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a splendid road, and as fast as a well-appointed trap and thorough- 

 bred could reasonably take us. 



Our valuable auxiliary at sugaring, an elderly servitor, had 

 been once again busy with the brush on some trees by a 

 willowed stream, and so we turned out, after dark, to see what 

 sport awaited us. To his quiet disgust there was nothing but a 

 few bat-like Mania maura and the intrepid X. monoglyijha. 



I have often seen Snowdon, and stood on its summit, but I 

 never had such a grand, clear view of the noble mountain as we 

 enjoyed that day. This fact, with a sudden fall of the mercury 

 in the evening, prepared us for another break in the weather 

 nest day. In the afternoon it cleared up, when, near the famous 

 Black Falls, I beat, from oak and birch, larvae of D. falcataria, 

 Cymatophora or, Notodonta chaonia, N. trimacula v. dodonea, and 

 Amphidasys strataria {prodromaria) . 



I will now quote, from Mr. Kerr's private collection, a few 

 representative insects, which will show the rich entomological 

 character of this neighbourhood: — Argynnis selene, A. euphro- 

 syne, Melitaa aurinea, Lyccena cegon, Nemeobius lucina, Sphinx 

 convolvidi (a series of over a dozen taken this September at 

 flowers of Nicotiana affinis, specially grown for the purpose), 

 Choerocampa celerio (one fine specimen, which flew into the 

 house), C.porcellus (a long series netted at honeysuckle bloom), 

 C. elpenor (a long series taken at rhododendron flowers on the 

 lawn), Macroglossa bomhyliformis (another long series, netted 

 also, if I remember rightly, at the same flowers), Sesia myopi- 

 formis, Ino statices, N. russula (a beautiful variety of Arctia caia, 

 in which the colours were substituted for each other), Pterostoma 

 palpina, Thyatira dcrasa, T. hatis, Acronycta leporina, A. ligustri, 

 Agrotis ashivorthii (unidentified, I think, until I saw it), Plusia 

 interrogationis, Hydrelia imca (a common insect), Eudidia gly- 

 phica, Brephos parthenias, Angerona prunaria (common), and 

 Melanthia albicillata (also common). 



The following day, August 10th, was a wet one, and ended a 

 most enjoyable visit. I started for home, and my kind host for 

 the moors. 



2, George Street, Chester, October 28, 1889. 



ENTOMOLOGY of ICELAND: NOTES upon a VISIT in 1889. 



By the Rev. F. A. Walker, D.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Concluded from p. 275.) 



List of Insects taken in Iceland. 



Coleoptera. 



Otiorhijnchm. Abundant. Reykjavik, Flatey Island, Isafjord, 

 Saudakrok, Stykkisholm, Arnafjord, Reykjafjord, and elsewhere. 



