outside. The weather whilst we were at Granada was very 

 fine, with practically cloudless skies, but, to us, abnormally hot 

 for the time of the year, for several days the shade temperature 

 running up to ninety degrees, though for the remainder of our 

 stay it was normal — say seventy-five degrees. 



(To be continued.) 



A WEEK IN BROADLAND. 

 By C. E. Raven. 



One of the greatest charms of insect-hunting is its uncer- 

 tainty. If only we could pre-arrange the weather, our handbooks 

 and lists of localities would be an accurate enough guide to rob 

 the pursuit of its fascination. As it is, though one can be confi- 

 dent of success in some few cases, most of us have to look back 

 upon night after night of cold dismal nothingness — a striking 

 foil to the few " purple patches " of the lepidopterist's career. 



It is such a purple patch that my week's holiday in the 

 Norfolk Broads will always be. 



We started, three of us, on August 1st, after a journey notable 

 only for its abundance of infants and scarcity of porters, in a 

 wherry from Wroxham. My friends were not entomological, 

 and, though I had secured such information as I could from a 

 kindred spirit who had worked a part of the district, I had 

 brought few hopes of collecting and little apparatus — nothing 

 more in fact than a couple of dozen boxes, a cyanide bottle, net 

 and setting- case — the latter half full of captures taken or bred 

 in the preceding week — and an acetylene cycle lamp, which has 

 helped to catch many things. 



On Saturday night (August 1st) we got down below Wroxham 

 Bridge, and moored on the left bank alongside of a rough field. 

 Here about six o'clock I found Cocnohia riifa and Scoparia pallida, 

 neither of them abundantly. As I had only once previously 

 taken C. rufa—dbi Chatteris — I netted some half-dozen. After 

 supper, about eight o'clock, we sculled down to the reedy thicket 

 between the River Bure and Wroxham Broad. Here I landed, 

 and though the herbage was almost over my head I managed 

 to capture eight or ten Lithosia griseola and var. stramineola — 

 the latter somewhat more common — and five N. senex. The 

 few Wainscots seen were all worn Leucania impnra. Schoenohius 

 mucronellus and Chilo lihragmitclliis were the only other cap- 

 tures. 



On the 2nd we sailed to Horning and down to the mouth of 



