14 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Dalmally and Oban, and is now accessible by tbe extended line 

 of rail between the last-mentioned places. The sceneiy is most 

 impressive between Dalmally and Taynuilt, which is approached 

 through the wild and gloomy Brander Pass, — 



" Where rocks were rudely heaped and rent 

 As by a spirit turbulent," 



and through which flows the short but very picturesque River 

 Awe, connecting Lochs Awe and Etive, a stream dear to anglers, 

 but which proved singularly unproductive last season ; to this 

 fact my brother and many fishermen can testif3\ 



I commenced operations with my net by tbe margin of the 

 river, on whose farther shore Ben Cruachan stands majestic. 

 Here in a succession of fields I found Tanagra chcsropliyllata 

 and Emmelesia albulata very plentiful ; and in one limited space 

 Procris statices abounded. Farther on, where the ground was 

 uncultivated, JMelanippe tristata and M. subtristata rose in 

 numbers as I pushed through the ferns ; and a little promiscuous 

 beating among stunted bushes overhanging the river produced a 

 few other species of Geometrse, viz., Acidalia fumata, Numeria 

 pidveraria, and Cidar'ia corylata. Owing to the want of variety 

 in foliage the woods round about did not prove very productive ; 

 but following the course of the little River Nant, which meets the. 

 Awe at Taynuilt, — and is by the way a capital trout stream, — I 

 devoted several dull mornings to beating the copse wood for two 

 miles up stream, and thus made several additions to my list of 

 Geometrse, but none of importance : Ephyra punctaria, Mela- 

 nippe hastata, Cidaria popidata, and some pretty forms of Boarmia 

 repandata, intermingled with commoner species, such as Larentia 

 pect'mitaria, Loinaspilis marginata, and Melanippe ocellata, were 

 the result of my labours, — an insufficient reward for the invariable 

 arm-ache and occasional drenching with which I returned to the 

 hotel. Just before leaving the locality I discovered a birch wood 

 where Metrocampa margarltata abounded, as many as five speci- 

 mens responding on one occasion to a single blow of the beating- 

 stick. Evening netting procured for me specimens of Emmelesia 

 affinltata and E. hlandiata, Larentia salicata, Miana arcuosa, and 

 other common species of Geometrre and Noctuse. 



The dearth of butterflies seemed remarkable to me after my 

 southern experience. Of this group Argynnis Aglaia proved the 

 most abundant and interesting. On June 1 8th I came upon 



