gS LÉPIDOPTÉROLOGIE COMPARÉE 



capital — teeming with them at the beginning of July 1899, cind 

 examples were also netted in Glen Sligachan, Cuchullin Mts. 



Proceeding east from Invernessshire, laidion, is apparently but 

 rarely met with in Morayshire, though the county towards Elgin 

 has been diligently worked by many of our most ardent collectors. 

 In Nairn, Mr. R. Thomson in his Naiural History of a Highland 

 Paris h says that it occurs on the moors of Ardclach, but far from 

 common; in Morayshire my correspondent Mr. H. H. Brown of 

 Cupar, Fifeshire, met with it on a moor in Knockando parish, to 

 the north of Archiestown village at about 1900 ft. In Banffshire 

 Mr. Arthur Horne reports it from many peirts of the county, 

 notably at Tomintoul, Ballindalloch and Aberchirder. Also, 

 in Aberdeenshire it is wide-spread, reaching north-eastward to 

 within six or seven miles of the coast at sea level between Stoichen 

 and New Pitsligo where it is very abundant. Further south it is 

 common at Monymusk, along Deeside, and west by Gairnside, 

 and Balmoral • — the highland résidence of King George V (*) — 

 to Braemar. Indeed, nowhere in Britain apparently is tiphon 

 of the northern form commoner than on the Grampian range; and 

 in the last mentioned district Mr. Horne informs me it occurs 

 from the banks of the Dee to the top of the hill where he captures 

 Anlhrocera {Zygœnd) exulans, at about 2.5CX) ft. ; for this alpine 

 Burnet, as in Scandinavia, Aies at a relatively lesser altitude than 

 in the Alps of Central Europe. At Pitcaple, however, the tiphon 

 are apparently intermediate between the northern and middle 

 Forms — an area of intermixture. 



Southward still, across the Grampians nito the eastern maritime 

 counties, Mr. Horne describes it as common in Glen Cova, and in 

 Kincardineshire, on Netherley Moss on! y two miles from the sea 

 at sea level • — ■ the nearest locality to the coast in whicTi he has 

 ever found it; while in the latter county Mr. L. G. Esson of 



(*) Mr. Horne this year, 1912, took a female actually on September 22 nd., 

 flying in the sunshine on His Majesty's grouse-moor opposite the Castle — a 

 record late date. 



