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locality, and nearly a mouth later in the year than it is taken iu Cuniborlaud), and, 
towards the close of July, E. Blandina occurred cominouly iu the glades of a wood 
behind Camachgourau. 
The Sphingina were represented by a solitary specimen of A. Atropos, which 
my compauion met with near Dall. 
Among the Bonibydna we captured several species, N. plantaginis occasionally 
on the Moors, and E. russula not uncommonly where wo took E. Blandina. 
The Noctum presented an unexpected blank. The average " take " at sugar 
(which we appHed to about fifty trees every night but two,) was two specimens, 
which generally were Noctua festiva or confiua, or R. tenebrosa. However, besides 
those we secured several of H. rectilinea, and single specimens of C. duplaris and 
A. tincta. The species of Aplecta were just coming out when we left. On the 20th 
of July wo " started " and missed two specimens of A. occulta. Pliisia interrogationis 
occurred commonly on all the Moors, and Mr. Geldart took Anarta melanopa (on 
the summit of Scbiehallion) and Plusia festuccB (near the foot of Cross Craig). 
Of the Geometrce we took several that pleased us. D. ohfuscata occurred not 
very uncommonly (but, contrary to its reputation, flying slowly) on the sides of 
rocky roads about Camachgourau. E. fasciaria was very abundant over the whole 
district ; F. brunneata swarmed in the Black Forest (where E. indigata also occurred); 
on the summits of Schiehallion and Grayvel (but not on Cross Craig) we took P. 
trepidaria sparingly ; on most mountains C. munitata, L. salicaria, and L. flavi- 
cinctaria were common ; near the foot of Cross Craig E. ericetaria was not un- 
frequent, and in every spot L. ccesiata swarmed in countless thousands. Besides 
these we took, in various localities, T. firmaria, E. blandiata, L. tristata, and 
C. imbutata. 
The Pyrales were not common. /S. alpinalis occurred frequently on and near 
Grayvel flying rapidly over almost inaccessible slopes, and elsewhere we captured 
Eud. lineolalis, muralis, and alpinalis. 
^ In the Black Forest Coccyx ustomaculana was taken sparingly, with Tortrix 
icterana and Ant. corticana and proilongana, and on the top of Grayvel Sericoris 
alternana fell to our lot occasionally ; where I also took a species which appeared 
to be Sericoris herbana. 
Tinea ochraceiilla was, of course, common at dusk about nests of Formica rufa 
and T. flavescentella occurred in a house. (Ecophora similella was common in a 
shed at Camachgourau, and from sallows and birches beside a mountain stream, 
we beat Argyresthia glaucinella and retinella respectively, while Argyresthia Qwdar- 
tella fell to our lot high up on the mountains. — T. Blackburn, Grassmeade, South- 
fields, Wandsworth. 
Leiskis montamts in Scotland. — I omitted to mention in the September No. of 
the Magazine that, while in Scotland, in July last, 1 took a fine specimen of 
L. montanus on the summit of Schiehallion. — Id. 
Coleoptera in Japan.— 1 found a fine Velleius yesterday disputing the sweets of 
a Cossus-burrow with an enormous hornet. My Curcidios of this season amount 
to 140 species, all taken within a radius of six miles. Collections in Japan are at 
present necessarily very local ones. — G. Lewis, Nagasaki, bth July, 1866. 
