( Vhexxv' *) 
Flowering heads of a scabious. 
Numerous fronds of a fern (? Polypodiwm alpestre), 
Tormentilla (7Z’. officinalis), and two or three Trifolium 
leaves. 
“Vast number ” of spangle galls. 
300 or more dark-brown beetles (LZ. swéwralis). 
One earwig, and 
One large (14 in. long) smooth-skinned green caterpillar, 
5. @ Shot 18th October, 1907 (3 p.m.) ; crop half full. 
Mainly heather shoots, with a good sprinkling of 
blaeberry (V. myrtillus). 
Fern fronds (P. alpestre), a few. 
“Tmmense number” of the usual small dark-brown beetle, 
and quantity of ‘‘spangle galls.” 
“The two outstanding features are the spangle galls and 
the small beetle. Almost all the birds were crowded with 
these, and, judging by my specimens, the blackgame must 
have been destroying enormous numbers of both. I don’t 
think, as regards the beetles, it is any exaggeration to allow 
300 beetles per day per bird. Ours is not a very good black- 
game ground now, and perhaps we have 300 head in all; that 
would equal 90,000 beetles per day! I was surprised to find, 
too, how little heather was eaten in most cases, despite the 
fact that the birds were in almost every case found on the 
moor and not in the woods. 
“The beetles were kindly identified for me by Commander 
Walker, and the oak spangles by the authorities at Kew.” 
Professor Poutton said that Dr. Menteith Ogilvie had 
kindly obtained specimens of the abundant hairy larve un- 
touched by the birds, and that they were undoubtedly Bombyx 
rubt. He remarked upon the interesting fact that the beetle 
Lochmxa suturalis, so plentifully devoured by the blackgame, 
belonged to the Galerucidx, a family generally believed to be 
distasteful, and certainly providing many models for mimicry. 
These particular Galerucids, however (examples of which were 
exhibited), were rather inconspicuous dark brown insects. 
Rest ATTITUDE oF Hyrta AurorARtA.—Mr. J. C. Moutton 
read the following note :—“ During the past summer I had the 
