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modation at some adjoining village, we were told that possibly we 

 might, at Noguera, some four miles on the Albarracin side of 

 Bronchales. Seiior Narro was lucky enough to manage this for us, but 

 it may not fall to the lot of future pilgrims to Bronchales to be so 

 fortunate. I should, therefore, strongly suggest to them the desirability 

 of not omitting to take their sacks. At Noguera we were accommodated 

 at a farm, the house was, for the district, a good one, and new, but the 

 arrangements were somewhat quaint. The ground floor, as is usual in 

 the neighbourhood, consisted of a stable, fowlhouse, etc.; our quarters 

 were on the first floor, and consisted of two rooms, leading out of each 

 other. The front room had a door opening to a balcony for admission 

 of air and light — there was no such thing as a square of glass in the 

 village — this room had a bed at the rear, and the front portion was used 

 for meals and as a sitting, or rather setting, room. The other room was 

 entirely without window or fireplace, and its only opening was a door 

 leading to the front room ; it was also furnished with a bed, and what 

 was more unusual, the walls were festooned with hams and sides of 

 bacon, which gave out a powerful odour. However, it was much better 

 than the sack business, and we were duly thankful, especially when we 

 were presented with the bill. I cannot exactly say how much per head 

 it worked out at, because the board and lodging of the donkey was 

 included, and I do not know on what basis this was calculated, but the 

 total charge for board and lodging three men and the aforesaid donkey, 

 came to a little less than five shillings per diem. 



We left Albarracin on August 7th, at 4 a.m., arriving at Noguera 

 shortly before noon ; during this afternoon we worked along a path 

 over the hill at the back of the village, leading to a large and wide 

 valley beyond, which ran to the west of it ; for the first two miles or 

 so the path traversed thickets of cistus, of many acres in extent ; 

 after passing these, we got to the pine forest with which most of the 

 neighbouring mountains are clothed. In the pine-wood we came 

 across several of the magnificent local form of Pamassius apollo, 

 Aporia crataegi was also frequent, of large size, and easily taken for 

 P. apollo on the wing. The wood swarmed with Argynnids — A. adippe 

 var. chlorodippe and A. aglaia, and I took here the only Dryas paphia 

 var. valezina I saw in Spain. Our best discovery, however, was the 

 lovely Polyommatus corydon var. corydonius. Dr. Chapman, with 

 ourselves, had found this rare at Albarracin. In walking through the 

 cistus thickets, we had each netted odd specimens, but, in crossing the 

 valley just at the entrance to the pine- wood, Mr. Tylecote came to an 

 open flowery slope, simply swarming with this lovely form, they 

 were literally in hundreds, and one could catch half-a-dozen at one 

 sweep of the net. P. var. corydonius is easily discernible from the 

 type in flight, it then appears very near in tint to P. bellargm. On 

 this day we did not see Erehia zapateri. 



The next morning, August 8th, we were up betimes, and, under 

 the guidance of Senor Narro, made for a mountain midway between 

 Noguera and Bronchales ; we began to think that after all we should 

 not see the much desired Erebiid, but our fears were groundless, for, 

 before even we got on the mountain my friend netted a fine male, 

 this was about 8.30 a.m. ; we did not see any more for an hour or so, 

 when several turned up. There was, thereafter, no particular scarcity, 

 at any rate we obtained about two dozen fine specimens each during 



