592 Mr. Edward 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” (l.c¢., p. 206), and here I 
caught the fine new species of Nomada described by Mr. 
Edward Saunders (l.¢., 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 for 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 §.-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. 
