186 (January, 
miserable summer, I was fairly fortunate in weather on the whole, but the time of 
year was much against good results, and something like a month to six weeks 
earlier would have proved far better ; yet, with some allowance for these drawbacks, 
I was very contented with my spoils, of which I proceed to give a general digest. 
The Coleoptera were all but over, and my few captures were better in quality 
than quantity, comprising one Amara Quenseli, with a few specimens of Agubus 
Soliert and arcticus. 
Two or three Cychrus rostratus turned up, and Otiorhynchus monticola was 
plentiful under stones both in the valleys and on the mountain tops. A solitary 
Cicindela campestris glanced brightly in the sun, the last of a numerous company ; 
and, on some Potamogeton in the peat pools, occurred a Donacia but sparsely. Far 
up one of the numerous glens which abound in that district, lay the mouldering 
remnants of a red-deer monarch of the wild, who, with a royal generosity, had devoted 
his earthly remains to the furtherance of science, and “rich and rare” were the 
Coleopterous results to the learned doctors who investigated the said relics, and 
even I came in for a heavy bag, the bulk of which consisted of several species of 
Catops, and here and there a Spherites glabratus or Corynetes violaceus. 
Pissodes pint occurred now and then on some new fir wood paling, and I got 
one example cf P. notatus. 
In Lepidoptera, which order I especially pursued, I was tolerably syccessful. 
E. ethiops (Blandina) occurred plentifully, but was very local, it was most abundant 
in Glen Lim; C. Typhon, var. Laidion and C. Pamphilus, accompanied it, and 
frequented other spots as well, the latter being very bright and large. J. Icarus 
was on the whole the commonest butterfly, flitting everywhere. I obtained some 
fine and very dark 9 A. Aglaia, but all the males that I saw were of the usual colour. 
Several of the ‘‘ profanum vulgus’’ of Rhopalocera were conspicuous by their total 
absence or rarity, the altitude of Braemar being apparently beyond their range. 
I did not come across any of the Sphinges, but certain of the Bombyces were 
taken, among them a large young brood of the larva of S. pavonia feeding on 
heather. I beat one larva of N. dictwoides with several of L. camelina off birch. 
On some of the trees of Populus tremula, which grow by the bridge over the Linn 
of Quioch, were found, spun between the leaves, the larvze of C. or.” 
Amongst the Noctue, I may, en passant, observe that I found one cocoon of 
A. myrice on a rock, which, however, had the slight disadvantage of being empty. 
H. monoglypha (polyodon) came to sugar not rarely, and was much lighter than I 
should have expected, the dark aberration infuscata being unnoticed. On the rag- 
wort bloom I secured some very fine C. graminis, larger and darker and brighter 
than any I had elsewhere taken. The puzzling M. furva appeared at sugar. Of 
A. striyula (porphyrea) I netted a wonderfully minute specimen, The extraordinary 
swarms of N. baja were noticeable ; it, with N. augwr, outdid any other visitors to 
our saccharine bait in the proportion of fully a thousand to one. Festiva and conflua — 
ran into each other in various gradations and variety of marking. O. suspecta, with 
A. tincta, were perhaps the best of the takes at sugar; which, on the whole, was, from 
various causes, by nomeans richly attractive. The lovely genus Plusia wasrepresented 
by one specimen of chrysitis and several of interrogationis ; the last we took best by 
searching the stones in the damp, broken and rough localities they frequent ; 
while at rest on the stones they may be easily enough boxed, at least, if they are 
