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or among the stones, often with Dorcadion dcjcani ; and 

 Platycerus spiiiifer was taken on the wing amongst Gi/tisus 

 picTf/ans, this plant not ascending much over 7000 feet. 

 On its flowers, or on those of Crcnista horrida, a Zonalris 

 occurred in abundance, with Lytta vesicatoria, Cryptoce- 

 pihahis hoyi, Gynandroph lialma amahilis, and a striped 

 Rliagonycha. On the grass-stems thereabouts Barypithcs 

 sulcifrons, Folydrusu'i afjinis, a JJasytcs, a large Henicopus 

 — the ^ with long black hair, and the $ Avith greyish- 

 white hair — Mcloe majalis, etc., were met with, A^jhodius 

 honvouloiri, too, was very common at about this elevation. 

 The tracks made by the goats amongst the dense growth 

 of Cytisus seemed to be the favourite haunts oiAsida, Tcn- 

 tyria, 01 ocr at cs, various Coprophaga, Histeridee, etc., as many 

 of the specimens captured had evidently been trodden 

 upon and injured by these animals. On the lower sum- 

 mits, especially in the walled-in enclosures where the 

 goats ai^e driven in to rest, lots of common Coprophaga 

 were noticed — Atcuchus, Gymnoplcurus, Sisypilivs, Gcotrupcs, 

 etc., as well as Scaurus, Pimclia, and other Tenebrionids, 

 Histeridee, etc. In some of the open grassy places in or 

 near these enclosures the males of a Chasmatopiterus, flew 

 in the greatest profusion in the sunshine, close to the 

 ground, looking like bees on the wing, and they could be 

 caught in any quantity with a butterfly-net, paired speci- 

 mens frequenting flowers later in the day. In an oak 

 wood above La Garganta, in which there were many 

 " brooms," Gardiopliorus signatus and other members of 

 the genus, Lcbia trimaculata, Strophosomus erinaceus, 

 various Gryptoccphali, Glythra, Agrilus higiittatus, Mdano- 

 tus, Athous, Brachydcres, Polydrusus, PhyUobms, and other 

 species w^ere taken, some of them in plenty. Oti the 

 hillsides near the town of Bejar the Genista ^florid a, while 

 in flower, produced a great variety of beetles, as Lupcrus 

 nigrofasclatus (in the greatest profusion), Cncorrhimts, sp. 

 (in abundance, but all females), Sciapliihis carinula, Apion 

 argcntatum and others of the genus, Sitones, Polydrusus, 

 ]\lclanotus, Gardiophorus, Gorymhitcs, Phliagonyclia, Dasytcs, 

 Haplocnenms, Danaciea, Malacliius, Malthinus, Elmus, 

 Amauronia, Hclop)S, Agrilus, Goroibus, Gryptoccphalus, 

 Zonalris, Zelna, etc. ; Plater pra^ustus, var. aurilegulus (in 

 plenty), a large Lachnma, various Gryptocephali, Athous, 

 etc., occurred on oak ; a brassy Haftica on heath, etc. 

 In the open places on these slopes Gorynibites gougeleti 



