54 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Lucania pallens, Miana literosa, Noctua augur, N. baja, Am- 



phipyra tragopogonis , Mania typica, Calymnia trapezina, Orthosia lota, 



O. macilenta, Dianthcecia capsincola, D. cucubali, Epunda nigra, 



Agriopes aprilina, Apkcta herbida, Hadena protea, Gonoptera libatrix, 



Eugonia alniaria, Acidalia aversata, Hybernia rupicapraria, H, 



progemmaria, H. defolaria, Anisopteryx ascularia, Eupithecia sub- 



fulvata, E. castigata, E. fraxinata, E. vulgata, E. absinthiata, E. 



abbreviata, E. togata, Melanthia rubiginata, Pyrausta ostrinalis, 



Botys forficalis, B. lutealis, Hydrocampa symph&lis, Platyptilus 



ochrodactylus, P. gonodactylus, Amblyptihts acanthodactylus, A. 



punctidactylus, Aphomia sodella, Pandemis corylana, Steganoptycha 



ramella, Lithographia cinereana. 



An exceedingly wet week-end spent at Balmacara, West Ross, 

 in June, resulted in the capture of the following species, in the 

 larva state, all which appear to be unrecorded for that district : 

 Calymnia trapezina, Amphipyrata tragopogonis, Agriopes aprilina, 

 Plusia festucce, Hypcena probosddalis, Phigalia pilosaria, Eupithecia 

 abbreviata, Cidaria fulvata, Hybernia defolaria. The year before, in 

 June 1906, I took one imago of Phytometra ana. 



At Dornoch, at the end of September, I got larvae (also un- 

 recorded) of the following : Biston betularia, Notodonta dictaa, 

 Eupithecia centaureata, E. absinthiata. 



A few days spent in the neighbourhood of Wick in September 

 resulted in the following still more northerly records : Smerinthus 

 populi, Netodonta ziczac, Rumia cratatgata, Odontopera bidentata, 

 Cabera exanthemaria, Ettpithecia fraxinata, Hypsipetes implumata, 

 Cidaria miata, Cidaria corylata. 



An afternoon's beating in some oak woods close to Inverness 

 was rewarded with one larva of Nola confusalis, and one larva of 

 Sarothripa revayana, together with many other commoner species. 

 DOROTHY JACKSON, Swordale, Ross-shire. 



Amblyptilus punetidaetylus. On 4th September 1907, the 

 gardener of a neighbouring estate drew my attention to the numbers 

 of this small moth which were resting on the inside of the window- 

 pane in his toolshed. Much puzzled at finding this insect in such 

 a strange situation, I searched round the shed for some clue to its 

 entry, and came upon a basket of cowslips which had been kept for 

 seed, and noticed that the handle and sides of the basket, as well 

 as the withered stalks, had a number of pupae of this species 

 attached to them. On further examination I found the seed-vessels 

 to be almost all bored through by the ravages of the larva, nothing 

 but the larval excrement being left in its place. Surely this is a new 

 food-plant of this species. Barrett only mentions the flowers of Stachys 

 sylvatica and Salvia glutinosa, and on the Continent on the seeds 

 of Acquilegia vulgaris. DOROTHY JACKSON, Swordale, Ross-shire. 



