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two specimens. A. obsoletus^ Kbm.—Bankfoot, August; two 
specimens. 
Deltocephaliis abdoininalis^ Fab.—Common, and widely distributed. 
D. distinguendus, Flor.—Common, and widely distributed. D. 
sabulicola^ Curt.—Stanley, May. D. striatus, Lin.—Not com¬ 
mon. D. pulicaris^ Fall.—Bankfoot; Stanley, July and August. 
Not common. 
Allygus mixtus^ Fab.—Perth; three specimens. 
Thamnotettix prasina^ Fall.—Common. T. subfuscula^ Fall.— 
Common. 
Liinmotettix qiiadrinotata^ Fab.—Minkie Moss; Ardargie, August 
and September. Not common. L. nigricornis^ J. Sahl.—Bank- 
foot, June. L, sulphui’ella^T^XX. —Almond; Stanley, July ; three 
specimens. 
Cicadiila sexnotata, Fall.—Aldie; July; two specimens. 
Gnathoduspunctatus^ Thunb.-r-Stanley, July; one specimen. 
Allebra albostriella^ Fall.—Common throughout. 
Dicraneura variata^ Hardy.—Dupplin, September; two specimens. 
Kybos smaragdulus^ Fall.—Common throughout. 
Eupteryx atropunctata^ Goeze.—Common throughout. E. Germari^ 
Zett.—Kinnoull, July, one specimen; Minkie Moss; common 
off Scots fir in September. E. pulchellus^ Fall.—Common in 
August and September on oak. E. concinna^ Germ.—Common 
on oak; August and September. 
Typhlocyba sexpiinctata^ Fall.—Dupplin, September; one specimen. 
T. quercus^ Fab.—Minkie Moss, September; one specimen. 
[Note. — When no authority is given, the insect was taken by myself. — T. M. M ‘G. ] 
III .—A Mountain Bt'ceditig-Haunt of the Raven. 
By Lieut.-Col W. H. M. Duthie. 
(Read 22nd March, 1894.) 
One day in March we left the shore of the loch to which we had 
driven in the early morning and climbed the hill for the Ravens’ 
Crags. It was one of those ideal days which sometimes follow in 
the wake of a long wintry storm, a day which combines the sun¬ 
shine of Italy with the exhilarating air of the Scottish Highlands. 
There was no cloud in the sky, and no breath of wind was stirred; 
the ground was hard as iron, and every blade of the crisp grass under 
foot was incrusted with glittering hoar-frost; the burns and rivulets 
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