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places where there is some sort of hotel. The show places to 
which winter guests resort have good hotels, some first-class, 
some called first-class. After the war many have become 
much inferior to what they were in 1914, generally due to a 
compulsory change in management. Restricted as the col- 
lector is in the choice of localities, he will nevertheless get a 
true picture of the fauna of the Tell if he visits only a few of 
the better places in the hills. Nearly all that is most charac- 
teristic of the coast zone can be found on excursions from 
Alger. After having satiated his eyes and mind on the most 
interesting picture of life presented by the numerous races of 
man in varied garb which have congregated at Alger, and 
after having walked through the narrow streets of the native 
town up to the Kasbah, the old palace and fortress of the Dey 
of Alger, the Entomologist will be ready and long for a flowery 
hillside or green valley where his eyes might encounter some- 
thmg more delightful for him than even the picturesque 
crowd on the Place du Gouvernement. He can do no better 
than explore the valleys easily reached from Mustapha 
Supérieur; the rough ground near the golf course, and the 
woods, meadows and fields in the neighbourhood of Chateau 
Hydra, and perhaps visit the-Forét de Bainen to the west of 
Alger and the sands and swamps between Maison Carrée and 
Cape Matifou. As early as January the Lepidopterist will 
find something worth collecting. Probably the first species 
that makes his heart beat—provided it is his first visit to 
Algeria—will be Zygaena algira, which is then already on the 
wing wherever Genista is plentiful. In spring and summer he 
will see the usual Riviera butterflies, often somewhat modified, 
Gonepteryx cleopatra, Luchloé belia, Ganoris brassicae, Pararge 
egeria, Pararge megera, Epinephele jurtina, Thestor ballus and 
mauretanicus, Papilio machaon and podalirius, and Thais ru- 
mina. But whathe perhaps will be astonished not tofind are the 
familiar Melitaea and Argynnis so prominent in the European 
fauna. The smaller Argynnis, with the exception of lathonia, 
do not occur in Algeria, and Melitaeae are very local. Apart 
from species of restricted range the fauna in the Tell of Eastern 
and Central Algeria is very uniform; what one finds in the 
east near Souk-Ahras you may expect to meet again in the 
