86 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



are burnt ? They rose in twos and threes at every step on the burnt 

 part, and there was not a specimen ten yards away. Yet it appeared 

 to be only recently burned, and there were no other patches anywhere 

 near — no others at all in fact that I could see. On this day I netted 

 three female JJ<i>iali(s rdleda on the wing at mid-day, apparently 

 ovipositing. This is the first time I have ever seen a " Swift" on the 

 wing by day. 



Auaitis jihu/iata occurred occasionally by day and night all over the 

 ground, and a few Euholia )iirnfiiiiaria also. I took some fine dark 

 forms of the latter species at Pitlocbrie twenty years ago, and was 

 disappointed to find them here all strictly typical. Boti/s fitticalix and 

 Pyraiista purpiiralis turned up here and there, but Crarnhus pascucUioi 

 and Scopitla (onbiniialis were respectively the only really common 

 CraDibns and Pyrale met with. 



Tanof/ra atrata [c/iaerophyUata) rather surprised me by appearing 

 each day in the meadow on the river bank, just opposite to the keeper's 

 cottage, and this completes the list of moths seen. 



The only remaining butterflies were the three common I'ierh which 

 occurred round the town, A;ilais inticac just coming out (although 

 young larvje were still on the nettles) and Cocnouynipha pawpJdliifi which 

 occurred all over the hillsides. 



It was a great holiday, and for the five and a half days we each of 

 us brought away nearly a thousand specimens. Needless to say, we 

 made no attempt at setting or even pinning, but killed with 

 ammonia and packed in Newman's relaxing tins. With the fine weather 

 and long clear evenings it is arduous work, as every'thing has to be 

 done so much later than down south. We never looked at our treacle 

 till after eleven o'clock, and when getting home about 1 a.m. one could 

 still read the paper in the open quite easily, and that without any moon. 

 Our plan of campaign was to leave home after early breakfast, get 

 over the Dee and work through the wood on to our ground by about 

 9 o'clock. We took lunch with us, getting drink from the burns (and 

 generally a bathe), returning about 5 p.m. for a big meal. We would 

 then kill our captures, slip up to the wood for //. brunneata, etc. ; 

 back to tea ; pack up the specimens in relaxing boxes, and then off 

 again for the evening about eight, finishing with a bread and cheese 

 supper upon our return in the small hours. Had we had more time 

 we should not have kept up this pace, and as it was, on the last 

 morning Mr. Galpin showed signs of crying "enough." While I 

 was having a last turn with D. oh/Kucata, and as it proved my most 

 successful (fifty picked specimens in an hour and a half), I found he 

 had been sitting chatting with the keeper and watching the flight of a 

 golden eagle. It was certainly a grand bird and well worth watching 

 — poised in mid-air, perhaps half a mile above our heads. 



We have seen the locality at its best, but I can imagine the two 

 lines of the Nursery Rhyme referring to the little girl 



" When she's good, she's very very good. 

 But when she is bad, she is horrid." 



might well apply to Braemar. Braemar I imagine could be very 

 "horrid." Taking this risk and the long journey into consideration, 

 it will probably never be over-run, but we both came away feeling that 

 with such conditions as we bad had, Braemar is hard to beat. 



