Mr John MacGillivray 67 the Island of St Kilda. 69. 
account. Among the few Coleoptera picked up during my’ 
rambles, by far the most interesting are L/aphrus Lapponicus 
and Byrrhus eneus,* both recent acquisitions to the British 
Fauna. The latter occurred beneath stones in several places, 
the former only in some wet ground in a valley on the west 
side of the principal island. Carabus catenulatus and granu- 
latus (cancellatust of most authors), Elaphrus cupreus, Atopa 
Cervina, Sclatosomus eneus, Clenicerus cupreus and tesselatus, 
and Geotrupes sylvaticus, complete the list of coleoptera of 
which I preserved specimens. 
Hipparchia Pamphilus, Chareas graminis, and Plusia Gam- 
ma, were the sole representatives of the paige op that [ 
remember having observed. 
Hematopoda pluvialis, Chrysops cecutiens, and an unde- 
termined species of Tabanus, include the principal Diptera, 
with the exception of Gasterophilus Equi, a pair of which 1 
captured. 
With the common Panorpa communis I may conclude this 
brief list of insects, some of which are, however, of consider- 
able rarity. A diligent search would no doubt produce many 
more. 
Having now brought to a close these cursory remarks upon 
St Kilda, I may mention, that after a residence of only four 
days I was unexpectedly forced to hurry my departure, in 
order to take advantage of a favourable breeze that had just 
sprung up. Accordingly, at noon,-on Saturday the 4th July, 
I bade farewell to this rugged isle and its hospitable inhabi- 
tants. The huge rocky piles, and their clouds of sea-fowl, 
became every moment more and more dim, and at length were 
lost in a thick fog which enveloped us. It rained most of the 
day ; and just as we had caught a glimpse of Haskir, the wind 
shifted, night came on, and we had lost our way. The wind 
* Since writing the above, I have found this species in great abundance 
on the sandy links of Old Aberdeen. 
t The splendid C. clathratus I found to be plentifully distributed through- 
out the Hebrides, having observed it in North and South Uist, the island of 
Bernera, as well as the range of flat moors at the southern extremity of the 
mainland of Harris, associated there with C, g/abratus, 
