366 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
be little doubt that the flowers of the Nettle, although they are 
specially fitted for wind fertilisation, do attract insects of more 
orders than one. I have found the flowers literally covered with 
small Beetles, and in the evening have netted among Nettles— 
Halia wavaria, Linn., Noctua plecta, Linn., Noctua xantho- 
grapha, Fb., Agrotis exclamationis, Linn.; ete. Mr. A. Adie 
Dalglish informs me that Scopula lutealis, Haw., also visits 
Nettle flowers. I have not mentioned such species as Plusia 
chrysitis, Linn., and Habrostola tripartita, Hufn., which feed on 
Nettle in the larval state, and may simply visit the plant for ovi- 
positing. 
Of the Sallow I need say little. Its attractiveness, and the 
insects which frequent it, are already known to all entomologists. 
The nectar, as I have already said, is intoxicating, and would 
seem to impede rather than to help “the grand object which 
these visits are destined to effect.” 
All my experience of Moth-collecting leads me to the conclu- 
sion that with these insects colour is a matter of little importance 
as an attraction. Given nectar, be the flower with or without 
smell, no matter how inconspicuous it may be, the Moths will find 
their way to it ; and smell alone, as in the case of the Elder, may 
bring them. But everything goes to prove that, in respect of attrac- 
tiveness to Moths, white or conspicuous flowers are hindrances, 
and not helps. 

Narrative of a Cruise in Loch Fyne, June, 1899. 
By Joun Parerson and JoHN RENWICK. 
[Read 27th June, 1899.] 
BIRDS, erc.—On the evening of 6th June this year a party 
representing the Society, and consisting of Messrs. John Robertson, 
John Fleming, Hugh Boyd Watt, and the writers, joined Mr. Bain 
and Mr. John Downes in the former’s yacht, the s.s. ‘‘ Romany,” 
at Craigmore, the intention being to have a three days’ cruise in 
Loch Fyne, and to visit a number of islets in its waters, We 

