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with me, I was not able to take more than one specimen. I noticed a 
good many particularly dark forms of the latter species. Monday, the 
17th, was about as bad as it could be as regards weather — high wind and 
drenching ram all day. I did no collecting, but made an inspection of 
some of the magnificent insects which Mr. Salvage possesses, exhibiting 
some of the most striking varieties and forms from various part of 
Scotland. Tuesday, the i8th, was my last day at Rannoch, and I spent 
the day collecting with Mr. Salvage. I took a few more E. cethiops 
iplandma), the females of which were now well out and the males 
getting rather worn, and one Pieris ?iapt\ which species is very strongly 
marked on the underside in this locality. We were more fortunate 
with the larvae of JV. dictcBa this time, some aspens growing by the side 
of Tempar Burn producing a fair number. I took between 20 and 30 
in about an hour. I also took 3 larvae of S^nerinthus populi in the 
same locality, which I believe from Rannoch produce rather a good 
form of imago. C. or also occurred again here. In this place also 
Mr. Salvage took two larvae of Dicra 7 iura bifida, which, though he has 
thoroughly worked the locality for some 15 years, he has never before 
met with at Rannoch. The next day, my brother and I started on our 
homew’ard journey. We drove from Rannoch to Pitlochry and w^alked 
through part of the Pass of Killiecrankie, where E. (Bthiops was in pro- 
fusion, and a specimen of one of the large species of Argynnis dashed 
past us : it was the only butterfly of the genus I saw in Scotland, and 
was, I suppose, A. aglaia, though it flew too quickly to be able to say 
for certain. We took the train from Pitlochry to Perth, changed to the 
express to London, arriving at King’s Cross at about 8.30 the next 
morning, very tired, but very well satisfied with our first trip to Scotland. 
On the whole I did as w^ell as I expected, as I never expect to do very 
much on my first visit to a locality. The weather was not as good as it 
might have been, or doubtless the list of captures would have been 
greater. I w^as fortunate in securing the help of an entomologist 
thoroughly acquainted with the locality, which is certainly a splendid 
one, but one in which you must know where to look for the species you 
want or you won’t get them. Take E. cethiops for example ; this is 
abundant in the place where I obtained it, but is extremely local, and 
one might walk many miles in the best of weather, and never see a 
single specimen, and the same remark holds good of other species. I 
ought perhaps to have done more night work, but as Mr. Salvage, who 
sugared a few times whilst I was there, did not take anything at it, I do 
not so much regret having neglected it. In conclusion, I cannot but 
recommend Rannoch as a thoroughly good locality, and one which will 
well repay a diligent collector, and I hope that this, my first visit, will be 
the forerunner of many others. — Henry A. Hill, 132, Haverstock 
Hill, Hampstead. October ^th, 1891. 
King's Ly?m. — Up to the middle of July, the season here was quite 
past the average, and I succeeded in taking several good local species. 
I have found light in the form of gas lamps unusually attractive, 
and amongst the species taken by its means, within two or three 
hundred yards of my house, I may mention one Senta ulvce (a dark 
var.), two or three Acidalia efnutaria, Neuria saponarice, and Leucania 
stra?ninea. A day in the fens near this town, in the middle of July, 
gave my brother and me plenty of work, for no less than one hundred 
