592 Mr. E. Saunders on 



After my first visit to Majorca in 1900 I gave some 

 account of the main characteristics which appeal to the 

 naturalist (Ent. Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1901, p. 205). 

 All three types of country were included in the route 

 taken in 1902, of which a brief account is given below. 



June 26. — We landed at Palma in the morning after an 

 all-night passage from Barcelona. In the afternoon we 

 took the Porti Pi tram in order to visit the hill, on the 

 summit of which Bellver Castle stands at a height of 

 400 ft. " This was the most favourable locality . . . met 

 with during the visit in 1900" (I.e., p. 206), and here I 

 caught the fine new species of Nomada described by Mr. 

 Edward Saunders (I.e., pp. 209, 210). In July the con- 

 ditions had greatly changed. The flowers were over and 

 withered on the exposed surface, and the locality was not 

 especially productive. 



After collecting fur a time, we descended the heath- 

 covered southern slope and made our way to the coast, a 

 little beyond Porto Pi, working the top and occasionally 

 the face of the low cliffs beside the coast road running 

 out of Palma in a S.-W. direction. Along this little 

 strip of coast there was every degree of slope, while a 

 considerable number of flowers were still to be found. 

 Although it was late in the afternoon insects were fairly 

 abundant and varied. 



June 27. — The experience of the previous day induced 

 us to make further trial of the coast beyond the tram 

 terminus at Porto Pi. We explored the varied types of 

 collecting ground to be found along the cliffs as far as the 

 6th kilometre on the coast road. At Porto Pi itself, and 

 again at the furthest point, a little bay was found, with 

 favourable ground running down to sea-level. At the 

 6th kilometre we explored part of a valley which ran 

 inland from the bay. A fine rounded, heath-clad hill 

 rising behind the cliffs was also traversed. 



June 28. — Mr. Holland was ill and unable to walk. Mr. 

 Hamm and I collected for 13 kilometres along the 

 straight, level highway running S.-E. of Palma to Lluch- 

 mayor. We never wandered far from this glaring, 

 dusty road, occupying most of the time upon the wayside 

 flowers, where insects were abundant. Irrigation tanks, 

 fields of lucerne, and on one occasion an old garden were 

 also visited. The whole day's work lay in the fertile and 

 highly-cultivated plain. 



