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west and found it favourable. Beyond the gardens of the 

 few houses on this side of the Pass rose wooded slopes 

 thinly covered with trees of medium size ; beyond these 

 cornfields were found bordered in certain parts by abun- 

 dant flowers. Higher still was the bare mountain side; 

 although even here the frugal islanders do not leave 

 Nature to herself, for they turn out those most destructive 

 of domestic mammals, goats and pigs. 



July 8. — These western slopes rising high above the 

 Pass seemed so favourable that we all spent July 3 in 

 again exploring them. 



July 4. — We left the Pass with regret. The view to 

 the south of the vast Plain of Palma was a striking and 

 beautiful contrast with that to the north, — the Valley of 

 Solier shut in by steep hillsides, with the magnificent out- 

 line of the Piug Mayor, the highest mountain in the island, 

 rising behind Solier itself in the centre of the picture. 



The locality would probably be far more productive a 

 little earlier in the year. Should any entomologist think 

 of collecting there it will not be out of place to inform 

 him that the only food consists of eggs, bread, fruit, coffee, 

 and goats' milk. The fowls are not to be recommended. 



We walked down the northern slope into Solier in the 

 morning, collecting by the roadside. In the afternoon we 

 worked between Solier and its Port, 2| miles distant, taking 

 the majority of our captures from the flowers on the sides 

 of the dry river-bed near the little town. 



Jtdy 5. — All the baggage which could be dispensed with 

 had been left in Palma, together with the captures made 

 before June 29. The collections accumulated since the 

 start for Solier Pass were loaded, with our very moderate 

 supply of luggage, on the back of one mule, for the journey 

 by mountain roads to Lluch and then Pollensa. As I 

 watched the mass of boxes and bundles swaying from side 

 to side and up and down, I was filled with needless fear 

 for the safety of the specimens. The motion, with all its 

 amplitude and rapidity, is so absolutely smooth and springy, 

 and so devoid of sudden jerks, that not a single insect was 

 displaced or in the slightest degree injured by the two days' 

 journey. 



Our course lay up the steep Barranco, above which 

 some very fine upland collecting ground was traversed. 

 In one flowery valley Argyniiis 'pandora was seen in 

 some numbers. It was only met with singly in other 



