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Museum, looking through White's collection of exotic Bhynchota. 

 His types from St. Helena, Hawaii, and New Zealand are preserved 

 there, with a large amount of undetermined material, but I regret 

 that a thorough search failed to discover the species described (in 

 1S78 and 1879, in the Transactions of the Entomological Society, and 

 the Journal of the Linnean Society) from the Amazon. The loss of 

 these, in many cases, unique specimens, would be much to be deplored. 



On the 23rd I did not stop at Ballinluig, where a few weeks 

 previously (at Ben Vrackie, Loch Ordie, &c.) Mr. McGregor had col- 

 lected Corixa Bonsdorffii and Scotti, but trained to Pitlochry, and, 

 sending all my luggage (except my collecting apparatus) on to Inver- 

 ness, walked through the Pass of Killiekrankie, spending the greater 

 part of the day by the shore of the Garry. Velia currens occurred 

 in some of the pools formed by the partial drying up of the river in 

 summer, but although the Pass forms one of the most beautiful and 

 romantic Scottish scenes (when viewed from the Loxoer Road, or from 

 the slippery crag-strewn shore), it is not very productive entomolo- 

 gically. On the 24th I walked to Blair Athol, whence, on the right, 

 a winding path leads to Glen Tilt.* This magnificent glen has been 

 visited on rare occasions by entomologists, and in the " Entomologist " 

 for 1878, Dr. White gave a general account and notes on the Lepi- 

 doptera found there (p. 247). 



From Blair Athol to Braemar — the nearest villages to the glen 

 where one can obtain accommodation during August and September — 

 is a distance of thirty miles. From Blair Athol to Forest Lodge — 

 eight miles — a footpath leads into a tolerable carriage road ; thence to 

 Bynack Lodge — ten miles — there is only a " bridle path " and for at 

 least half of the twelve miles to Braemar one limps along a stoney 

 and badly kept " carriage road." To a sturdy pedestrian the road is 

 quite practicable, and the grandeur of the scenery, and the utter 

 solitude of the glen, are a full recompense for its fatigues. 



At either end the glen is fairly wide, on the north-west side of 

 the river at least, but in the middle, for about ten miles the glen is 

 " so narrow as seldom to give room for more than the river, while in 

 many places its channel is but a ravine through the solid rock. This 

 valley is distinguished by its extreme depth and narrowness, and by 

 the wildness of its upper extremity." On the left, in the distance 

 arises Beinn Dhearg, farther on tower the summits of Beinu Mhuic 

 Duibhe and Cairn Taol, while on the right rises Ben y Gloe. 



I commenced my third fine day, the 25th, by climbing the steep 



* Pronounced " Tcbiltch." 



