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and Dover have appeared. A very comprehensive History of the 
British Butterflies^ which should be in the hands of all macro- 
lepidopterists, and must prove a delight to all our younger students, has 
been written by Mr. Dale, and can be obtained from Mr. Robson of 
Hartlepool. The British Noctucs. and their Varieties, vol. i., deals 
exhaustively with the early families of the group, and vol. ii. is nearly 
ready for subscribers. Mr. C. G. Barrett has a large and comprehen- 
sive work on British Lepidoptera in hand; and this meagre list appears 
to deal with all the material outside the journals. 
From this it may be seen that lepidopterists, in looking over the 
twelve months’ work, will do so with mixed feelings, and although there 
is little enough of actual scientific value to record, a few valuable 
additions have been made to our knowledge, which must prove of the 
utmost value in the advancement of our science, and help us towards 
that perfection at which we all aim, but which must, from the nature of 
our studies, take us an enormous time to reach. — J. W. Tutt. 
Notes of the Season. — A Fortnight at Rannoch. — On the 6th 
of August, my brother and I left Edinburgh, for Rannoch in Perthshire, 
which locality is probably known to all entomologists, at all events by 
reputation. It is thirteen miles from the nearest railway station, which 
is at Struan, on the Highland Railway, where we arrived at about 2.30 
in the afternoon. After a drive through magnificent scenery of moors, 
mountains and rushing rivers, we arrived at the Bun Rannoch Hotel at 
about 4.30, where we received a hearty welcome from Mrs. Macdonald, 
the landlady ; and I here take the opportunity of recommending this 
hotel to any one desirous of spending a pleasant time at Rannoch. I 
was fortunate enough to meet with another entomologist staying in the 
hotel, who very kindly informed me what was to be done at the time. 
Erebia epiphron (cassiope) was over, as also was Ccenony 7 npha typhon 
iaavus), but Erebia athiops {blandina) was just coming out, and was 
common in its special localities. He also recommended us to make 
the acquaintance of Mr. T. \V. Salvage of Brighton, who was staying 
in the neighbourhood, and whose long experience of the locality would 
greatly assist us in findii g the best localities for the species occurring 
in the neighbourhood. We did nothing the first night, except that while 
taking a short walk along the shore of the Loch before dinner, we cap- 
tured a specimen of Lareiitia ccesiata. The next morning was windy 
and showery, which condition of weather continued for the rest of the 
day. I was about starting out to try a little larva beating (the weather 
being, as I thought, too wet and windy lor imagines), when I was for- 
tunate enough to meet with Mr. Salvage, and arranged to spend the day 
with him. We accordingly started in search of Larentia fiavicinctala {rufl- 
cinctata), one of the best Geometry to be got at that time of the year 
at Rannoch. The best way of obtaining this species is by searching 
for them at rest on the limestone rocks on the mountain sides. They 
are difficult to find, as their colour almost exactly resembles the colour 
of a yellow lichen growing on the rocks. They almost invariably (so 
my companion informed me) choose the limestone rocks, and it is of 
hardly any use looking for them elsewhere. We found it much too 
windy for obtaining this species, for after careful searching on the side 
of Shiehallion for about an hour, my companion had taken 2 specimens, 
and myself none. We took, however, several fine L. ccesiata, which is, 
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