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wide and straight, and like all the other streets in the town, paved with 

 large blocks of granite. The population of Eerrol is about 20,000, 

 mostly depending on the Royal Dockyard, one of the largest in Spain. 



Leaving the Jubia Grate, I went some two miles along a very fine 

 road, wide and perfectly straight, with a row of white poplars on either 

 side. This road ran through fields of potatoes, colewort (run to seed), 

 and young wheat, interspersed with little weedy patches, and divided 

 by old stone walls, which looked not unpromising for Coleoptera. It 

 was no day, however, for insects (though just the one for land-shells, 

 Pupa?, Bulirni, Glausilice and Helices, all revelling in the abundant 

 moisture), but I managed to find a few beetles by searching, chiefly 

 under stones on the tops of the walls. The best of these was a most 

 beautiful Garabus {lateralis, Chevr.), superficially somewhat like an 

 enormous G. nitens, which I found among some old ivy in company 

 with Pcecilus cupreus ; I also met with a fine Licinus (near depressus) , 

 several Harpali, Ocypus brunnipes, various Quedii and Philonthi, and 

 odd specimens of the genera Boris, Bhytideres, and Sphenophorus. An 

 examination of the loose flakes of bark on some large Eucalyptus trees 

 by the roadside produced Throscus dermestoides along with Grioceris 

 asparagi, Phcedons, and other common beetles. As I advanced, the 

 country became somewhat wilder in character, and some nice little 

 boggy patches, studded with good-sized alder trees, and bearing a good 

 growth of primroses, Gardamine pratensis, and other familiar English 

 flowers which I had not seen for some years, looked as though they 

 would repay examination, but were much too wet to work at present. 

 Next came some pine plantations, with a good undergrowth of heather, 

 &c, where I wandered for some little time, picking up, among other 

 things, one Garabus nielanclwlicus, F., which I was rather surprised to 

 see so far north. The rain continued, so I gave up collecting early, 

 and returned on board in a very damp condition. 



The morning of the 16th was cold and showery, but the weather 

 improved a little at noon, and I landed, at 1.45 p.m., at the village of 

 La Grrana on the north side of the harbour. After turning over a 

 stone or two near the beach, with no better result than a pair of 

 Choleva angustata, I went along a steep, narrow, stone-walled lane 

 leading up the hillside, and into a pine plantation. Here I got a few 

 beetles, &c, such as a fine Timarcha with coral-red femora (on Galium'), 

 Cneorhinus ludificator, Plaiyderus sp., a fine Lygceus, &c. ; there was a 

 great deal of moss, very damp and apparently suitable for working, 

 but I could find in it only Barypeithes brunnipes and an Orthochates, 

 apparently our O. setiger. Ants abounded ander almost every stone, 



