982 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
reproducing many beautiful objects in nature, and produces results 
unattainable by other means. 
I much regret being unable to illustrate eggs of Lycaena arion, 
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 querciis, which are 
quite different in appearance from those of Callophrys rubi, and more 
nearly resemble those of Polyommatus corydon, 
EXxpnANnaTion oF Prate XI. 
Fig. 1. Eggs of Chrysophanus phlaeas, July 8th, on Rumex, from Mr. Prideaux. 
Fig. 2. Eges of Polyonmatus corydon, August 12th, on Lotus?, Abriés, from Mr. 
Tutt. 
Fig. 3. Eggs of Polyommatus bellargus, June 11th, on Hippocrepis, from Mr. 
Prideaux. 
Fig. 4. Eggs of Polyommatus icarus, June 13th, on Ononis, from Mr. Prideaux. 
Fig. 5. Eggs of Plebeius aegon, July 17th, on Hrica 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 Anthyllis vulneraria, from Mr. 
Montgomery. 
Fig. 8. Eggs of Cyaniris argiolus, May 29th, on holly, from Mr. Montgomery. 
Fig. 9. EHges of Callophrys rubi, June 11th, on Rhamnus catharticus, from Myr. 
Prideaux. 
Four Weeks’ Collecting in Scotland. 
By LOUIS B. PROUT, F.E.S. 
To the entomologist who has worked 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 Horne, and later on in the day we proceeded to our 
destination, the village of Stuartfield, which is reached by a pleasant 
drive of two or three miles from Mintlaw Railway Station on the 
Great North of Scotland Railway. 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 we owe a great measure of the success of our 
holiday. On Colonel Ferguson’s great estate of Pitfour, where we had 
obtained permission to collect, Mr. Mutch was particularly at home, 
and we had only to ask for bilberry, ragwort, 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 weather, which quite 
spoiled our sport on one or two occasions. <A mere dry list of names 
of our captures would hardly prove very interesting, but I may 
mention that sugar in the woods proved very attractive, our patches 
being often literally smothered with moths, fighting for a drop of the 
coveted dainty. Of course the majority were such things as 
