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For three clays, every time the glass cover of the jar was raised, 
tlie imago raced up the side of the jar at its very hardest, anxious to 
eftect its escape ; by the end, however, of the fourth day, it was not 
quite so lively in its movements. On the evening of the sixth day, its 
movements were confined to little jerky flights amongst the lower part 
of the jar ; and on the 7th and last day of its existence, it was only 
capable of fluttering about the bottom of the jar in a feeble state, and 
ultimately expired with its wings fully expanded. 
Notes on Coleopteraat Loch Eannoch ; including two species new to Britain, and 
description of a new Oxypoda. — Having recently visited this now well-known Ento- 
mological hunting-ground in pursuit of beetles, under somewhat different conditions 
as to weather, and at a rather later time of the year, as compared with the trip 
recorded in Vol. II. by Mr. Sharp and myself, I have hurriedly written a few remarks 
which I hope may prove not altogether uninteresting to Coleopterists who have not 
worked in the Highlands. As before, I was not left in solitude during my stay ; 
being joined soon after arriving at Camachgouran by the Rev. T. A. Marshall (from 
whose pen I can promise a notice of the Homoptera, Sfc, observed during his visit), — 
and, after a time, by Messrs. T. Blackburn and Geldart. The general insect pro- 
ductions of the district had, therefore, rather a warm time of it, all being fish (so to 
speak) that came to our nets ; though fish in the flesh was scarce, as, indeed, was 
everything eatable and potable, — barring oatmeal and water. We heard rumours, 
moreover, of other collectors at Glencoe, some 25 miles distant ; and our own 
immediate district had been already worked by Messrs. Crotch and Sharp in the 
spring ; so that it will be readily understood that the indigenous Gaels were quite 
accustomed to the ways of Entomologists : their familiarity, indeed, almost verging 
upon contempt, e.g., a spasmodic effort on my part to obtain meat from Kinloch pro- 
duced a parcel by the mail cart directed " To Vae flyman at Camachgouran." 
Of course, the majority of the Coleoptera observed were of the same species as 
we remarked last year ; some, however, then abundant, were conspicuously rare on 
the present occasion, notably the whole of the Elateridce, for which I expect an 
earlier journey must be made. En reva/nche, I found a few that I had not succeeded 
in capturing during my former visit. First of these, I may notice Bendrophagus 
crenatus (of which two were taken by my friend, Mr. R. Hislop, here last year) ; 
many visits to the saw-pit at Dall, undertaken chiefly in the hope of getting it, 
finally rewarded me with one specimen of this elegant creature, which I found 
coursing rapidly towards evening over a bare flr log, one of many stripped of their 
bark by me. 
Here also, on unbarked and licheny larches, I found Rhagium indagator in great 
profusion, running and prying about in the hot sunshine ; and was much struck 
with the great resemblance between the tints of the insect and the trees, in the 
crevices of the bark of which, especially near the ground, stragglers of Dictyopterus 
Aurora were still to be seen. This species turned up in some numbers in its old 
habitat among the damp pine chips under the logs, accompanied by its Lampyriform 
