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described it under Schseffer's MS. name, Anomalon fasciatum 

 (Verb. z.-b. Gesell. Wien, vii., 170 ; 1857), from specimens in the 

 Vienna Museum, bred from the south-east European variety 

 Spartii of Bombyx quercus. Mr. Marshall described the speci- 

 mens bred by Mr. R. Mitford under Smith's same MS. name 

 (A. fasciatum, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix., 240 ; 1873) ; there are two 

 males and one female in the National Collection. Taschenberg 

 described a Spanish female as Ophion septemfasciatus (Zeits. Ges. 

 Nat., xlvi., 128; 1875), but considered it the type of a new genus. 

 Dr. F. Rudow has described it as Anomalon pictum (Ent. Nach., 

 viii., 35; 1882). We have a female and the large eggar cocoon 

 from which it was bred by Sir Sidney Saunders in Corfu, it has 

 emerged direct from the Bombyx pupa. Both sexes are well 

 figured in Vollenhoven's ' Pinacographia ' (pi. 3, figs. 1-2 b) ; the 

 male from Drewsen's original specimen and the female from one 

 caught in Holland; the Banchus -like coloration is very striking. 



R A N N C II IN JUNE. 

 By A. H. Jones. 



To the entomologist resident in the South of England 

 I cannot imagine a more delightful excursion than one to 

 Rannoch, for, in addition to the novelties in the way of 

 species, nearly all the specimens he meets with differ to some 

 extent from the forms with which he is so familiar. For the 

 collector of Tortrices I cannot recommend a better time than the 

 last half of June, as I think the following account will testify. 



As accommodation elsewhere was difficult to obtain, I stopped at 

 Kinloch, and found it in some respects better than Camachgouran 

 (where I have usually taken uj) my quarters), and nearer some of 

 the best collecting ground for mountain species ; moreover, 

 Rannoch Moor, on the edge of which Camachgouran is situated, 

 is now closed to entomologists. The first day's collecting, June 

 15th, was devoted to the Black Wood. How it is changed ! 

 Large fir trees lay in every direction, in some places two or three 

 together. This dreadful devastation was the result of the storm 

 which destroyed the Tay Bridge. On this one night, I was told, 

 2000 trees were blown down, a number it could ill afford to lose. 



On the occasion of this visit to the Black Wood I only met 

 with Phoxopteryx myrtillana, which was, however, common among 



