( 115 ) VI. An Entomological Excursion to Central Spain. By George Charles Chajvipion, F.Z.S. [Read March 5th, 1902.] In the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1897, pp. 427-434, Mrs. M. de la Beche NichoU has given us an interesting account of her travels in Aragon and Castile, accompanied by a list of the butterflies she met with, and a description of the general features of the places visited. Dr. Chapman and I having journeyed through the same district during the past summer, it is proposed here to supplement Mrs. Nicholl's paper by giving some particulars concerning the Coleoptera and Hemiptera noticed by us. Dr. Chapman having already published various notes on the Lepidoptera, The date of our visit, July 6th to August 10th, though probably the best time for the majority of the Lepidoptera, was, of course, much too late for most of the beetles, the characteristic Longicorn genus Dorcaclion, and many of the Carabidse, Malacodermata, Elateridae, etc., being nearly or quite over, owing to the vegetation on the lower ground being already dried up. Still this was amply com-pensated for by the discovery of a conspicuous B'U2Jrestis, not previously recorded from Spain, the abundance of various Lepturids, etc. So far, too, as at present ascer-tained, the most interesting captures in the Coleoptera, as well as in the Hemiptera-Heteroptera, were made in the lower, hot, arid regions, where the fauna resembles that of Algeria, and not in the pine-forested and more humid mountainous districts, which have a beetle-fauna very similar to that of the Eastern Pyrenees. Some of the species met with in these pine-forests, we had captured at Arcachon, in the Landes, on our way out, as Mclanotus tenehrosus, Spondylis livprestoidcs, ^fonohammus gallo-pro-vincialis, Hylotrupes hajtdus, Magdalis memnonia, Buprestis octomaculata, Chrysohothrys solieri, etc. It was a pleasant surprise to me, having previously travelled to the Sierra Nevada and other places in Southern Spain, to find such extensive forests of pine as still clothe the mountains which form the watershed of the rivers Tagus, Jucar and TRANS. ENT. SOO. LOND. 1902. — PART I. (APRIL)
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