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NOTES ON SOME ANDALUSIAN BUTTERFLIES. 

 By W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 218.) 



There are several walks one can take on the Alhambra hill 

 that afford good collecting ; perhaps the best is reached by pro- 

 ceeding along the road past the ' Washington Irving ' as far as 

 the cemetery ; skirting round this, taking the left-hand side, until 

 you come to the far end, then taking a diagonal course down the 

 slopes towards the river Genii until you get to the upper edge 

 of the cultivated ground, and then walk up its valley for a mile or 

 more, at the junction of the cultivated with the uncultivated 

 ground. Another good locality is reached by taking the road to 

 the left, about half-way between the * "Washington Irving ' and 

 the cemetery, and following it for some two miles until you come 

 to a plateau overlooking the gorge of the Darro ; no one should 

 miss reaching this spot for the sake of the view alone, which is 

 truly superb : the plateau, which is thickly overgrown with 

 Cistus, Ilex, Cytisus, Dorycnium, and other kindred plants, 

 extends for several miles, the whole of which is very good 

 ground. This plateau can also be reached by taking the road 

 last described and diverging from it a few hundred yards after 

 you enter it from the ' Washington Irving ' road, at the first 

 gorge that passes alongside it on the left. By crossing this 

 gorge, and bearing up the hillside at the back of the Generalife 

 Gardens and Palace, you come to the ridge of the Darro gorge, 

 and by following this until you get to the plateau you find not 

 infrequently Papilio var. feisthamelii, the only locality I could 

 meet with it at Granada. 



The morning of May 8th broke fine and cloudless, and when 

 I reached the far end of the cemetery, soon after 8 o'clock, 

 I was evidently not too early, for things were flying briskly. As 

 I dropped down the slope Polyommatiis baton var. panoptes was 

 the first insect netted ; it was in numbers and good condition. 

 Swift-winged Colias edusa and the whites flew wildly to and fro ; 

 one did not stand much chance on these slopes of catching any ! 

 Chrysophaims phloeas, evidently reared under cold conditions, 

 and showing no approach to ab. eleus, was in swarms. Me- 

 lanargia ines again, not in such numbers as at Malaga, but 

 in the pink of condition, took up my time till after 9 o'clock, 

 but to my surprise there were no signs of Zegris eupheme 

 var. meridionalis, which was the chief entomological reason 

 for my visit to Granada, and which I had been led to expect 

 on these slopes. I decided therefore to move on further up the 

 Genii valley ; in doing so I crossed several small ravines, 

 down the bottom of which in winter evidently ran a stream ; in 

 these the fine Spanish form of Melitaa deione was in some 



