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comraou iu a locality divulged tli rough the liberality of Dr. White, of Perth, then 
located at Kinloch, with whom wo had several pleasant days of collecting. Plusia 
piilclirina and A. porphyrea were taken at dusk, flying near the " burn." C. gra/ininis 
was rather common at Ragwort flowers, and Q. papilioncijria fell to Mr. Buckmastor's 
net near Camachgouran. 
Day collecting proved far the most productive, and furnished many highly- 
prized insects. On tijs moors round Loch Rannoch C. Davus occurred in extreme 
abundance, and E. Blandina was captured commonly on some grassy hilla. if. 
velloda {var. canw^-i) was taken sitting on a stone wall and on old stumps ; fine 
specimens of D. fascelina and A. tincta, were found. On the rocks that apparently 
sluggish but inexplicably woi-n insect D. ohfuscaria was rather plentiful, and P. 
tntcTrograitoii iswas repeatedly seeuflyingwildly overflowers —seldom caught, however, 
till the idea suggested itself of looking for it at rest on rocks, and especially on 
stamps. A. fiimata, and E. ericetaria occurred in great numbers flying over heath, 
and towards the middle of August C. imlutata and P. fasca were taken iu the same 
way, — the former not uncommonly, while M. helgiaria was seen and missed. An 
experimental search of stumps one morning at six o'clock produced A. occulta in 
fine condition, and a repctitition of the dose on the following day was rewarded 
by Stilbia anomala. The lucky recollection of the recorded habits of the latter 
insect led to a careful search of the ground at dusk, and in a few days we had the 
pleasure of securing considerably more than a fine series. M. palustrana was 
plentiful everywhere, and S. ustomaculana occurred freely in the Black Forest ; 
while E. atomdlis, G. galbanella, and A. prcelongana were taken on tree trunks, in 
heathy places, and among birches respectively. T. ochraceella was not uncommon 
round nests of Formica rufa, and A. siinilella was to be had in plenty on fir logs in 
an old shed. 
Near the foot of Cross Craig, S. decrcpitalis occurred, and C. ericeUus was not 
uncommon on the neighbom'ing moors. At Dahl. L. cinerana was in profusion on 
the trunks of poplars, and P. Solandriana of every colour and pattern was beaten in 
plenty from birches, together with H. Paykulliana, G. scriptella, and A. Gasdartella 
and pygmoeella, the latter more frequently from sallow. 
The Black Forest produced E. hrimneata flying in swarms in the sunshine, and 
n. angustana frequent on sallow leaves. Here also were taken A. uncana, A. 
cnicana (partial to thistles), and 0. farinatella (beaten from Scotch firs). 
Much time during the expedition was devoted to working the mountains, 
which, perhaps, scarcely at that time of year repay, entomologically, more than one 
or two visits ; but those will not wonder at frequent ascents who know and appre- 
ciate the perfect beauty of Perthshire scenery — wooded valleys sweeping down 
from one's feet to the margins of lakes far bluer than Great Britain is generally 
credited with, and countless mountain ranges of every form stretching far away 
across the horizon. 
About a thousand feet above the sea E. Cassiope occurred commonly, flying 
over short grassy slopes ; and from this elevation to the tops of the mountains 
S. alpinalis was frequently roused from the ground. On the sides of streams L. 
ca:siata was so abundant that the air sometimes seemed suddenly full of it when a 
shadow passed across a rock, and was often accompanied by C. munitata. L. flavi- 
cinctaria, so far as our experience goes, does not cccur in the Rannoch district. 
