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occurred to any of us, and it was early for the species. The 

 smaller species were represented by Pyrrhosoma minium and 

 Agrion cyathigerum in fair quantity. 



A trichopteron we were all anxious to take was the very rare 

 Limnophilus elegans, but all our searching resulted in the capture 

 of two specimens only, one by Mr. Morton, the other by Mr. 

 King. As both were rather worn, probably we were a little late 

 for it. Another interesting species in this group was Apatania 

 wallengreni, which was found to be fairly common by beating 

 trees on the side of Loch Kannoch, which as yet seems to be its 

 only known British locality. The other Trichoptera included 

 Phryganea obsoleta, several on Eusg-a-Bhiorna ; Neuronia riift- 

 crus, a few on the moors, &c. ; Colpotaulius incisus, Gram- 

 mataulius atomarius, Limnophilus flavicomis, L. griseus, L. spar- 

 sus, L. centralis and L. luridus, Stenophylax lateralis, Philo- 

 potamus montanus, Plectrocnemia conspersa, and Rhyacophila 

 dorsalis. 



Among the Perlidae, we had one day probably a " record 

 take " of Isogenus nubecula, which we found in great profusion 

 by turning over stones close to the water on the loch-side ; often 

 six or seven specimens were found under a single small stone. 

 The fine Perla maxima was found in a similar way under stones 

 at the side of a broad burn which flowed close by the farm at 

 which we were stopping; and beating trees along the burn-side pro- 

 duced Chloroperla grammatica, Isopteryx torrentium, I. tripunc- 

 tata, Tceniopteryx risi, Leuctra fusciventris, Nemoura variegata, 

 N. cinerea, and others, including a Hemerobius which I have 

 been unable to determine. 



Mr. Briggs was the only one of us who paid any attention 

 to the Ephemeridae, and he had his reward in the fortunate 

 discovery of two species which have since been determined as 

 quite new to Britain. One of them {Leptophlebia meyeri) 

 attracted the notice of all of us, from its abundance near the 

 lochan Rusg-a-Bhiorna ; but of the other species (Ameletus 

 inopinatus) Mr. Briggs seems to have taken only one specimen, 

 on the shore of Loch Rannoch (see Ent. Mo. Mag. March, 1899, 

 p. 69). Tettix bipunctatus occurred on the moors, but was the 

 only orthopteron of which note was taken. 



Lepidoptera were regarded as of only very secondary im- 

 portance in the daytime, and practically only such species as 

 came in our way when working at the other orders were taken, 

 except, indeed, on several occasions when Mr. William Reid, of 

 Pitcaple, joined us. Of butterflies, Argynnis euphrosyne and 

 Thecla rubi forced attention by their abundance, the latter 

 always among bilberry, on which, at Rannoch, its larva feeds. 

 The Bombyces were represented by plenty of both larvae and 

 imagines of Bombyx callunes, and I netted a beautiful male 

 Saturnia carpini so late as the third week in June ; a large batch . 



