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reproducing many beautiful objects in nature, and produces results 

 unattainable by other means. 



I much regret being unable to illustrate eggs of Lycaena avion, 

 some continental specimens of this species, sent me by Dr. Chapman 

 from Switzerland, having been injured during transit by post. At the 

 time of writing I am photographing ova of Zephyrus quercits, which are 

 quite different in appearance from those of Callophrys ruhi, and more 

 nearly resemble those of Folyommatus corydon. 



Explanation of Plate XI. 



Fig. 1. Eggs of Cliry&ophanus plilaeas, July 8th, on Ruviex, from Mr. Prideaux. 

 Fig. 2. Eggs of Folyommatus corydon, August 12th, on Lotus?, Abri^s, from Mr. 



Tutt. 

 Fig. 3. Eggs of Folyommatus hellargus, June 11th, on Hifi^ocrepis, from Mr. 



Prideaux. 

 Fig. 4. Eggs of Folyommatus icarus, June 13th, on Ononis, from Mr. Prideaux. 

 Fig. 5. Eggs of Pleheius aegon, July 17th, on Erica cinerea, from Mr. Prideaux. 

 Fig. 6. Eggs of Nomiades semiargus, July 31st, on red clover, Guarda, from Dr. 



Chapman. 

 Fig. 7. Eggs of Cupido minima, June 27th, on Antliyllis vulneraria, from Mr. 



Montgomery. 

 Fig. 8. Eggs of Cyaniris argiolus, May 29th, on holly, from Mr. Montgomery. 

 Fig. 9. Eggs of Callophrys ruhi, June 11th, on Rhammts catharticus, from Mr, 



Prideaux. 



Four Weeks' Collecting in Scotland. 



By LOUIS B. PROUT, F.E.S. 

 To the entomologist who has Avorked only within a comparatively 

 restricted area, there is something particularly charming about a first 

 visit to a really distant collecting ground, with a fauna which is quite 

 new to his experience. The fact that I enjoyed this pleasure during 

 my recent holiday, with the added charm of the genial companionship of 

 my valued friends, Mr. J. A. Clark, Dr. Sequeira and Mr. J. P. Mutch, 

 during the first fortnight, must be my plea for writing a short note 

 which I am fain to confess contains nothing in the nature of discovery 

 or original observation. The morning of Friday, July 27th, found us 

 in Aberdeen, where we were hospitably welcomed by our kind friend 

 Mr. Arthur Home, and later on in the day Ave proceeded to our 

 destination, the village of Stuartfield, which is reached by a pleasant 

 drive of two or three miles from Mintlaw Kailway Station on the 

 Great North of Scotland Eaihvay. At the "Commercial Hotel" at 

 Stuartfield we were so fortunate as to find in the proprietor, Mr. James 

 Mutch, not only an attentive and obliging host, but also a naturalist of 

 considerable ability and exceptionally intimate knowledge of the 

 country, to which Ave owe a great measure of the success of our 

 holiday. On Colonel Ferguson's great estate of Pitfour, Avhere we had 

 obtained permission to collect, Mr. Mutch was particularly at home, 

 and Ave had only to ask for bilberry, ragAvort, heaths, sandhills, or 

 what not, in order to be taken to an ideal spot for the object of our 

 quest. With these advantages, it is not surprising that we made a 

 good bag, notwithstanding adverse conditions of Aveather, Avhich quite 

 spoiled our sport on one or tAvo occasions. A mere dry list of names 

 of our captures would hardly prove very interesting, but I may 

 mention that sugar in the Avoods proved very attractive, our patches 

 being often literally smothered with moths, fighting for a drop of the 

 coveted dainty. Of course the majority Avere such things as 



