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summit of a mountain nearly 3000 foot in lioiglit, flying over tlie stones and seanty 

 lichen, in a keen wind, wliicli seemed to have no terrors for these hardy moths. 

 Lower down Hadena glauca was found sparingly on posts, whenever the sun 

 appeared, and one specimen of Iliippn rficfi.linea. Euj)ilhecia indiqnfa occurred 

 among the firs, and satyrafa, nanatn, and vulgata among the heather and bushy 

 scrub. Platypterijx, lacertula, Demax cort/Ii, and Lohophora hfixapterata, were 

 beaten out of birch and alder, and Fidonia p'nilaria and atoinaria were in profusion. 

 I was surprised, on June 16th, to see two specimens of Chelonia rus.tula flying at 

 a considerable elevation at Braomar. 



The following list of Micro- Lepidopfern from the same place, which, with 

 that of those from Aviemore, has been kindly verified and corrected by Mr. Eustace 

 Bankes, may prove of some interest: — Antithesia xororculana, Stigmonota eoniferana, 

 Cnephaxia pollfana, Oelechia wthiops, solutella, and ntrella, Inciirnaria pectinea, 

 Ornixhetulas, Gracilaria auroguttella, Argyrefsthia brockeella (unicolorous aberra- 

 tion), Oenerostoma piniaripUn, Coleophora murinipenneUa, LithocoUetix xpinolella, 

 Nepticula woolhopiella, Micropteryx purpurella and nlUonplla. 



On June 22nd I moved on to Aviemore, where several interesting species were 

 obtained •. — Antithesia xororculana and sauciana var. staintoniann (two specimens), 

 Phlaeode.i tetraquetrana, Coccyx spleiididnJann, cosmophorana, and diMinctana, Stig- 

 monota cognatana, Eriopsela quadrana, Retinia pinivorana and resineUa, Opadia 

 funebrana, Euchromia mygindana and arbutella, Coccyx nemoriraga and vacci- 

 niana. Among the Tineina, 3Iicropteryx aUionella, Oelechia solutella (among 

 them a fine hoary-grey variety, of which two were seen, and one taken), streliciella, 

 politella, longicorni.t, proximella, ericetella, notatella, and ximilit var. conjinis, 

 Ornix loganella and hetulae, Coleophora juncicolella, Lithocolletix xpinolella, and 

 one much wasted Nepticula woolhopiella (?). The list is a scanty one, owing to 

 the weather ; but besides the fact of its including G. streliciella, II. -S., Mr. 

 Bankes informs me that four specimens of a Coleophora, three of which were 

 taken among Vaccinium oxycoccos, are probably C. marginatella, H.-S., a species 

 hitherto unknown in Britain. With the exception of the commonest species, 

 all these insects required careful looking for, and individual examples were few 

 and far between, so that I was unable to procure a full series of any of the rarer 

 kinds, but hope another year to remedy this defect. — C. T. Chttttwrll, Rwelme 

 Rectory, Wallingford : September, 1907. 



Coleophora marginatella, H.-S. (?), in Scotland. — Among the many noteworthy 

 species and varieties of Scottish Lepidoptera that I have lately had the pleasure of 

 examining for Canon Cruttwell, a Coleophora, of which he secured, in June last, one 

 example amongst mixed herbage at Braemar, Aberdeenshire, and three others 

 amongst Vaccinium oxycoccos, at Aviemore, in the county of Inverness, is certainly 

 second to none in interest. Eealizing that it was distinct from all the species in the 

 British list, and being unable to reconcile it with any Coleophora described by the 

 continental authors at hand, I forwarded the specimens to Lord Walsingham, who, 

 after a vain search in his own collection and in those of Zeller and Hofmann, found 

 that they agreed well with the figure and description of C. marginatella, which was 



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