THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. VIII. 



[VOLUME XXXIII.] 



LDPIDOPTERA OBSERVED IN G-LEN LOCHAY. 

 BT KENNETH J. MORTON, E.E.S. 



At page 260, vol. vi, 2nd ser., I gave an account of the Neuroptera 

 observed in Glen Locliay, Perthshire, during a holiday spent there in 

 June, 1895. The following notes deal with the Lepidoptera taken on 

 the same occasion. My thanks are due to Mr. Barrett for his assist- 

 ance in naming the smaller species. 



The late Dr. Buchanan White wrote regarding Breadalbane* (in 

 which district Glen Lochay is situated) that it had more alpine and 

 boreal plants than any other district in Britain, but few alpine and 

 boreal insects, while in Rannoch just the reverse was the case. The 

 botanical part of this proposition has no doubt been proved by the 

 researches of many botanists in both districts, but I fear the entomo- 

 logical work done in Breadalbane and Eannoch respectively is so much 

 out of proportion that a fair comparison can hardly be made as regards 

 insects. I do not know whether Dr. White ever modified his opinion 

 or not ; but I may say about Neuroptera his conclusions as above 

 stated hardly hold good, seeing j^schna horealis and SomatocMora 

 arctica, dragon-flies truly alpine and boreal in their distribution, are 

 both found in Breadalbane as well as in Eannoch. Perhaps with 

 regard to Lepidoptera also, the contrast has been too strongly drawn. 

 My own list contains a number of alpine species, although I did not 



* Eut. Mo. Mag., vol. iv, p. 248. 



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AKY, 1897. 



