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under this bark. Beating tops of pines, ■which had been cut off and 

 were lying in the grass, produced Ilhinomacer attelaboides, F., Ernobim 

 nigrinus, Sturm, Mcuidalis phler/watica, Herbst, &c. The afternoon 

 was spent in the Carie glen, sweeping, beating, and working the 

 numerous nests of F. rufa, but the whole work was very unproductive. 

 We were evidently too late for the ants' nests, and, though we found 

 numbers of empty Chjthra cases and a few of those of Cetonia aenea also 

 empty, and the larvfe of the latter insect, we got nothing else coleop- 

 terous. The small moth Myrmecocela ochracella, Tgstr., was found in 

 the ant hillocks. The only things Avorth mentioning from sweeping, 

 which was singularly unproductive all through our stay, probably from 

 absence of sunshine, were Hali/zia 16-;/itttata, L., and Iihafjon>/cha 

 elongata, Fall. Tuesday, the 26th, was given up to another day on the 

 hills, this time on the north side of the Loch, here w^e found most of 

 those which had turned up on the first day, and, in addition, we got 

 under small shingle by the side of a mountain torrent Cruptohypnus 

 dermestoidcs, Hbst., and its variety (?) i-guttatiis, Lap., in plenty, and 

 one specimen of Oxypoda rupicola, Eye, with Byrrhus fasciatus, F. In 

 deer dung on these liill slopes we obtained Aphodius lapponum, Gyll., 

 A. putridus, Cr., and A. depresstis, ling. On the moors here we tried 

 our only water-beetle work, on the whole with poor success, though we 

 secured a few of the northern forms, viz., Agahu>i congener, Thunb., A. 

 bipustulatns var. solieri, Aub, Hydroporus mono, Dj., and H. marginatna, 

 Duft., Agabus guttatm, Pk., was common, and a specimen of Ehantits 

 bistriatKs, Berg, turned up. On Wednesday, 27th, largely acting on local 

 advice, we cycled to the west end of the Loch and tried the saw-pit there, 

 but got practically nothing. On our way back, sweeping flowers produced 

 Dascillus cervinus, L., Telephorm obscurus, L., and TropipJtorus mercnri- 

 alis, F., &c.; we then paid another visit to the Ball saw-pit, where Mr. 

 Donisthorpe was lucky enough, knocking down a flying insect, to 

 secure Saperda scalaris, L., a beautiful insect when thus freshly 

 emerged; under chips at the pit I got Trechus rnbem, F., and Ips 

 4L-pustulatus, F. While resting and eating our lunch at the edge of 

 the Ball saw-mill stream, we saw and took Hydrocyplion deflexicvllis, 

 Miill., in plenty, it was flying in the sunshine and settling on the dry 

 tops of the stones lying in the stream. Thursday, the 26th, our last 

 complete day, was devoted to a search for Trichim, but though we w^ere 

 on the spot where it annually occurs in fair numbers we were evidently 

 too early for it, we found, however, in rotten birch stumps, what were 

 evidently its larvae in fair numbers ; another visit to Ball saw-mill 

 produced FJros aurora, F., fairly common under chips, and I took a 

 specimen of Sphaerites glabratus, F., several specimens of Hallomenus 

 huineralis, Pz., turned up under bark, and a few common things. 

 General collecting during our visit under stones near the Loch side 

 produced OtiorhyncJnis blandaa, Gyll., 0. maurus, Gyll., 0. muscorum, 

 Bris., and Carabas arvensis, Hbst. ; sweeping and beating at various 

 spots on the lower levels secured Helodes marginata, F., Campylus 

 linearis, L., a blue var., Corymbitcs quercits, Gyll., with the var. ochrop- 

 teriis, Steph., Sericosomns brnnnem, L., ? , Telepliorus Jignratus, Man., 

 and ab. scoticm, Shp., RJiaginm inquisitor, F., R. bifasciatiim, ¥., Elater 

 balteatus, L., &c., while sluicing at a sandy spot in a small bay on the 

 Loch produced Bledius snbterraneus, Er. Cetonia aenea we did not meet 

 with, we tried to find a Co.his»s-infected tree in the Black Wood where w6 



