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basal ocelli of the fore-wing beneath are obsolete. A beautiful 

 selected series, chiefly taken in the evening and on dull days at rest 

 on rushes, &c., in a boggy place on the bank of the river Tummel 

 close to Kinloch, was secured ; and in the same spot L. Artaxerxes was 

 met with sparingly, and was also found flying with Erehia oetldops. 



Among the Bomhyces, belated and probably ichneumoned larvae 

 of Orgyia fascelina were now and then seen on the heather, and those 

 of Lasiocampa ruhi (young), quercus var. callunce (full grown), and 

 Saturnia carpini, were fairly plentiful. On the last day of my stay, 

 while I was beating alder for Melanthia ruhiginata var. plicmhata, 

 something fell with quite a startling thump on the grass, and proved 

 to be the first larva of Endromis versicolor which I had ever seen ; it 

 was full-fed, survived the journey to Sheerness, and is now safely in 

 the pupa state. Very small larvae of Notodonta dromedarius were often 

 beaten from the same tree, and those of Cymatophora or from aspen, 

 while on birch I found one or two larvae of Acronycta lejjorina. Agrotis 

 strigula {porphyrea) flew commonly over the heather, but was in- 

 variably too much worn to be worth taking ; a few fine examples of 

 Stilhia anomala were disturbed during the day in rocky places at Carie 

 and elsewhere, Plusia chrysitis turned up in the hotel, and P. interro- 

 gationis was frequently seen on the moors, usually going like the wind 

 over the roughest places, and only one specimen in tolerable condition 

 was caught. 



Of the Geometers, Ellopia fasciaria and Boarmia repandata were 

 met with in the Black Wood, but in every instance in the last stage 

 of dilapidation. Dasydia ohfuscata was widely distributed, and in 

 good condition when found, but was decidedly scarce ; the first speci- 

 men seen being fished out of a pool of water into which it had just 

 fallen, very little to its detriment. Of Geometra papilionaria I saw 

 two fine examples, taken by two collectors from Yorkshire who were 

 on a flying visit to Kinloch. Acidalia fumata was nearly over, and 

 hard to obtain in good order, but on my arrival the very local Fidonia 

 pinetaria was just in its prime in its head-quarters at the Black Wood, 

 but it did not remain long in good condition. The males flew briskly, 

 even on dull days, over the great clumps of its food-plant, the red 

 whortleberry, Vaccinium vitis-idcea, from which the more sedentary fe- 

 male might be disturbed. The genus Larentia was much in evidence, 

 and included L. ccesiata, very plentiful at all elevations except the 

 highest, and very variable in colour and marking ; ruficinctata, to 

 whose locality I was kindly introduced by Mr. Eeid, occurred sparingly 

 on an outcrop of metamorphic limestone on the flanks of Schiehallion, 



