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Aberdeen, and the discoverer of a Noctuid new to science, figured 

 and described by Sir George Hampson {Trans.Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1909, pp. 461-463) under the name of Pencephila essoni, Hampson, 

 gives laidion as generally common, but without specifying any 

 particular terrain. It is clear, however, that on the east coast, from 

 the Dee to the Tweed, as the character of the country changes from 

 moss and heath to cultivated land it becomes increasingly rare. 

 Mr. H. H. Brown informs me, that aUhough he has been told of 

 its capture in Fifeshire, he has not himself seen it. " We hâve 

 little in the shaj^je of heather moors in this country, mainly two — 

 Tents Muir at the mouth of the Tay, and the moors in the hoUow 

 of the Lomonds near Loch Leven. I hâve no doubt tifhon is hère, 

 although I hâve not met it. " 



Returning to north Perthshire my correspondent Mr. K. J. 

 Morton of Edinburgh has provided me with an interesting séries 

 of examples from Blair Athol, which romantic spot is a little to 

 the north west of the most famous of Scotch entomological resorts, 

 Kinloch-Rannoch, now accessible by railway, but down to a very 

 récent date the idtima thule of entimologists. My Blair Athol 

 maies are extremely pale, the grey-white margins invading the pale 

 tawny of both wings; there is a notable absence of oceilation, and, 

 as in examples from other Scotch local ities, the females are even 

 paler. 



The Kinloch-Rannoch race of laidion is often more deeply 

 coloured, but the taw^ny is seldom so pronounced or so bright as 

 that of the Middle British Form, though as already pointed out, 

 occasional examples suggest it. And hère again I venture to quote 

 from a description of this typical hîghland hunting ground. 



Writing in the Entomologist (Vol. XVII, p. 147) the late 

 Mr. J. T. Carrington says " Ail the best entomological work in 

 Rannoch has been donc on the south side of the lake; and if we 

 cast our eyes over towards the westward one of the hrst things 

 we note is a white cottage near the lakeside, about a couple of 

 miles along its shore. This used to be Duncan Campbell's; and 

 there stayed Weaver and some of the early collectors who visited 



