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perienced in collecting them. Lepidoptera are rather local ; in some 
places, amongst the cistus especially, where a thin herbaceous growth 
occupies the intervals between the bushes, Micros are plentiful; and 
in showery weather they are easily captured while flying for shelter 
towards the cork trees. In fallow and cultivated parts, to which 
Macros are more partial, Euchelia jacobcece is found sometimes. Hy- 
menoptera were well represented. 
A fortnight’s tramp was made from Almodovar (May 12) over 
the Serra de Caldeirao by Sao Bartliolomeu do Messines (May 13) to 
Silves (May 11< — 17) ; thence (May IS) to Monchique (May 19 — 21), 
returning (May 22) by Alferce and Sao Marcos da Serra (where 
May 23 was spent), and (May 24) through Santa Clara a Nova to 
Almodovar. The neighbourhood of the Serra is thinly peopled, and 
at nightfall walking by moonlight towards the end of the first day’s 
march, greater ease was experienced in falling over rocks in the mule 
track, than in finding a place to rest in. A dog barking on the oppo- 
site side of a deep valley eventually led to the discovery of a few 
cottages, each consisting of one room on the ground floor and a stable. 
An open door discloses supper in course of preparation over a fire of 
cistus wood, whose mild and somewhat fragrant smoke fills the room 
and oozes slowly through the red-tiled roof. After knocking at the 
door, an advance, accompanied with apology in dumb show for the 
untimely intrusion, is made towards the hearth, by whose light the 
phrase book is desperately ransacked for words appropriate to the oc- 
casion. A t last the right place is hit upon, and “ Pode Vosmece alojar 
me?” is launched forth as an experiment, with significant pantomime. 
A reply is given : but what is the reply ? That is another question 
altogether, about which the phrase book is silent ; but events throw 
some light upon its nature. The hospitable peasants order their 
grown-up daughter to sleep in the cow house, and improvise a fourth 
bed upon the earthern floor of the family apartment for their unbidden 
guest. Supper ended, all stand up to worship in silence. Then the 
dictionary is admired and employed as a medium for mutual informa- 
tion during the smoking of “cheroots” ( anglice , cigars of ordinary 
make), which they take to have been smuggled, and deem too precious 
to be consumed in one piece. When all have risen in the morning, 
the scene is enlivened by little pigs crowding in to be fed upon lupin- 
pods, and by hens and chickens in quest of maize, the pet of the 
family in her nightdress slapping the former when they seem too 
greedy. The father is with difficulty prevailed upon to accept the 
most ordinary remuneration, tendered as “ something for the children,” 
