116 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Guadalaviar, in contrast to the arid, almost treeless regions 

 passed over on our outward and homeward journeys through 

 the country. 



Arriving at Madrid on July Gtli, where we had the good 

 fortune to meet Senores Bolivar and Uhagon, we devoted 

 the two following days to a visit to the Escorial (where 

 we also met another entomologist, Jose Hernandez 

 Alvarez, of the Escuela de Montos) and Toledo respect- 

 ively. Leaving again on the 9th for Cuenca, about nine 

 hours distant by rail, we remained there till the 18th, 

 working daily up the Huecar gorge or valley, or on to 

 the arid hills in the vicinity of the town. This valley was 

 still green enough to afford very good collecting-ground, 

 as, apart from the river, there were springs in various 

 places issuing through the precipitous rocks from the 

 adjacent high ground. The new road in course of con- 

 struction, however, had to be avoided, it being deep in 

 dust, from the constant passage of the mules dragging 

 down the timber from the distant pine-forests. About 

 six miles up the valley was the village of Palomera, near 

 which we found several productive spots on the banks of 

 the stream, and a few miles above that a^ain, Icavinfj the 

 Huecar for a time, and ascending through scattered pines, 

 a limestone cave on the hill-side was visited, though no 

 beetles were obtained therein. The most noticeable insects 

 seen about Cuenca, exclusive of the numerous butterflies, 

 were a day-flying lihizotrogus (2)ygiaUs, Muls.); several 

 species of Zcmahris, in abundance, Lcptiira {uniinmctata, 

 F.), Clytanthus, Trichodes, Anthaxia, etc., on very spiny 

 plants; various OeionWilie, Limts, Larinus, etc., on thistles; 

 a Ccrocoma {muhlfeldi, Gyll.), Omophhts ruficollis, F., two 

 species of Lehia, etc., on flowers ; a curious Anthribid 

 {Trigonorhinns arcolatus, Boh.), on shrubs in the even- 

 ing, etc. Here, too, in the Huecar valley, there were 

 plenty of Pentatomida3 and other Hemiptera, an ex- 

 tremely variable Eurydenia swarming on certain plants, 

 the most dissimilarly-coloured forms being often seen in 

 copula ; and two species of Crioceris were noticed on 

 the asparagus plants. On the hills, which are clothed 

 in places with many spiny plants, as evidence of a 

 much more abundant fauna to be met Avith earlier in 

 the season, we found a large 21iylacitc& {chalcoyrammns, 

 Boh.) in some numbeis, a beautiful Chlccnius {martinezi, 

 Ganglb.), Pwyuriccnus hudcnsis, Goeze, various Tcntyria, 



