54 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Chrysops sepuleralis, F., Theriopleetes montanus, Mg., and 

 other Tabanidse at Abepfoyle (Forth). On 3Oth June 1905, a 

 bright, warm summer day, Tabanidcz were very plentiful in a meadow 

 near Aberfoyle. Flies were not the special object of my pursuit at 

 the time, but the "clegs" forced themselves on my notice, and I 

 captured a number. On examining them later I found three species 

 of Chn'sops represented, namely, C, ctzcutiens, C. relicta, and half a 

 dozen specimens (9 $ ) of what I made out to be the rare C. sepul- 

 eralis, F., a determination in which Mr. Verrall, to whom I sub- 

 mitted a specimen, concurred. Theriopleetes was represented by 

 T. solstitialis, and a darker species, an example ( $ ) of which Mr. 

 Verrall returned to me with the name T. montanus, var. Of several 

 Tabanus sude fiats seen, one only allowed itself to be netted. Females 

 of the ubiquitous Hcematopota pluvialis were, of course, abundant, 

 but only one male was got. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Lepidoptera from West Ross-shire, etc. The following is a 

 list of Butterflies and Moths taken by me this year at Swordale, and 

 which, according to Barrett's " British Lepidoptera," have either 

 not been found so far north before, or in East Ross : 



Chrysophanus phlceas, L. ; Cotnonympha pamphihis, L. ; Demas 



coryli, L. ; Posdlocampa populi, L. ; Trichiura cratcegi, L. ; Centra 



furcula, L. ; Notodonta dictaa, L. ; N. ziczac, L. ; N. dromedaries, L. ; 



Ptemstoma palpi na, L. ; Thyatira bat is, L. ; Asphalia flavicornis, L. ; 



Acronycta rumids, L. ; Triphccna jantliina, Esp. ; Noctua neglecta, 



Hb. ; Polia clii, L. ; Miselia oxyacantlm, L. ; Miana strigilis, Clerck ; 



Panolis piniperda, Panz. ; Xanthia cerago, Schiff. ; Phisia bractea, 



Fab. ; P. pnlclirina, Haw. ; Euclidia mi, Clerck ; Hypena, pro- 



boscidalis, L. ; Rumia cratcegata, L. ; Cabera pusaria, L. ; C. 



exantliemaria, L. ; Fidonia carbonaria, L. ; Numeria pulverana, L. ; 



Selenia illunaria, Hb. ; Metrocampa margaritata, L. ; EUopia 



fasciaria, L. ; Biston betularius, L. ; Phigalia pilosaria, Schiff; 



Lomaspilis marginata, L. ; Anticlea badiata, Schiff ; A. derivata, 



Schiff; Coremia multistrigaria, Haw. ; Emmelesia alchemillata, L. ; 



Cidaria psittacata, Schiff; C. miata, L. ; C. corylata, Thnbg. ; C. 



suffumata, Schiff; C. silaceata, Schiff; C. prunata, L. ; C. fidvata, 



Forst. ; T/iera Jirmata, Hb. ; T. variata, Schiff; Hypsipetes ruberata, 



Frr. ; H. imphtviata, Schiff; Oporabia dihitata, Schiff; Carsia im- 



butata, Hb. ; Eubolia palumbaria, Schiff; Eupitheda lariciata, Frr. 



At the end of September I found the following species at 

 Dornoch, Sutherland : Platypteryx lacertinaria, L. ; Hadena pisi, 

 L. ; and also obtained larvae of : Cidaria corylata, Thnbg. ; Cabera 

 exanthemaria, L. (2); Platypteryx lacertinaria, L. (i, off birch); 

 Cymatophhora duplaris, L. ; Notodonta dromedarius, L. ; Hadena 

 pisi, L. (2) ; Rumia cratczgata, L. (2) ; Lomaspilis marginata, L. (a 

 few, very young) ; and Eupitheda laridata, Frr. (from larch and 

 Scotch fir). DOROTHY JACKSON, Swordale, Evanton, Ross-shire. 



