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this locality. Weaver had no luxuries in those days, not even 

 such as those of a train and post-car; for it is said that he wheeled 

 his luggage in a barrow from Perth to Rannoch " (about 40 miles), 

 " and settled in that cottage on his first visit, when nearly every- 

 thing that he caught was new. " Richard Weaver was a celebrated 

 Birmingham dealer of the early nineteenth century, and a remar- 

 kable character. Among other entomological exploits he is 

 credited with the capture of Brenthïs dia in Sutton Park, near 

 Tamworth, Staffordshire, and later writers actually christened this 

 " élégant little fly ", so common on the Continent, but never 

 established m the British fauna, " Weaver's Fritillary. " 



Mr. R. Adkin, one of the most experienced of our lepidopterists, 

 sums up a séries of Rannoch tiphon as " including both pale and 

 dark examples, with various phases of the apical ocellus, extending 

 from a well-dehned pale spot with black centre, to an almost 

 imperceptible pale dot; indeed, in one spécimen this mark is 

 altogether wanting. " {Entomologist, Vol. XXV, p. 106); and this 

 is practically my expérience of the species hereabouts. But 

 Mr. K. J. Morton {Entornologïsf s Monthly Magazine, Vol. VIII, 

 p. 2) of the laidïon taken in Gleii Lochay a little to the South of 

 Rannoch Moor, of which he has most kindly presented me with 

 a séries, considers that the local race hereabouts, " has a faciès of 

 its own quite apart from ocellation... The butterfly is especially 

 abundant on a high-lying boggy tract (over 1500 ft.)... it shows 

 an extensive range of coloration on the upper side running from 

 (maies) dark brown (almost as dark as in var. philoxenus, but 

 duller in tone) through différent grades of tawny to a pale 

 bleached-looking condition (females) ; on the under side ocellation 

 may be absolutely non-existent, or highly developed reaching on 

 the hind wings to six eye spots with white pupils; the greater 

 development, however, in no way indicating an approach in other 

 respects to the typical form of tiphoji, and in the fore wings there 

 is an equally great, but not corrélative variability in the transverse 

 bar, which may be almost reduced to a wavy line, or increased to 

 a pale elongated blotch ". In the Bredalbane district, therefore, 



