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the forest. Many of the defunct junipers are represented by 
straggling bare stems, more or less bleached, grey or silvery white. 
Some are thickly covered with lichens of various shades. Broken 
and detached stems strew the ground, and intermingle their tints with 
the variously coloured mosses and grasses in which they are em- 
bedded, giving a great variety of surface pattern, of which I shall 
have more to say presently, 
My first day, the 29th July, opened bright and promising, and 
selecting a low part between the grassy slopes on the outskirts of the 
forest I simultaneously made my first acquaintance with living Zvedza 
@ethiops and a Scotch bog, the former to my keen delight, the latter 
to my discomfort and disgust. For seeing the object of my desire 
leisurely skimming the long grass a few yards i in front of me, I made 
a sudden rush, and just at “the cricical moment, when hand and eye 
combine in making the unerring swoop, I found myself floundering 
up to the knees in black and slimy ooze, while @¢hzops jauntily flitted 
on unconcerned. It is no part of this paper to detail the language 
which escaped me at that moment, so it is not here recorded. 
Suffice it to say that when I emerged and surveyed my nether 
extremities I made a vow, which I kept to the end of my holiday, a 
much longer period than I can remember keeping any other vow so 
rashly made, and that was never to wear gaiters again while collecting 
in Scotland. Allow me one moment to digress for the benefit of 
those who may venture into the same locality. Leggings are a mis- 
take in a wet country, unless the work les among brambles and 
thickets, and are required as a protection. They soon become soaked 
in the long dewy grass, they take a long time to dry, and are a con- 
stant source of danger to health. 
course that they are used—are knickerbockers and a good supply of 
woollen stockings, changing the latter frequently. On this plan I 
worked day after day through the wettest holiday I ever spent, and 
yet never felt the slightest symptom of cold. 
But apart from this my mishap was turned to my entomological 
advantage, for I discovered that if I wanted @th7ofs I must keep 
close to the margins of the bogs and more or less hidden water- 
courses which intersected the lower parts of the valleys and open 
glades. True, in bright Fee weather the males wandered up the 
higher and drier slopes, ‘but the females were mostly taken in the 
former situation. 
Although Mr. King had taken this insect freely in the same locality 
two days previously, owing to sudden change in the weather my total 
capture on this occasion amounted to only five males. For this was my 
invariable experience, however plentiful on the wing in sunny weather, 
no sooner was the sun obscured than every specimen suddenly dis- 
appeared, and no amount of kicking or beating would induce them 
to rise. There is no doubt that they descend deeply into the long 
grass, which towards the roots, in these boggy localities, is of a dark 
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reddish brown, very similar in colour to the under sides of the wings. 
