The YOtfHG NATURALIST: 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Part 93. 



SEPTEMBER, 1887. 



Vol. 8. 



A FORTNIGHT'S COLLECTING IN ARRAN. 



EYER in my experience of collecting, have I enjoyed so pleasant a fort- 



-Lt night, as that which I spent in Arraii this summer ; the weather was 

 all that could be desired, and the same may apply to the insects. 



I was staying at Corrie, a pretty little village, situated in the north-east of 

 the Island, seven miles from Brodick, and about a mile and a half from Glen 

 Sannox, famous for its wild and picturesque scenery. The mountains are com- 

 posed of granite, rising into pinnacles of grotesque forms, and towards the 

 summit they are either destitute of vegetation or invested only with a slight 

 covering of Alpine plants and mosses. 



I arrived there on the 2nd July, after having had about four hours journey 

 from Glasgow, by rail, boat, and coach, amidst a downpour of rain, which did 

 not look very promising to begin my holidays ; however, in the afternoon it 

 cleared up a little, and being rather inquisitive to know what was to be had, 

 I put some boxes in my pocket and went to examine a few trunks, from 

 which I took Venusia cambricaria, Larentia casiata, Ephyra pendutaria (one), 

 Cidaria russata, C. corylata, and Boarmia rhomhoidaria, also one of Phlogo- 

 phora meliculosa sitting on a grass stem, the tips of both its upper wings 

 were gone, but otherwise it was in very fair condition. In the evening I 

 went up to the moor, which was a stiff climb for over half-an-hour, through 

 wet heather and brackens; here I took four Acidalia Jumata, a few Evpithecia 

 satyrata, one Cidaria silaceata, two Platypteryx lacertula, two nice speci- 

 mens of Melanippe hastata shaken from the birch, Larentia pectinitaria, L. 

 didymata, Cabera pusaria, Melanthia ocellata, Metrocampa margaritata, 

 Agrotis porphyrea, Eubolia palumbaria 3 Melanippe montanata, Campto- 

 gramma bilineata, Crambus pratellus, C. margaritellus, C. tristellus, C. 

 culmellus, and Hypermecia angustanaj were common, 



By A. ADIE DALGLISH. 



