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be to go to the public park, lie on a seat, and take a siesta also. We 

 noticed in the public gardens great quantities of Dryas pandora, 

 which were certainly more abundant here than we saw it elsewhere in 

 Spain. The picturesquely situated and quaint old town of Albarracin, 

 is one of the best known, by repute, of all Spanish localities for 

 butterflies — though, probably, but few have actually seen it -for 

 Canon Zapater and Herr Korb have explored the district for many 

 years, and the result of their work is embodied in their Catalogo de los 

 Lepidopteros de la Provincia de Teruel. In this list the number of 

 species of Rhopalocera given as occurring is 110, to which I can add 

 one, Thymelicus acteon, of which I obtained one example at Puerto de 

 la Losillo. We collected at Albarracin from July 27th to August 5th, 

 and found very good quarters with Seiior Jose Narro, who has 

 accommodated most of the few lepidopterists who have visited the 

 district, and I should strongly recommend anyone intending to follow 

 in our footsteps, to arrange to stay with him. We found both Sefior 

 and Senora Narro most obliging and anxious to make us comfortable, 

 and as Seiaor Narro knows the haunts of most of the butterflies 

 occurring in the district, his assistance in this respect alone is most 

 valuable. I may mention here that everything in the houses in this 

 part of Spain is most scrupulously clean, the people very polite, 

 hospitable and obliging, and the charges seem ridiculously low to us. 

 This is, of course, owing to the scarcity of money, and the consequent 

 low price of all items of living. The staple industry of the district is 

 agriculture, and the standard rate of pay for a day's work in the fields, 

 sunrise to sunset, is, in the case of a man, one peseta, or about 7^d., 

 in the case of a woman, half a peseta, or less than 4d. The difficult 

 meal for an Englishman in Spain, is breakfast. A Spaniard's idea of 

 this is, a small cup of thick chocolate, about a sixth of a pint, drunk 

 without milk, and as a solid, a small sweetcake or biscuit. This did 

 not apply at La Granja, where everything, so far as living is con- 

 cerned, is much the same as in France ; but at Albarracin, we were 

 warned by Dr. Chapman what to expect, and, accordingly, we took a 

 supply of tea and cocoa from home, and, in passing through Madrid, 

 laid in a supply of tinned butter, milk, jaixis, potted meats, etc., and 

 with a spirit lamp I had, we arranged to get our own breakfasts. 

 This arrangement is infinitely preferable to depending upon one's host, 

 who does not understand our ideas on the point, and it is quite 

 impossible to make him grasp them if you do not speak his language 

 fluently. It is also impossible to obtain either butter or cows' milk, 

 or the provisions we took with us, in the district. We were agreeably 

 surprised to find Miss Fountaine staying at Albarracin for the summer. 

 and we were able to do some collecting together. We were also 

 fortunate in making the acquaintance of an English gentleman, Mr. 

 J. S. Gibson, who was staying there, and who was most kind to us ; he 

 was able to give me much information respecting the history of the 

 interesting old town, and also most kindly assisted us by interpreting 

 our wishes to the natives, none of whom spoke anything but 

 Spanish. 



The most prolific locality near Albarracin, is down the gorge of the 

 Guadalaviar, some three miles below the town ; unfortunately, this is 

 not altogether a desirable locality, for one has to walk nearly this 

 distance down the hot road, before any ground worth working is 





