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commonest species observed were Leucania albipuncta, L. pollens, 

 second-brood, Noctua xanthographa, ( 'osmia trapezina, some very nice 

 forms, Gerigo matura, Agrotis exclamationis, Caradrina ambigua, Miana 

 furuncula, Amphipyra pyramideq, etc. A single Citria fulvago (cerago) 

 appeared, and some worn Boarmia repandata and Phycis tumidella were 

 also observed. One suspects that, on the whole, the district of Geneva 

 would be a rich one in Noctuids. 



So ended my collecting for 1906. The memories of a lovely 

 summer holiday still linger as I empty the boxes in the hope of 

 refilling them again this year, and now, within a week of starting 

 afresh, if my hopes be fulfilled, I can only trust that I may derive as 

 much pleasure from the outing of 1907 as from that of 1906. To 

 those who regularly collect week by week in the country, and whose 

 lot has been cast in more leisure places, the hurry of a month's 

 butterfly-hunting possibly seems a poor entomological result compared 

 with their more thorough and scientific exploration of their own home- 

 lands. Still, it is all I have now to offer, and the notes here published 

 are the firstfruits of the apparent results. 



A Fortnight in the Highlands. 



By H. St. J. K. DONISTHOEPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 On July 15th, I went up to Edinburgh to join my friend, Professor 

 e, for a trip in the Scotch Highlands. Antalia puncticollis and 

 Ptenidium wankowiezi? wore taken in numbers in sheep-dung on the 

 Pentlands, and I went on to Rannoch, and from there to Newton- 

 more, where my friend was to join me again. At the former place, 

 where I only stayed one day, Trichius fasciatus was the beetle sought 

 for, but, on account of the backward year and the total absence of 

 flowers, it did not put in an appearance. It, however, turned up later 

 on umbellifers, at Aviemore. The best capture at Rannoch was a 

 pupa of Athous undulatus under birch bark, this has since hatched, but 

 is, alas, a cripple ; it is very disappointing, as the insect has not been 

 taken since Turner's time. ( 'arabus glabratus was taken on the road, 

 Saperda scalaris, Asemum striatum, < 'lerus formicarius, and Tripodendron 

 lineatum occurred in the saw-pit, Tropiphorus obtusus and Sericosomtts 

 fugax were swept, Cryptophagus parallelus was beaten off dead moun- 

 tain-ash flowers, Tps quadripustulata, Qaedius xanthopus, Scydmaenus 

 eanlis, and Biros aurora, with a lot of its curious larva 1 , were taken 

 under bark, and Otiorrhynchus Ida nil us was common under stones. 

 At Newtonmore, our best capture was a small series of Cryptohypnus 

 pulchellus, in the shingly bed of the river; with it occurred ( '. riparius, 

 dermestoides, and the var. ^-guttatus, Coccinella 5-punctata, Aegialia 

 sabuleti, and Morychus aeneus. Otiorrhynchus septentrionis, Magdalis 

 phlegmatica, Rhinomacer attellaboides, Corymbiles impressus, Ernobius 

 nigrinus, Malthoides pellucidus, Cryptophagus parallelus, Cispunctulatus, 

 and a small Trichopteryx, in numbers, were beaten off " fir to 

 Harpalus ^-punctatus, Miscodera arctica, Cymindis vaporarium, and 

 Pterostichus vitreus were taken under stones, and Barynotus schonherii 

 was picked up on the road. We next moved on to Aviemore, \ 

 under fir bark, Nudobius lentus, Unties glabra, Agathidiym convexum, 

 some eighl pupae of Astynomus aedilis, and larva' of Dendrophagus and 

 Pytho were found. Cychrus rostratus and Elater nigrinus were taken 



