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P. najjt was rather more creamy in tone than in southern examplea. 

 To one who in all his wanderings had never yet seen a true Erehia on 

 the wing, the first sight of E. epiphroti on July 2Gth, flitting in a stray 

 gleam of sunshine over the grass and heather on the slopes above the 

 Allt Druithe Burn, was indeed a pleasure. Very few specimens were 

 seen on this occasion, but on the 31st I met with it again a long way 

 up the Innerhadden Burn, this time in fair numbers, but usually worn 

 to a mere shadow, though improving perceptibly in condition as one 

 ascended higher up the hillside. The nature of the ground it frequents, 

 joined to a habit it has of flying uphill when pursued, makes the 

 capture of E. epipliron not always an easy matter on a hot day. Its 

 congener, E. cetJiiops, was out locally in great abundance and superb 

 condition, among the long grass and bog-myrtle by the roadside, on 

 the north shore of the Loch on August 2nd, when Dr. McCallum and 

 I each took a long series. I found it in equal numbers, but showing 

 evident signs of wear in the males at least, in the better known locality 

 near Camghouran a few days later. Coenonympha Typhon was widely 

 distributed in wet heathy places at moderate elevations, but was evi- 

 dently long past its prime, though enough fresh specimens were taken 

 to furnish a nice series ; and C. Famphilus, which was common, 

 attracted attention from its much clearer and yellower tone of colour 

 than that of southern examples. Vanessa urticw, too, was noticeably 

 larger and brighter than in the south, and was common enough along 

 the roads ; and Argynnis Selene still lingered, in passable condition, on 

 the heaths. A. Aglaia was first seen on July 26th, and soon became 

 common, though its active habits, and the rough winds which prevailed 

 just as it was coming out, did not permit it to remain in good condition 

 for many days. The specimens taken were altogether larger, darker, 

 and richer in appearance than those from the Kentish chalk hills, the 

 females especially so. I noticed one or two A. Aglaia flying vigorously 

 at a height of nearly 3000 feet. But the most interesting butterfly 

 was without doubt Lyccena Icarus. Even on the wing the superior 

 size and brightness of the males, as compared with southern examples, 

 at once caught the eye, and the females were truly magnificent, some 

 of them half as large again as average Kentish examples, and in 

 nearly all cases strongly suffused with bright shining blue, the dark 

 ground colour often reduced to a narrow well-defined border, and the 

 orange marginal spots unusually conspicuous. In many of the females, 

 too, the discoidal spots were plainly marked on the upper-side, and 

 conspicuously margined with white ; while quite ten per cent, of both 

 sexes were to be referred to the var. icarinus., Scriba, in which the 



