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usual, was found among burnt heather, which reminds me that, on 
returning from one of our expeditions to the mountain, we came 
upon a small cup-shaped hollow near the burn overlooked by a group 
of grand old pines, it was filled with Ling which had evidently 
escaped all fires during the lifetime of the oldest inhabitant; we 
plunged into it, when to our surprise the ling closed over our heads! 
We did not catch much in that hollow, indeed it was no easy matter 
to penetrate the dense growth. 
Where Vaccinium prevailed over Erica and Calluna we found a 
few Mixodia palustrana 9 and many Coccyx ustomaculana, together 
with a few of a Lithocolletis which we attributed to vacciMdla , 
although Mr. Stainton said in a letter that the determination was 
“ not free from doubt/ 1 
In the wetter parts of the higher moorland the Large Heath, 
Coenonympha dams (i typhon ), was abundant, and on the same ground 
(even up to 2000 ft.) Nemeophila plantaginis gave us many a 
headlong chase, in one case leaving the writer stretched prone 
upon the bog with great clatter of pill-boxes. In such places 
Bactra (?) lanceolana simply swarmed, but they were so small and 
highly coloured as to suggest that they could scarcely be conspecific 
with the large pale obscurely marked form that was to be found in 
the meadows by the loch side. 
Hear a burn below Grayvel we took a solitary Coccyx taedana 
(finitimana), and not far off a few Coremia munitata, which seem¬ 
ingly preferred stony ground. On the actual slopes of the mountain 
Tortrix viburnana was common, as indeed it was on the higher moors 
generally; on the same slopes at our first visit Mixodia schulziana 
was abundant, to be replaced later on by swarms of the pretty little 
Pamplusia monticolana ( mercnriana ). 
The rugged summit itself seems to owe its virtues to the fact that 
its stony head is but sparsely clothed with grass and moss, in place 
of the denser growth of heath and bilberry with which its neighbours 
are covered. Hard work stumbling about on this rough terrain 
yielded a few specimens of Psodos trepidaria (coracina), an insect 
hard to see and harder still to catch. Small and dark specimens of 
Sericoris daieana (alternana ) were to be had in plenty, and a very 
finely marked Ampkisa gerningiana was secured. Crambus furcatellus 
was tolerably common, and we were fortunate in securing a fair 
number of Scoparia alpina (paralis ), a distinctly “ good thing/’ A 
few Mixodia schulziana also reached the summit, as well as the tiny 
Lithocolletis (?) vdcciMella. Among the bilberries half-way up Cidaria 
populata was very abundant and Scapula alpinalis not uncommon. 
