THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XIX.) SEPTEMBER, 1886. [No. 280. 
IN SEARCH OF ZYGHAINA HXULANS. 
By W. H. TuGweEtt. 
On July 7th of this year Mr. Lachlan Gibb and I started by 
London and North-Western route for Braemar, our principal 
object being to try and get Zygena exulans, an insect which is 
extremely difficult to obtain, owing to its only habitat in the 
United Kingdom being situated in the midst of one of the most 
extensive and carefully preserved deer-forests of Scotland. 
Fortunately Mr. Gibb had been enabled to obtain the great 
favour of a pass for himself and friend into this forest; so that 
we started under most favourable auspices, as this vast and 
lovely domain is reserved for the wild red-deer alone, and the 
foot of a tourist or net of an entomologist rarely disturbs this 
mountain home of ‘‘the monarch of the glen.” 
My first experience of Scotch collecting commenced at 
Inverurie, twenty miles north of Aberdeen, where I went to 
spend one day with Mr. Tait, who had collected some very rare 
Lepidoptera in that district. After dinner we started off on an 
exploration of his hunting grounds, but unfortunately the day 
had grown wet, with strong wind, so that we had little chance 
of doing much amongst the Lepidoptera. All the ditches 
were full of the bright yellow flowers of Mimulus luteus, 
evidently thoroughly established there; and in a field hard by 
the pretty Galeopsis versicolor was not uncommon. Near the 
roadside the graceful Alchemilla vulgaris grew in some quantity. 
ENTOM.—SEPT., 1886. 2F 
