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to the schoolhouse, where we soon learned that he was as much delighted with 

 the picturesque little village as we were ourselves. The evening being a 

 favourable one for work, we started for the road leading alongside Barmore 

 Hill, where we intended having a good night's collecting. Insects were 

 flitting about in any number, and before long we had filled all our boxes. 

 Fine specimens of H. hectus were hovering in great profusion over almost 

 every fern, some of them being strange varieties. Moths were so plentiful 

 that we had to net on mere chance, and it was only when we commenced to 

 pin our captures in the morning that we discovered what species we had 

 taken. A careful record of our daily individual captures was kept, and 1 find 

 on consulting it that the following species were taken on that evening. — 

 iV". mundana, P. lacerlula, M. margaritata (very common), C. populata, 

 immanata (the white banded form), M. ocellata, B. rhomboidaria (common, 

 but mostly rubbed), L. marginata, E. albulata, A. aversata, L. didymata, 

 pectinitaria, C. munitata, propugnala, T. batis, L. impura, X. rurea, N. 

 xanthographa, rubi, P. V-aureum, H. grisealis, H. stagnalis, npnphaalis, 

 B.fuscaliS) C. pratellus, pascuellus, B. lanceolaua, G. campoliliana, E. augus- 

 tana, C. hohenwarthiana, AI. schulziana, and a number of species unknown 

 to us. Although our captures were mostly of insects of little note, yet we 

 were satisfied to know that moths were so common, and we hoped to take 

 some good things before long. 



Sunday was a day of rest. The Highland people are very strict on the 

 observance of the Sabbath day, and as the rain was falling heavily we had no 

 special wish to offend their Sabbatarian susceptibilities. In the afternoon I 

 attended the service at the Carsaig Free Church, a queer old world sort of 

 building, with a still queerer box shaped pulpit, and a small but devout con- 

 gregation, many of whom no doubt had walked many miles in the heavy rain 

 to church that day. There was a sincere air of earnestness about the wor- 

 shippers that you seldom, or indeed never, find in our large city churches. 



Monday turned out a very fine day. In the forenoon we paid a visit to the 

 moor, and took a few specimens of Davus, but the strong wind that was blow- 

 ing made it very difficult to net anything. We had made up our minds to try 

 sugaring, but some difficulty in procuring the necessary materials, the only 

 shop in the place not keeping treacle. A good quantity was at last procured 

 from the inn, and this mixed with a due proportion of whisky, was our 

 attractive composition. It was at first decided to sugar only a few trees to 

 see if moths would come to it, and after " painting " a few trunks alongside 

 Barmore Hill, we went along the road netting the insects as they flitted near 

 the wood. In addition to most of those species which we took on the Satur- 

 day night, we captured G. papilionaria (one), a few 0. cambricaria, & 



