594 Mr. Edward Saunders on 
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 3.—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 
Soller shut in by steep hillsides, with the magnificent out- 
line of the Piug Mayor, the highest mountain in the island, 
rising behind Soller 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 Soller in the 
morning, collecting by the roadside. In the afternoon we 
worked between Soller and its Port, 24 miles distant, taking 
the majority of our captures from the flowers on the sides 
of the dry river-bed near the little town. 
July 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 Soller 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 Argynnis pandora was seen in 
some numbers. It was only met with singly in other 
