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northwards), stretch the sand-hills, and it is here that most of my 

 work has been done. This part of the coast is botanically very rich, 

 especially about St. Cyrus, where some very rare plants are to be 

 found, among' them being Dianthus deltoides, SiJene nutans, Cam- 

 panula glomerata, (', latifolia, and Veronica anagallis, whilst Vicia 

 cracca grows in abundance. On the south side of the river the coast 

 changes, and in place of the sand we have high cliii's and rugged trap rocks, 

 intersected with small bays. Inland the country is rather Hat, until 

 we reach the base of the Grampians, some fourteen miles off, and about 

 there are several high elevations, of between 2,000 and 8,000 feet, 

 which, no doubt, would produce some very good things, but up to the 

 present I have not had time to work them. The district is fairly well 

 wooded, but there is rather a dearth of oak trees. Sallows are plenti- 

 ful, and, as a rule, very easily worked. I think there are few 

 entomologists who work harder than Mr. Duncan and myself. Through 

 March and April we are generally in the woods by 5 a.m., and if we 

 do return home with perhaps only a couple of Fanalis piniperda each, 

 we try hard to be satisfied. I must say that our early morning 

 excursions have been very disappointing, and I, at any rate, mean to 

 give them up, as I don't think it is worth while to hunt around the 

 tree-trunks on frosty mornings for the sake of a tevf Lanntia nndl istriy- 

 aria and F. piniperda, notwithstanding the good old advice of the Rev. 

 J. G. Wood, to "Get up early, and go round tree-trunks and palings." 

 This year the sallows were very late, and our first expedition to them 

 was on April 17th. Each taking a couple of sheets, 12 feet by 10, 

 and packing them on our bicycles, we were soon at our work, and 

 obtained any quantity of Taeyiiocanipa gothica (a few var. gothicinaj, 

 T. stahilis, T. instnhilis, and a few P. piniperda and Cidaria suf- 

 fumata. A week later Pachnohia rubricotfa appeared, but these were 

 not so plentiful as last year. On May Gth we went to Inglis-Maldis 

 (eight miles inland), and on the heather caught a fair number of 

 Saturnia carpini. Fidonia carhonaria, Bupalus piniaria, and Anarta 

 myrtilU. The sallows kept us busy until the beginning of May, when 

 we changed our hunting ground to St. Cyrus, a splendid ground for 

 Lijcaena aslrarche var. artaxerxes. Here we Avorked nearly every 

 night for a month, combining the pleasures of netting and sugaring, 

 and the following is a list of our captures : Hepialus lupulinus, H. 

 sylvinus, H. velleda, H. humuJi, Spilosoma menthastri, S. fuligtnosa, 

 Odontopera hidentata, Choerocampa porcellus, Cabera pusaria, 

 Larentia didymata, L. viridaria, Enpnthecia lariciata, Melanthia 

 ocellata, Melanippe montanatn, Cidaria dotata, Euholia limitata, 

 Anaitis plagiata, Agrotis segetum, Noctua plecta, Hadena adusia, 

 H. dentina (very pretty forms), //. thalassina, Diaiithoccia capsincola, 

 D. conspersa (very dark), Axylia jnitris, A^ntmea hasilinea, etc. On 

 June 10th I took one specimen of Euchelia iacobacae on the wing at 

 St. Cyrus. On June 29th I took a trip to Bervie, 12 miles north. 

 Lycaena astrarche var. artaxerxes was very plentiful, also Chrysophanus 

 phloeas. I also took three Argynnis aglaia, any number of Zygaena 

 filipendiUae, one Xemeophila jilantaginis, and one Eiithemonia riissida. 

 From June 17th to July 28th we confined ourselves to the sand 

 hills close at home, occasionally taking a night off to the Craigs 

 Woods (these woods are about four miles inland and very extensive, 

 and it is here that the beautiful little Linnaca boreulis grows) for Hyppa 



