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number of specimens of the Orange-tip Butterfly (Euchloe cardamincs) 

 flitting about in the wooded valley of the burn of Aberlour, Spey- 

 side. The species is recorded for the province of Moray, but is 

 local and uncommon. I never saw the butterfly in that spot before, 

 and nowhere in this province have I found it in such numbers. 

 HENRY H. BROWN, Elgin. 



Pamphilius erythrocephalus at Dalguise. On Saturday, i2th 

 May last, in company with two brother collectors, I visited Dalguise 

 Hill in brilliant weather. My attention was drawn to a beautiful 

 sand-fly, of a bronze-blue colour, with red head (a female), resting on 

 the heather immediately under a Scots fir, one of two isolated trees. 

 The insects were found in profusion, both on the heather (but 

 only immediately under said trees) and on the trees themselves. 

 Fully fifty specimens were boxed, but hundreds could have been 

 taken. The insects are apparently very ferocious, as five specimens 

 which had unfortunately been boxed together had literally torn each 

 other to pieces. On reference to Cameron's "Monograph of the 

 British Phytophagous Hymenoptera,' 1 vol. iii. pp. 93-94, I find the 

 species to be Pamphilius erytkrocep/ial/ts, Linn., and the following 

 extract from that work may prove of interest : " Rare. ' Near 

 Bristol and in the West of England' (Stephens): ' Rannoch, Pit- 

 lochry' (A. Beaumont)." "According to Hartig, the larvae live on 

 Pinus sylvestris, each in a nest of silk spun by itself, of a roundish 

 form, and about the size of a hazel-nut, plentifully garnished with 

 the pellets of grass. Generally the larvce attach their cocoons to 

 the twigs of last year's growth, and as a rule near the ground. 

 There are usually two or three or more larvae on the same twig. 

 They are found during July and August, and pupate in the earth. 

 The eggs are laid in the needles of last year's growth."- -T. M. 

 M'GREGOR, Perth. 



Odonestis potatoria (L.) in South Perth. While spending a 

 few days at Callander in the beginning of May last (1894), I found 

 five larvae of the Drinker Moth on a moor about two miles out on 

 the way to Port o' Menteith. The insect has not, so far as I can 

 ascertain, been previously recorded for " Forth." Dr. Buchanan 

 White tells me that, though he has had good evidence of its 

 occurrence in Perthshire, he has never seen it himself. I may add 

 that the larvae were abundant about Oban in April. The only other 

 interesting lepidopterous insect seen at Callander was the Green 

 Hairstreak (Thecla rubi\ of which I captured a couple on i2th May. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



List of the Rarer Spiders of Renfrewshire. Having for a 

 number of years given a little attention to the spiders of Renfrew- 

 shire, and as my captures amount to about 150 species, most of 

 which have been kindly named by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, a 



