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attractive species in bright sunlight by the Allt Mohr. one on 

 the wing and one just as it was setthng down fiat on a rock. A 

 second or so later and I should certainly have passed it over, so 

 closely does it resemble a patch of one of the dark incrusting 

 lichens common on the rocks. Its distribution in Scotland is 

 from the Clyde northwards. 



Ematurga atomaria, the Common Heath, was common on 

 the Witherslack mosses and in Scotland. Some of the females 

 have wings so small as to suggest that they may be moving 

 towards the apterous condition characteristic of many of their 

 sex among Geometers. 



Bupalus piniaria, the Bordered White. I took several males 

 and a female about the north end of the pine wood on Meathop 

 Moss, the males all showing the white ground colour on the 

 upper-side of the wings, in contrast with those [oib. flavescens) 

 from the New Forest and in the South of England generally, in 

 which it is yellowish. 



Selidosoma ericetaria, the Bordered Grey. This local species 

 is represented by three specimens from Witherslack Moss, July 

 14th and 15th. 



Thamnonoma umvaria, the V Moth, comes from Kinloch- 

 Kannoch, and I had the pleasure of taking Th. brunneata (the 

 Eaunoch Looper) in the Black Wood, the locality from which it 

 was originally described, though it occurs northwards from 

 Perthshire in Scotland, as well as in Northern and Central 

 Europe. 



Percoma (Aspilates) strigillnria, the Grass Wave, was very 

 abundant on Meathop Moss, and is widely distributed in Great 

 Britain. 



In conclusion, I should like to express my cordial thanks to 

 Mr. J. Davis Ward, of Grange-over- Sands, for the repeated help 

 and kindness which he showed me, a complete stranger to him ; 

 to my friend Mr. A. G. Tansley, F.K.S., for supplying an authentic 

 reference on the Black Wood of Eannoch ; to Mr. F. G. Whittle 

 for information as to ways and means at Kinloch-Bannoch ; to 

 Mr. Stanley Edwards, of the South London Entomological 

 Society, for his assistance in finding Hodgkinson's reference 

 (though I am not sure that he will agree with m}' conclusions) ; 

 and to my sister, Miss G. Lister, for her help in determining the 

 species of my collections of plants. 



Merton House, 

 Grantchester, 

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