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the inner side of the terminal orange line of the hind- 
wing instead of on the outer side. 
At Albarracin we were kindly welcomed by Canon 
Zapater, who gave us a copy of his valuable Catalogue of 
the Lepidoptera of the Province of Teruel. This was of 
infinite use to us; it supplied us with much local infor- 
mation, and we found it entirely reliable in every 
respect. The Canon also told us that Hrebia zapateri 
was not to be looked for before July 21st, at the earliest 
—so we had three weeks before us in which to explore 
the country. We first went to Bronchales, in the 
porphyritic mountains north of Albarracin, then east- 
wards to Teruel, and on our road there (in the hot gorge 
of the Guadalaviar) we took Satyrus prieurt for the first 
time. Later on, we found this handsome butterfly very 
plentiful in these lias valleys, and we were lucky enough 
to get several specimens of the rare female variety whagoni. 
We observed that this variety appeared to be singularly 
attractive to the males; in fact the crowd around 
uhagont several times attracted our notice to her. And 
on one occasion she escaped, leaving three of her admirers 
in the net! 
From Teruel we went southwards to the Sierra Cama- 
rena, and ascended the Javalembre, 0000 feet high, 
where we got plenty of H. evias, but in very bad con- 
dition. We also took a fine P. apollo, with orange spots. 
Returning to Teruel by Villel, we took plenty of 
S. fidia and 8S. actza, but no S. priewri till we got 
back to the lias above Teruel. P. podalirius, var. feis- 
thameli was very common around ‘l'eruel, and we had 
a very good day along the Albarracin Road, getting 
Lycena admetus, L. telicanus, and Syrichthus proto 
besides the S. priewrt, which swarmed. ‘Then we 
tried Bronchales and Noguera (in the porphyritic 
group of mountains) for Mrebia zapateri, but in vain. 
We could only find an isolated specimen here and 
there, though we quartered the district as carefully as 
pointers do the turnips in September. We began to 
despair of it, and our time was running out, when, at 
last, on the 29th of July, it appeared in numbers, and 
we took over a hundred specimens in three days. It is 
the most beautiful of Hrebias, and rather peculiar in its 
habits, flying slowly and lazily about the bushes of 
grouseberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), which form the 
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