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with me, I was not able to take more than one specimen. I noticed a 

 good many particularly dark forms of the latter species. Monday, the 

 17th, was about as bad as it couid be as regards weather — high wind and 

 drenching ram all day. I did i' collecting, but made an inspection of 

 some of the magnificent insects which Mr. Salvage possesses, exhibiting 

 some of the most striking varieties and forms from various part of 

 Scotland. Tuesday, the i8th, was my last day at Rannoch, and I spent 

 the day collecting with Mr. Salvage. I took a few more E. ceihiops 

 {blaridind), the females of which were now well out and the males 

 getting rather worn, and one F.eris napi, which species is very strongly 

 marked on the underside in tins locality. We were more fortunate 

 with the larva; of N. diciaa this time, some aspens \t;;rowing by the side 

 of Tempar Burn producing a <air number. I took between 20 and 30 

 in about an hour. I also took 3 larvae of Sine7-inthiis popiili in the 

 same locality, whicli I believe from Rannoch produce rather a good 

 form of imago. C. or also occurred again here. In this place also 

 Mr. Salvage took two larvae of Dia-amira bifida, which, though he has 

 thoroughly worked the locality f r some 15 years, he has never before 

 met with at Rannoch. The next day, my brother and I started on our 

 homeward journey. We drove from Rannoch to Pitlochry and walked 

 through part of the Pass of Killiecrankie, where E. (Zthiops was in pro- 

 fusion, and a specimen of one of the large species of Argynnis dashed 

 past us : it was the only butterfly of the genus I saw in Scotland, and 

 was, I suppose, A. aglaia, though it flew too quickly to be able to say 

 for certain. We took the train from Pitlochry to Perth, changed to the 

 express to London, arriving at King's Cross at about 8.30 the next 

 morning, very tired, but very well satisfied with our first trip to Scotland. 

 On the whole I did as well as 1 expected, as I never expect to do very 

 much on my first visit to a locality. The weather was not as good as it 

 might have been, or doubtless the list of captures would have been 

 greater. I was fortunate in securing the help of an entomologist 

 thoroughly acquainted with the locality, which is certainly a splendid 

 one, but one in which you must know where to look for the species you 

 want or you won't gtt them. Take E. cethiops for example ; this is 

 abundant in the place where I obtained it, but is extremely local, and 

 one might walk many miles in the best of weather, and never see a 

 single specimen, and the same remark holds good of other species. I 

 ought i)erhaps to have done more night work, but as Mr. Salvage, who 

 sugared a few times whilst I was there, did not take anything at it, I do 

 not so much regret having neglected it. In conclusion, I cannot but 

 recommend Rannoch as a thoroughly good locality, and one which will 

 well repay a diligent collector, and I hope that this, my first visit, will be 

 the forerunner of many others. — Henry A. Hill, 132, Haverstock 

 Hill, Hampstead. October /^th, 1891. 



Ki7ig's Lynn. — Up to the middle of July, the season here was quite 

 past the average, and I succeeded in taking several good local species. 

 I have found light in the fonu of gas lamps unusually attractive, 

 and amongst the species taken by its means, within two or three 

 hundred yards of my house, I may mention one Senta uh'ce (a dark 

 var.), two or three Acidalia amitaria, Neuria saponarice, and Leucania 

 straminca. A day in the fens near this town, in the middle of July, 

 gave my brother and me plenty of work, for no less than one hundred 



