NOTES ON BOLETOBIA FULIGINAEIA. 153 



meets with, for nearly all bear traces of local variation. The 

 younger visitors must not expect to fill all their boxes every 

 time they go out, for everything depends on weather in Eannoch. 

 Given warm sunshine and fair wind it is not possible to set all 

 the insects one may take, so prolific is the locality ; but, on the 

 other hand, if cold and wet, which is more frequently the case, 

 matters are precisely the reverse. As a matter of experience I 

 may mention that I have seen in Eannoch five weeks of 

 continuous wet and cold, and during those weeks I have not 

 seen as many dozen specimens of any kind of Lepidoptera. The 

 year 1875 was a dreadful year ; the whole of May, June, and 

 part of July being more or less wet ; and August almost con- 

 tinuously so. Should, however, the weather be propitious, no 

 entomologist will regret a visit to Rannoch. 



Savage Club, Savoy, London, June 24, 1884. 



NOTES ON BOLETOBIA FULIGINABIA ; WITH A 

 DESCRIPTION OF ITS LARVA. 



By W. H. Tugwell. 



A few weeks since my friend Mr. J. Trimmer Williams, of 

 Foots Cray, kindly brought for my inspection six very fine 

 specimens of Boletobia fuliginaria, which he was interesting 

 himself to sell for Mr. Edward Upton, of Park Pioad, Bermondsey. 

 Mr. Williams told me that he knew the history of the specimens, 

 and that they could be depended on as genuine native London 

 examples of this rarity. The simple fact of Mr. Williams 

 offering them to his friends as genuine was in itself a good 

 guarantee, and was sufficient to tempt me to obtain a pair. 

 These I placed in my cabinet with every confidence, which 

 opinion has since been confirmed beyond suspicion. 



Mr. Williams gave me at the time a short history of them, 

 which I will here detail. I cannot do better than quote from 

 one of his letters to me, in which he says : — " Some few years 

 since I was looking over some insects taken by Mr. Upton, when 

 he called my attention to what he supposed was a variety of the 

 common Fidonia atomaria, and which he kindly offered to give 

 me ; but I declined to accept it, telling him it might be of some 



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