4000 insects. 



mountain air : I am satisfied the harvest reaped must be good, if not 

 great. 



As with a sparrow in a corn-field, it will be difficult for a visitor to 

 such a rich country as Perthshire for instance, to decide whether to 

 settle in one spot, or to move about. If he adopt the former plan, he 

 will have the best chance of obtaining variety of species, and be able 

 to attend to larvae; but if he shift his quarters, he will be likely to find 

 some insects that he would not get if confined to one locality. Either 

 method has its advantages, but 1 would recommend the former. 



My recommendation to explore Scotland for its entomological pro- 

 ductions, may be addressed to her own sons even more than to the 

 southern Saxons ; for, with few exceptions, all the speciality of her 

 insect Fauna has been discovered by English visitors. Whether the 

 somewhat notorious dislike of Scotchmen for anything that does not 

 pay, has to do with the neglect of their native Entomology, I am not 

 prepared to say ; it cannot but be lamented that there is so much 

 apathy in this direction. It may be only another phase of the spirit 

 that induces most of us to neglect what is close at hand and easy of 

 acquisition, and to patronise something else, because it is brought 

 from the ends of the earth. 



The following list of Lepidoptera may be deemed pre-eminently 

 Scotch : a host of other species may be found, but I have restricted 

 myself to mentioning some of the rarest or newest. Some of our finest 

 Coleoptera have also been captured in Scotland by Weaver and others. 



Polyommatus Artaxerxes Thera variata 



Erebia Blandina Phaesyle flavicinctaria 



Sphinx Pinastri Melanippe tristata 



,Acronycta Euphorbias ? Cheimatobia autumnaria 

 Luperina furva „ filigrammaria 



Spaelotis cataleuca Emmelesia Ericetaria 

 Cryobia carnica (hyperborea, Eupithecia Callunaria 



Doub.) „ cognata 



Hadena assimilis Amphysa prodromana 



„ rectilinea Leptogramma Scotana 

 Aplecta occulta „ Parisiana 



Plusia interrogationis Peronea Caledoniana 



Scopula alpinalis Penthina Grevilleana 



Eupisteria quinquaria Sericoris Daleana 



Charissa obfuscaria Euchromia Arbutana 



Coremia munitata Sciaphila Penziana 



