136 THE entomologist's record. 



ance with Coremia mnnitata, and on the same mountain, Kiipitheria 

 comtrictata, Ktmneleda cricetata and Mdanthia ucdlata were common, 

 the locality, however, seems an unfavourable one, and with the 

 exception of some nice Boarmia rcjiandata, closely approaching var. 

 sudorensimn, I did not see anything worthy of notice. The island of 

 Skye being practically untouched ground, I made one or two 

 excursions especially for insects ; in the neighbourhood of Portree, the 

 bogs were full of Cofnoni/mpha ti/pJion, of the usual Scotch type. Upon 

 the rocks numerous specimens of a rather dark and very handsome 

 form of Cidaria russata were sitting, with luipitJwcia cnnatnctata and 

 Melanthia ocdlata ; the ('aiiipt<)(ini)iiiim hiUneata were dark brown and 

 resembled the Shetland specimens, the Melanijipt' montanata were pale, 

 and one or two specimens had the band broken up transversely ; 

 PolyoHDiiatua icariis was frequent and Cabera cxanthonarla and Noctua 

 festiva occurred. Boarmia repandata was not uncommon on the rocks, 

 the specimens I captured, however, were all males, but they were 

 almost identical with the Lewis form, var. sodarensiiim. My son beat 

 one larva of ( 'leoccris viminalis from sallow, this afterwards produced a 

 very pretty form, being much variegated ; he also found a specimen 

 of Cncidlia umhrativa at rest. I was rather surprised to pick up about 

 a dozen larva? of ( 'lotitera nrlusa from a sallow bush, these fed up and 

 have not yet emerged, showing that the species in Skye is single- 

 brooded only. In Glen Sligachan, Dast/dia obfiiscaria, Jutpithecia 

 sati/rata var. ralluuaria, and Aridalia fitmata were all common, and 

 Neineojihila phiHtaniuis and a larva of Sattirnia carpini were taken. 

 The most prominent lepidopteron in any stage in the island was 

 undoubtedly Lasiocawpa qiiercus var. callimae, the larvae of which must 

 have been literally in millions ; in all parts that I visited each patch 

 of heather had its contingent of from two or three to a dozen 

 specimens, and this obtamed not only on the lower hills and in the glens, 

 but on the tops of the Cuchullin mountains, around Loch Coruisk. — 

 W. G. Sheldon, Croydon. 



On a probable new locality for Anthrocera exulans. — In Mr. 

 Tutt's British Lepidoptcra, vol. i., p. 453, is a note against this 

 species : " ? Argyllshire : Mountains in Glencoe district (on July 8th, 

 1898), flying in sun at 3 p.m., about 1000 ft. above sea-level, a single 

 very worn specimen of this species, or of one not hitherto recorded as 

 British (Sheldon)." Whilst in Scotland last summer I again visited 

 the locality from which I obtained the specimen which was the subject 

 of the above note, but the day being sunless whilst I was on the 

 ground, the species, whatever it was, was not again seen. As it is not 

 probable I shall ever have an opportunity of solving the mystery 

 myself, I am giving all particulars of the capture, in case, as is 

 probable, anyone visits the spot, so that he may be able to set the 

 matter at rest. To a visitor to the charming tourist centre of Oban, 

 no excursion is more popular, and justly so, than that by steamer up 

 the lovely Loch Etive. The train takes you from Oban to a small 

 station, " Ach na Cloich," at Avhich you go aboard the steamer 

 " Ossian," which during the summer months daily plies to the 

 head of the Loch at Glen Etive and back. The mountains rise sheer 

 from the water on both shores of the Loch for 3000ft. or more. 

 Exactly at the landing-place, where the coach takes those passengers 

 who care to go on to Glencoe, a distance of some twelve or eighteen 



