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have considered worth having. However, example is said to be better 

 than precept, and as the example failed conspicuously it was only to be 

 expected that the precept would come down with a crash. 



We were stationed at Lochgoilhead Hotel, and our entomological 

 work may be briefly summarised. A piece of wood on the hill imme- 

 diately to the left of the hotel (looking down the Loch) gave us many 

 of the species common in our South of England woods at the present 

 time. These consisted chiefly of Poedisca corticana, Grapholitha 

 penkleriana, Chelaria huhnerella, Cerostoma costeUa, C. radiatella and its 

 vars., Gracilaria eJonyeUa, Peronea scliaUeriana with its vars. comparaua 

 and perplexana, Teras caudana and Peronea aspersana whilst a few worn 

 Cvambus piaeteUas and C. cidmellus fell to the net. Amongst the 

 Geometr,^, Hi/psipetes elutata was the most frequent, but it was getting 

 worn, and it was only by the expenditure of a considerable amount of 

 time that a good series of very nice varieties could be selected. Under 

 this wood quite on the edge of the Loch, the food-plant of CJioreutcs 

 myllerana (sdntiUulana) occurred, and here we found larvaj (of various 

 sizes), pupa? and imagines, all at the same time. Cidaria immanata also 

 occurred in the wood, and at dusk we netted Epnone apiciaria, Campto- 

 gramma bih'neata, Melanippe sociata, Larentia olicata, Cidaria testata 

 with Cidaria prunata on the ragwort flowers. Sugar was put on here 

 once only, and the solitary visitor was a single specimen of TriphcBna 

 fimbria. Above this was a heather-clad slope running up some 1,200 

 feet, and on the upper parts of this sloj^e Peronea caledoniana was in 

 great abundance but much worn, also Larentia didi/mata with a few late 

 Larentia ccesiata sitting on the stone boulders, and an occasional AmbJi/ptilia 

 ncanthodacfyla on the heath blossoms, whilst between this hill and Ben 

 Donich, the latter situated behind the hotel, a rapid 1 >urn had cut its way 

 deep into the rocks, and the banks were thickly covered witli mountain 

 ash and birch, on the stems of which Cidaria immanata rested in abund- 

 ance ; some were remarkably pale and the general tendency to variation 

 here was decidedly in this direction. They were, however, much easier 

 to see than to catch, and standing on a stone in the burn, swinging 

 round on one leg and occasionally dropping the other in the water up 

 to the knee resulted as often in failure as in success, but the Doctor 

 was an adept at catching under these peculiar conditions, and generally 

 handed me his net every few minutes with two or three specimens in 

 it to box. Wherever ^ve went we found that similar localities produced 

 a great abundance of immanata, and after a few days the remainder of 

 my stay resolved itself into working for good varieties of this species. 

 About a mile-and-a-half from the hotel, along the road to Glencroe, a 

 small wood runs along the edge of Ben Donich and here C. immanata 

 was also abundant, but it Avas remarkable what a large percentage of the 

 specimens here were uniformly of the same type, rather dark coloured 

 with a very intense black band, scarcely a pale one being met with. 

 On the banks of a burn, farther on towards Glencroe, but still on Ben 

 Donich, the specimens Avere particularly striking in having a large 

 percentage of red in the ground colour, no doubt due to a response to 

 environment, the rocks here being mainly of a dark red coloration, 

 whilst those near the burn, prcAnously mentioned, were remarkable for 

 their slaty hue, and there, as I have before remarked, the large jiercentage 

 of the specimens were pale forms. Li most of these localities, too, 

 Larentia olivata was abundant. One had only to find a hollow cavity 



