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mygindana.) Schiff. ; E. arbntella, L. ; Sciaphila virgaurena, Tr. ; 

 Phoxopteryx inornatana, H.-S. ; P. htndana, Fb. ; Grapholitha snb- 

 ocellana, Don ; G. trimaculana, Don ; G. naevana, Hb. ; G. 

 geminana, St. ; Hypermccia angustana, Hb. ; Paedisca corticana, Hb. ; 

 Ephippiphora similana, Hb. ; Coccyx argyrana, Hb. ; C. vacdniana, 

 Pampliisia menuriana, Hb. ; Stigmonota perlepidana, Haw. ; S. 

 internana, Gn. ; Dicrorampha herbosana, Bar. ; Catoptria cana, 

 Haw. ; Trycheris aurana, Fb. ; Sinuzthis pariana, L. 



II. The following Tinese have not been recorded so far north in 

 Meyrick's " Handbook of British Lepidoptera " : Diurnea fagella, 

 Sta. ; Semioscopus avellanella, Hb. ; Tinea semifulvella, Haw. ; 

 Cerostoina vittella, L. ; C. parenthesella, L. ; Phibalocera qiiercana, 

 Fb. ; De/ i n'ss(7ria ocellana, F. ; D. ci/iella, Stt. ; D. heradiana, De 

 Geer ; Gelediia ni^ni, Haw. ; Chelaria hitbnerella, Don ; Chauliodus 

 chtzrophyllellus, Goze ; Lithocolletis junonie/Ia, Z. ; Bucculatrix 

 nigroconiella, Z. ; Gracilaria akhimiella, Scop. 



III. The following species unrecorded for so far north were 

 taken in the neighbourhood of Stirkoke, Wick, in the beginning of 

 September 1908 : Notodonta dromedarins, L. ; Thyatira batis, 

 L. ; Cymatophoraor, Fb. ; Asphaia flavicornis, L. ; Demas coryli, 

 L. ; Tapinostola fnlva, Hb. ; Triphccna janthina, Esp. ; Xanthia 



flavago, Fb. ; Selenia bilunaria, Esp. ; Hypsipetes ruberata, FIT. ; 

 Botys lutealis, Hb. ; Peronea sponsana, Fb. ; Pcedisca ophtJialinicana, 

 Hb. ; Halonota similana, Hb. 



It may be worth mentioning that 36 specimens of Dasypolia 

 temp/i, Thnb., were taken at light in Caithness between the middle 

 of September and 22nd of October, forming the greatest proportion of 

 moths taken at that time, even Pliisia gamma, L., being far inferior 

 in numbers. Epiinda nigra was also taken. DOROTHY JACKSON, 

 Swordale, Ross-shire. 



Hystriehopsylla talpse, Curt., in Forth and Tweed. - - In my 



notes on ' Siphonaptera ' in the "Annals" for 1904 and 1906, I 

 recorded this large flea from Moles' nests in several places in Mid- 

 lothian, Fife, and Peeblesshire. Since then I have found it 

 commonly in nests of the same animal in other localities in these 

 counties, and also in East Lothian and Linlithgowshire. During 

 the twelve months from February 1908 to February 1909, I 

 examined 100 moles' nests in the above five counties, and found 

 Hystriehopsylla present in about three out of every four, the number 

 in a nest ranging from two up to six or seven. The nests were 

 examined in January, February, March, April, May, and November, 

 and the flea was observed in each of these months, to which may be 

 added August, for which I have already recorded it ; so that it 

 probably occurs throughout the year. Larvae were also found on a 

 number of occasions and were specially noted on 6th February last 

 near Bathgate. The small yellow flea Typhlopsylla gracilis was also 



