T. M. MCGREGOR ON BOYS’ BRIGADE AT BALLINLUIG. 
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XII.— The Boys^ Brigade Field Club at Ballinliiig. 
By T. M. M‘Gregor, F.E.S. 
(Read 12th December, 1895.) 
Through the kindness of our esteemed President and the Officers 
of the Boys’ Brigade, I was invited to join the camp-out at Ballinluig 
during the past summer, the primary object being to interest the 
boys in Natural Science studies. As the ground was new to me, 
and there was the probability of some good records, the invitation 
was at once accepted. 
With excellent foresight, detachments of boys from the various 
companies were deputed to accompany me upon my daily outings; 
and certainly it was evident to all present in camp that a week was 
all too brief in which to take out in rotation all the willing candidates 
who were so enthusiastically anxious to accompany us, so we had 
to soothe the wounded feelings of the unsuccessful by glowing 
promises for the future. 
From an entomological point of view, the week’s work was highly 
successful, from the fact that, amongst other interesting records, we 
obtained six specimens of Saida Muelleri^ Gmelin., a bug which is 
exceedingly rare in Britain, together with some specimens of Saida 
Cocksii, a bug not previously recorded in Perthshire, but which 
appeared to be common in this locality. 
Salda Muelleri in Perthshire.— The six specimens oi Saida 
Miielleri, Gmelin., have been very kindly identified by Mr. Edward 
Saunders, F.E.S., who at first informed me that the insect was new 
to the British List; but he now tells me that, ‘ as a matter of fact, 
MiLelleri has been previously found, but has been hitherto wrongly 
identified as A. Morio, Zetterstedt. It has been taken at Aviemore 
by G. C. Champion; Scarborough by Wilkinson; Horning by G. C 
Champion. Apparently I [E. Saunders] am the only one who has 
met with the true Morio in this country, which I took at Buxton, 
on the moors, but only a very few males; and in my British 
Hemiptera I described the male Morio and female Muelleri as one 
species, under the name Morio. The two species may be known 
apart thus : Morio is more shining, almost burnished, and the elytra 
are so smooth as to show no definite puncturation; whereas in 
Muelleri there is a distinct though irregular puncturation on their 
disc. The eyes in Morio male are smaller than in Muelleri male, 
each being narrower than the intervening space between them. 
Dr. Reuter has recently published a work on the Saldae of the 
* The part within quotation marks appeared in the Annals of Scottish Natural 
History for Oct*, 1895, 254, 
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