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under this bark. Beating tops of pines, which had been cut off and 
were lying in the grass, produced Rhinomacer attelaboides, ¥., Hrnobius 
migrinus, Sturm, Magdalis phlegmatica, 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 Clythra cases and a few of those of Cetonia aenea also 
empty, and the larve of the latter insect, we got nothing else coleop- 
terous. The small moth Myrmecocela ochracella, Testr., was found in 
the ant hillocks. The only things worth mentioning from sweeping, 
which was singularly unproductive all through our stay, probably from 
absence of sunshine, were Halyzia 16-qguttata, L., and Rhagonycha 
elongata, Fall. Tuesda;, the 26th, was given up to another day on the 
hills, this time on the north side of the Loch, here we 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 Cryptohypnus 
dermestoides, Hbst., and its variety (?) 4-guttatus, Lap., in plenty, and 
one specimen of Oxypoda rupicola, Rye, with Byrrhus fasciatus, F. In 
deer dung on these hill slopes we obtained Aphodius lapponwm, Gyll., 
A. putridus, Cr., and A. depressus, Kug. 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., Agabus congener, Thunb., A. 
bipustulatus var. soliert, Aub, Hydroporus morio, Dj., and H. marginatus, 
Duft., Agabus guitatus, Pk., was common, and a specimen of Rhantus 
bistriatus, Bere, tarned 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, i., Telephorus obscurus, Li., and Tropiphorus mercurt- 
alis, F'., &c.; we then paid another visit to the Dall 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 rubens, F., and Ips 
4-pustulatus, FP. While resting and eating our lunch at the edge of 
the Dall saw-mill stream, we saw and took Hydrocyphon deftexicollis, 
Mull., 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 toa search for Trichius, but though we were 
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 larvee in fair numbers; another visit to Dall saw-mill 
produced Mros aurora, ., fairly common under chips, and I took a 
specimen of Sphaerites glabratus, '., several specimens of Hallomenus 
humeralis, Pz., turned up under bark, and a few common things. 
General collecting during our visit under stones near the Loch side 
produced Otiorhynchus blandus, Gyll., O. maurus, Gyll., O. muscorum, 
Bris., and Carabus arvensis, Hbst.; sweeping and beating at various 
spots on the lower levels secured Helodes marginata, F., Campylus 
linearis, Li., a blue var., Corymbites quercis, Gyll., with the var. ochrop- 
terus, Steph., Sericosomus brunneus, L., 9, Telephorus figuratus, Man., 
and ab. scoticus, Shp., Rihagium inguisitor, F., R. bifasciatum, F., Hlater 
balteatus, L., &c., while sluicing at a sandy spot in a small bay on the 
Loch produced bledius subterraneus, Hr. Cetonia aenea we did not meet 
with, we tried to find a Cossus-infected tree in the Black Wood where we 
