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etc., being clearly visible when the usual summer haze 

 clears off after rain. The storm on the night of July 22nd 

 along the Pyrenees afforded a pyrotechnic display never 

 to be forgotten, vivid flashes of forked lightning from 

 several points at once being almost continuous for several 

 hours, and throwing up into strong relief the sei rated black 

 mountain ridges. The Ebro valley, seen from this height, 

 and when the sun is shining, is of a very uniform brick-earth 

 tint, the parts raised above the level of the river looking 

 like flattened terraces of baked mud, and very few trees 

 are visible. From the summit there is a very extensive 

 view of the Province of Soria, and to the south-east the 

 mountains stretching northward from the Sierra de Albar- 

 racin ; eastward, too, the city of Zaragoza could just be 

 discerned. The beech forest is confined to the northern 

 slope, extending downwards for about 1500 feet below the 

 Santuario, and in the more open parts of this, especially 

 along the unused " carretera" or cart-road, there are plenty 

 of Umbelliferse, etc., attractive to insects. An excursion was 

 made one day to the Cueva de Agreda, on the western 

 slope, but as before, without result, as the mouth of the 

 cave, owing to its close proximity to the village, served as 

 ^ corral for goats at night — the interior, in consequence, 

 being very dirty and smoke-blackened. During our stay 

 at this place we were joined for a time by an enthusiastic 

 veteran entomologist, Father Navas, of Zaragoza, whose 

 chief study is the Neuroptera and Trichoptera ; he gave 

 us a good deal of local information, and accompanied 

 us on several of our outings. Leaving Moncayo on 

 July 24th, we made our way on foot over the very rugged 

 forest-clad slopes to Agreda, travelling thence by the dili- 

 gence southward to Soria, an old town on the Duero. On 

 arrival at this place, we found the season too far advanced 

 to make collecting profitable, there was therefore nothing 

 to be done but to return by the way we came, so on the 

 morning of July 26th we lelt by the daily diligence to 

 Tarazona (8 hours' journey), taking the train thence to 

 Pamplona, 7 hours further on. 



The localities visited, or at any rate the Logrono Sierra, 

 have probably not hitherto been systematically worked for 

 the smaller Coleoptera. It may be noted, however, that 

 Moncayo is the recorded habitat of Gyrtonus cupreovirens 

 and Otiorrhynchus caunicus, and that certain species of 

 Dorcadion have been noticed by Escalera from Neila, the 



