8 [June, 



which the larvae feed and hibernate in any exposed situation, several 

 species of Noctuce, of which the larvse live underground, are always 

 abundant, and the country is actually rather rich in those species of 

 Tortricina which feed and hibernate entirely within the stalks or roots 

 of plants. 



It is worthy of notice, that there are a very few species which 

 have appeared unable to cope with severe cold. Lohophora viretata 

 was tolerably common here during the first three or four years of 

 which I have been writing, but after the first cold winter it became 

 scarce, and has since almost disappeared. Its favourite locality was 

 turned into a school playground and destroyed, but the decrease is 

 also observable in the casual specimens which used to be found sitting 

 on the fronts of houses, windows, gates and elsewhere all around the 

 neighbourhood, of which hardly one occurred last year. Diasemia 

 literalis has also been scarce for the last three years, but I have no 

 great fear that it is dying out, since we have found casual specimens 

 in two fresh localities. 



Pembroke : 10^ April, 1882. 



NOTES ON THE NEUROPTERA of STEATHGLASS, INVERNESS-SHIEE. 



BT J. J. KING. 



Having spent July and August of ISSO in a locality, to the 

 Neuropterous fauna of which, very little attention has been paid, it 

 has been suggested to me that I should make out a detailed list of 

 my captures for this Magazine. 



Strathglass is situated to the north of Loch Ness, being parallel 

 with it ; the Strath proper commences about nine miles from Beauly, 

 and continues for about ten miles across the country in a south- 

 westerly direction. It is for the most part about three-quarters of a 

 mile broad ; from south-west to north-east it descends in a series of 

 terraces, which are almost level, these terraces are covei'ed with small 

 water-worn boulders, all which suggest to one the idea of its having 

 been once the bed of a large lake ; this idea is further borne out when 

 the falls of Kilmorack are visited, the rocks at this place having the 

 appearance of being wrenched asunder njid hurled into the valley be- 

 low, as if the pressure of the water above had been too much for 

 them. 



The Strath is very warm, the hills rising on either side rather 

 abruptly to a considerable height, help to shelter it. The river 





