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scenery of Inchnadamph. Numerous specimens of Larentia ccesiata, 

 fairly darkly banded forms of Camptogramma hilineata, and an 

 occasional Gidaria truncata (russata) flew up as we passed along the 

 base of the rocks. At the angle immediately over the hotel, where 

 the cliffs curve away to the north, the turf on the ledges was almost 

 entirely composed of the very rare Carex rupestris, All. Heavy rain 

 again fell and prevented any further collecting. 



The following day the clouds were higher, and, skirting Loch 

 Assyut by the Lochinver road until we reached the ruined castle, we 

 turned towards the mountains, ascending the right hand bank of the 

 Calda burn. A gleam of sunshine brought out a number of Lyccena 

 Icarus, nearly all the under-sides of which were very pale, and with 

 relatively small spots ; a form which, so far as my limited experience 

 goes, is abundant in N.W. Ireland, as well as in N.W. Scotland, and 

 differs considerably from the usual southern type. A specimen that 

 I collected near the same locality four years previously is beautifully 

 streaked with bluish-black at the base of the hind-wings, and the 

 usual spots very indistinct, almost obsolete. The same year, but a 

 few miles nearer Lochinver, I found Coenonympha Typlion and Argynnis 

 Aglaia in great abundance ; the females of the latter being very large 

 and so richly coloured as to bear to this species almost the same 

 relation that the var. valezina does to A. Paphia. Beyond a few L. 

 ccBsiata, and a solitary specimen of Eupithecia nanata that we kicked 

 up in the wet heather, we found no more insects during our long climb 

 into the mountains, cloud and occasional showers preventing anything 

 flying. 



The waterfalls in the higher parts of this wild and little known 

 burn are of singular beauty. The atmosphere being very clear we 

 had a tine view of the Outer Hebrides in the distance. Our descent 

 was by another fine burn, rejoicing in the name of the Allt Poll na 

 Droighinn, where the only incident of interest was our suddenly sur- 

 prising a brood of young kestrels that could only just fly. Whilst 

 the young birds fluttered away short distances, the parents feigned 

 being wounded, and tumbled about in the heather some thirty yards 

 from us, uttering piercing shrieks, and doing all in their power to 

 draw our attention from their offspring. Just before reaching the 

 hotel, and close to the junction of the aforesaid and Traligill Burns, 

 we came to a luxuriant meadow, in which were hundreds of Emmelesia 

 albulata flying lazily for short distances whenever we were favoured 

 with a brief gleam of sunshine. A few were fairly strongly marked, 

 but we found none at all approaching the extreme Shetland forms. At 



