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ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. VI. 



[VOLUME XXXI.] 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OBSERVED DURINO A SHORT 

 BOTANICAL TOUR 

 IN WEST SUTHERLAND, THE ORKNEYS, AND SHETLANDS. 



BY FEEDEEICK J. HANBUET, F.L.S., F.E S. 



Leaving London on the evening of July lOtb, my son and I 

 reached Invershin in East Sutherland about 2 p.m. the following day. 

 The few hamlets and comfortable little inn which constitute the village 

 are picturesquely situated on the Kyle of Sutherland, a fine expanse 

 of brackish water extending many miles inland to the westward, from 

 both sides of which arise moderately high hills, clothed below with 

 oak and bii'ch, and higher up with extensive native birch woods only. 

 The object of our journey being the collection of certain Hieracia 

 for figuring, we were unable to stay for any entomological work at 

 this promising and attractive looking centre, but drove dii^ectly after 

 lunch to the inn at Oykel Bridge, a distance of about eighteen miles 

 on our way to Inchuadamph. The morning had been very wet, but we 

 were favoured with a bright afternoon, and noted during the eai'ly 

 part of our drive many bright and freshly emerged specimens of 

 JPieris hrassicce and Vanessa urticce, but being anxious to secure a 

 ^night's collecting at Oykel Bridge, we made no attempt to catch either, 

 although, as is well known, the Sutherlandshire forms of both species 

 are very marked, the specimens of the latter being often large, and 

 ""■^ep in colour. After passing Eosehall at the head of the Kyle, and 

 J leaving all traces of civilization behind, excepting the fairly good road 

 which crosses the county, we began to ascend into the dreary moor- 

 land mountain wastes that occupy thousands of square miles in the 

 inland portions of the north of Scotland. Such a region would afford 

 an instructive rendezvous for a demonstration by some of our would-be 



land reformers against the ownership by one man of a large tract of 



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