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Our next most interestiuf? capture was SomatocMora ardica, 

 found settled in the sunshine on a ling-covered bank in the same glen,- 

 on the 4.th, by my son, an active youngster of eight years, just getting 

 in his hand with the net. He developed a special interest in this 

 beautiful metallic insect with green, jewel-like eyes, and his captures 

 of it ran about jMri passu with my own. It was none too common, 

 and, owing to the unsuitable weather conditions, it was, as a rule, 

 restless and rather wild in its flight, but as we were evidently in the 

 centre of its breeding area, we were able to make the most of our 

 opportunities, and we found it up to the end of our stay. 



jEschna juncea from the 4th was exceedingly common in both 

 sexes, and it was interesting to watch them in the evening seeking the 

 birch trunks which were exposed to the sunlight, as many as three 

 having been noticed on one tree. Of other dragon-flies, Cordulegaster 

 annulatns was the most abundant. A female was observed ovipositing 

 onthe gi'avelly shore of asmall /oc/i. One rather worn $ oi Leucorrhmia 

 duhia was found at a small sphagnum bog near Loch Trieg. Lihellula 

 quadrimacidata was not very common, being perhaps over, although 

 odd examples were taken up to July 23rd. Enallagma cyathigerum 

 and PyrrJiosoma nymphula were the only other dragon-flies seen. 



Of Phcoptera, nymph- skins of Perla maxima and P. cej^halotes 

 were found in quantity at the Eiver Spean, while the latter species, on 

 the same evidence, had been common at Loch Trieg just above the 

 point of efflux of the river. A small and dark form of CMoroperla 

 grammatica swarmed on the river just below the loch. Isojjteryx 

 torrentium was common at smaller streams. The genus Nemotira was 

 represented by N. variegata, N. cinerea, JSf. camhrica, and N. incom^picua ; 

 and Leucfra by L. klapaleki, L. albida and L. inermis. 



Panorpa germanica was common, flitting about amongst bog- 

 myrtle in sheltered places, the majority of the males very lightly 

 spotted, but mixed with a few more typically marked examples. 



The genus Hemerohius (using the term in the wide sense) was 

 well represented in species, if not in numbers. It was interesting to 

 meet again H. mortoni, which I had not seen alive in this country since 

 taking the type specimens in Eannoch. The other species noticed were 

 H. stigma, pini, atrifrons, orotypus, hitescens, marginata, concinnus and 

 quadrifasciatus. Chrysopa was rare, C. vittata (2) and C. alba (1) 

 being the only species seen. Sialis lutaria was nearly over. 



Trichoptera, with a few exceptions, were not very common. Tlie 



