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Deiopeia pulcJiella at Soumemouth.- — -A week ago, my brother knocked down a 

 moth at Bournemouth, which he brought home to me with a damaged hind-wing. 

 It turns out to be Deiopeia pulchella. — E. L. Walsh, Pembroke House, Clifton, 

 Bristol : iGth October, 1876. 



Captures of rare NoctucB in the Isle of Wight. — During a recent stay of a little 

 more than a fortnight in the Isle of Wight, we took a few fine specimens of Leucania 

 albipunvta, besides three Triphmna subsequa ; and, amougst other Noctuce, Helio- 

 phobus hispidus, Aporophila australis, Luperina ccespiitis, and Agrotis saucia and 

 obelisca. 



Mr. H. Eogers, of Freshwater, gave us a "private view" of a fine specimen of 

 Isoctuaflammatra, then only half di'ied upon the setting board, which he had re- 

 cently captured, also of a specimen of Hadena peregrina, and of two specimens of 

 Laphygma exigua, all three of which were also taken by him this season. 



The number of moths which came to sugar during the period of our stay waa 

 very small, and the attendance rather select than numerous. — J. B. Blackburn, 

 Bron Seiriol, Bexley Heath ; C. J. Buckmastee, Southiields, Wandsworth, S.W. : 

 20th September, 1876. 



List of Lepidoptera captured at Rannoch in July, 1876. — On the 10th of 

 July last, Mr. Nelson M. Richardson and I started for three weeks' collecting in 

 this famous locality. Our trip having been successful, it occurred to me that a 

 detailed account of our captures might not be without interest to those who, like 

 myself, had no previous knowledge of that neighbourhood. Thanks to the kindness 

 of my friends, Mrs. Hutchinson, Mr. C. G. Barrett, and Dr. GUI, we were not un- 

 furnished with information, but I fear that this advantage was more than counter- 

 balanced by want of experience in the work ; my own attention having, for the last 

 four or five years, been devoted almost entii'ely to the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk 

 fens, even ioood, not to say mountain, collecting is quite strange to me. Consequently 

 the following list is hardly a fair representation of what might be expected by more 

 experienced collectors ; in the ' Micros ' especially, our ignorance of many of the best 

 species has made our catch meagre in comparison to what it might have been. It is 

 only fair, however, to state that we did not spare for work ; throughout our stay, 

 every night one of us worked the highest accessible mountain peaks, while the other- 

 collected over the lower slopes or in the Black Wood. This high mountain work is 

 very severe ; the climb, which when unencumbered is a pleasure, becomes toilsome in 

 the extreme, when burdened with a weight of apparatus and the clothing which is 

 absolutely necessary. As soon as darkness comes on, the cold grows so intense, that, 

 in spite of the warmest wraps, it taxes one's endurance to the utmost to last out till 

 the morning permits a descent. During all our stay, Mr. Richardson had only one 

 night, and I not even one, when there was not a gale of wind blowing at this elevation : 

 often we were enveloped in clouds, when not an insect was to be seen ; and once I 

 lost myself in a dense sea of mist, and wandered about all night, not knowing where 

 I was, till I caught a distant glimpse of the locli in the morning light, while the 

 clouds lifted for a moment or two. As a rule, we passed the night thus, seeing per- 

 haps one insect, or not even that, but everything we did get was rare ; the only 

 exception being a worn out 1£. adusla, which had somewhow found its way to an 

 elevation of 2500 ft. Of course, this work rendered it impossible to do much day 

 collecting, especially as part of our time was occupied in reading mathematics ; hence 

 our take of butterflies was very small. The list is as follows : — • 



