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Barrett in the Buckinghamshire list (' Victoria History ') at 

 Wendover on the east ; and Mr. Peachell used to take it in the 

 neighbourhood of High Wycombe on the west. In the southern 

 parts of the county it seems to be fairly common, e.g. at Chalfont 

 St. Peter's, abundant ; Rev. J. Seymour St. John (Entom. 

 vol. xxii. p. 165), Burnham Beeches and Beaconsfield. Mr. 

 L. E. Dunster writes {in I'M.) that he has never taken the species 

 in Bucks., but that a friend of his captured examples near High 

 Wycombe on August 5th, 1913. Oak woods are infrequent on 

 the Chilterns themselves, hence probably the scarcity. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES IN MAJORCA IN JANUARY, 

 FEBRUARY, AND MARCH, 1914. 



By H. 0. HoLFORD, F.E.S. 



Having spent many winters in the Island of Majorca on 

 account of its excellent winter climate, its beautiful scenery, and 

 friendliness of its inhabitants, my wife and I arrived there at 

 the end of December, 1913. I have always done a certain 

 amount of butterfly hunting whilst there, and I thought that the 

 following notes on insects taken or observed might be of interest : — 



Our headquarters were at Cas Catala Hotel, about four miles 

 from Raima, along the coast, a most comfortable hotel situated 

 right on the sea, and it was within a few miles from here that 

 my collecting was done, until we went to the extreme east of the 

 island. 



The country for the last three years had suffered very much 

 from drought, and all the vegetation, except in the highly 

 cultivated parts, was visibly affected ; wild flowers and almond 

 blossom was quite six weeks late ; insects were also later than 

 usual. Running north from the hotel is a very long sheltered 

 rocky ravine, with plenty of scrub and fairly well-wooded in 

 parts ; this has always been one of my best hunting grounds, 

 but this year there was nothing much about, and it was much 

 the same in other places, the insects were there but few in 

 number. The weather was windy and much colder than I have 

 experienced in previous years, but certainly very much better 

 than in any of the usual European winter resorts. The whole 

 of the ground here is rocky, except in the cultivated patches, 

 partly covered with low scrub pines and ilex or evergreen oak ; 

 other parts mostly barren, steep, rocky ground ; the lower parts 

 and valleys were well cultivated with almonds, olives, figs and 

 the locust bean tree. I found there were invariably more 

 insects on the steep barren rocky south slopes than in more 

 inviting-looking places, where there was plenty of vegetation 



