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these are modified into an arrangement that has just the appear- 

 ance of overlapping fish-scales. The spiracles are difficult to 

 find, in fact I have failed to find the thoracic spiracle ; the 

 abdominal ones are precisely where they are in the small larva, 

 viz. on the flat dorsum, half-way between the median line and 

 the margin ; they are very small, and differ little in appearance 

 from the hair-dots noted above ; they are minute holes, with no 

 marginal structure ; some trace of the true spiracles can be seen 

 at a little depth within them, accompanied by a scale-like outer 

 margin. 



(To be continued.) 



BUTTERFLY COLLECTING IN SOUTHERN ANDALUSIA 

 IN THE SPRING OF 1902. 



By Rev. Henry Charles Lang, M.D., F.E.S., M.R.C.S., &c. 



After a marvellous recovery from a severe illness, the result 

 of mental strain, I was ordered to get away for rest and change 

 of scene, and found just what I required in the shape of an 

 English chaplaincy at Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia. 

 Starting from England on March 11th, I arrived at Jerez, via 

 Paris, Madrid, and Seville, on Saturday, March 15th. For a 

 few days, as the guest of Mr. W. Buck, British Vice-Consul, at 

 his beautiful house 'El Palacio,' I had every advantage in the 

 suggestion of likely localities. My collecting began after church- 

 time on Sunday, March 16th. 



Jerez is an exceedingly picturesque Spanish town, full of 

 Moorish and mediaeval remains of great interest, and with quaint 

 old streets of dazzlingly whitewashed houses, lined Avith fragrant 

 orange trees. The vegetation in the gardens and squares is that 

 of the subtropical character common to Southern Andalusia, 

 the palm trees in the Plaza Mayor being taller than any I have 

 seen in Europe. The country round is, in point of scenery, not 

 very striking, being of an undulating character rather than 

 hilly. The soil is heavy, and the roads are very dusty in dry 

 weather, and very sticky and muddy after rain. Vineyards and 

 corn-fields are the chief features of the scenery ; these are inter- 

 sected by roads flanked on either side with hedges of cactus or 

 of aloes. The latter are often the only shelter from the burning 

 sun, there being very few trees of any size in the district. 



On my first day's collecting, principally along one of the 

 afore-mentioned roads, between the cactus hedges, I found IViais 

 rumina (common), Pieris brassicce, P. rapa, Colias ediisa, Thestor 

 hallus, Pyrameis atalanta, P. cardui, P. megcera, and P. egeria. 



During the next two days, on the latter of which I visited a 

 small estate known as " El Pinal," where is a small forest of 



