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dozing, but in sunshine a mere shadow will send them off into space with their 
darting flight. I took onelarva of B. parthenias. C. elinguaria, to turn to the 
Geometre, was not rare, and H. wavaria turned up. F. brunneata might be met 
with in the birch woods, but was local, and apparently not very abundant. 
L. didymata was a perfect pest, and, by wickedly assuming dubious shades of colour, 
led me some wild goose chases, for which I can hardly say I blessed it; cesiata 
was almost equally abundant, though less ubiquitous: both olivata and viridaria 
(pectinitaria) occurred. HE. sobrinata swarmed amongst the junipers, whence also 
the larvee of T. juniperata might be beaten out. MM. bicolorata (rubiginata) was 
excessively abundant among the alders fringing the banks of the Cluny, and I got 
some nicely marked specimens, with one of ab. plumbata. C. immanata presented 
a wonderful show of varieties, from very dark to almost white ; and popilata was 
equally common and variable, some of the specimens being almost unicolorous (ab. 
musanaria, F.). After one or two futile searches, we at last lighted on a locality for 
the beautiful C. paludata (imbutata), where it was not by any means rare. I met 
with but few Pyralites, S. alpinalis being the best ; and among the Crambites the 
only noticeable was C. margaritellus, which was abundant in the localities frequented 
by Erebia ethiops. From these notes, it will be seen that nothing very wonderful 
crossed my path ; but the captures made at an earlier portion of the summer will 
render Braemar famous as a northern Paradise for the brethren of the net, when 
the wonders are disclosed. 
In passing the Hymenoptera, I would only observe that the colonies of Formica 
rufa possessed the largest cities I have seen in this country, and that if the 
weary entomologist ventured to rest himself near any wood, he was abruptly 
and sharply reminded that he was trespassing on the private property of these 
teeming multitudes ; and further, I would recommend any fearless entomologist to 
try the flavour of fresh formic acid, which he may perhaps like. 
I captured some of the Newroptera which came my way, and failed to secure 
what must, from the place where it occurred, have almost certainly been, #schna 
borealis. Who ever did net an A’schna, save by a “ fluke?” Of the Trichoptera, for 
the names of which I am indebted to Mr. McLachlan, I obtained several species, but 
none of any great rarity.—W. Doveras Rosrnson, Christ Church, Oxford, 19th 
October, 1871. 
Occurrence of an extraordinary variety of Huperia fulvago near London.—I have 
to record the capture of a striking variety (a male) of the above species at sugar 
in Highgate Wood, on August 13th, 1870, by Mr. R. G. Burry and myself. 
Contrary to the usual rule in such cases, this southern example is much darker 
than the typical form which occurs in its ordinary and more northern localities. 
Iam informed that the specimen taken by Mr. Stainton at Lewisham, in 1846, 
approaches it, but is neither so fine, nor so deeply coloured. 
The ground colour of the fore-wings is a warm buff, irrorated with minute 
fuscous atoms. A fuscous “central shade” which runs from the reniform stigma 
to the inner margin, is separated in the middle, and forms, with the costal spot 
which joins the reniform stigma, three very distinct, equidistant, fuscous shaded 
blotches. The orbicular and reniform stigmata are respectively light and dark 
orange. The hind-wings are whitish, with two rather indistinct fuscous bands 
towards the hind margin. Thorax and antennze warm buff, body whitish. 
