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was very common), CEnas crassicornis, and Trichodes octopunc- 

 tatus. These beetles used to cluster on the leaves and shoots of 

 the bramble on a bright and hot day. Oxythyrea stictica and 

 Cetonia squalida and hirtella were also common. I secured a few 

 specimens of Cetonia aurata on jflowers in the garden of the Villa 

 Calderon, two or three specimens of the genus Telephorus from 

 flowers under the olive groves ; one or two specimens of Scara- 

 hceus sacer that were crawling around refuse in the road ; one 

 or two examples of Silpha on a singularly beautifully-marked, 

 but dead and well-nigh putrid, lizard near the Seat of the Moor ; 

 an immature representative of a species of Lacerta that reaches 

 a very large size. The most abundant kind of all was a dark 

 beetle with a red thorax, on the flower of the wild camomile, and 

 which I have since ascertained to be Heliotauriis ruficollis. 



In taking a review of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, several of our 

 common British species were observed, but could not be pro- 

 nounced abundant. For example, on a fine and hot morning 

 one or two specimens of Pieris hrassicce, Epinephele ianira, Saty- 

 rus ineg(2ra, Vanessa urticce, V. cardui, and Chrysophanus phlceas 

 might be seen ; P. rapce even more rarely. V. atalanta was 

 occasionally seen, but high up, as a rule, amid the elms of the 

 wood that covers the Alhambra Hill. During the first few days 

 of May, V. cardui was only represented by worn, hybernated 

 specimens, but before the close of the month I noticed two or 

 three examples, fresh and in good condition. Papilio machaon 

 and P. podalirius were seen and captured, but neither of these 

 two butterflies were common. Of Colias hyale I saw and took 

 one solitary specimen. Colias edusa and Euchloe eupheno were 

 fairly common, I mean so far as seeing two or three specimens 

 of each nearly every day. The former species was, I think, 

 rather commoner at Langaron (a place famed for its mineral 

 waters, four hours distant from Granada by diligence, and on the 

 south side of the Sierra) than at Granada, which is on the north ; 

 a bridle-road leads from its rocky fastnesses and ravines, its 

 terraces crowned with wild broom, Spanish chestnuts, and 

 walnuts, to the ancient and classic Carthagena. Shortly before 

 I left Granada Arge thetis was coming out in full force, but did 

 not prove very easy to capture, as it flits restlessly up and down 

 the rocky banks, and is consequently difficult to approach over 

 the loose stones of the steep slopes without startling the insect. 



The commonest species of butterflies in May were Pieris 

 daplidice, two species of fritillary (genus Melitcea), and Polyom- 

 matus alexis. Satyrus moera and S. meone were also noticed, but, 

 as far as capturing was concerned, were only represented each 

 by a single specimen. Two other species of Satyrid, one repre- 

 sented by a single specimen and the other by three, were taken, 

 and three out of the said four on the highest ground in the 

 neighbourhood, namely, around the above-mentioned Moorish 



