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Tynefield, August 1894, in the exact spot where I used to see 

 them thirty to thirty-five years before ; one, South Morningside, 

 July 1896 ; also at Pettycur and Aberlady. S. janira is now 

 also mainly a coast insect with us. I never see one, for 

 instance, on or near the Pentland Hills; in August 1895, 

 however, I met with it in some numbers about Falkland in 

 the centre of Fife. S. hyperanthus. Have not seen one in 

 the Lothians for many years ; used to take it at Biel and 

 Tynninghame. Common at Lauder in 1895 (Mr. D. H. 

 Low); Aberfoyle, 1896. Cxnonympha typhon ( = davus}. 

 Took a specimen, which I still possess, on moor by the 

 roadside immediately to the south of Leadburn, in July 

 1868. 



Theda quercus. Captured one at Bracklyn Falls, near Callander, on 

 3ist August 1877, and saw what I believe was another near 

 Linlithgow in the summer of 1887. T. rubi. Aberfoyle, 6th 

 May 1872, one; Callander, i2th May 1894, several; Aber- 

 foyle and neighbourhood, April (from 24th) and May 1896, 

 abundant. 



Lycccna astrarche, v. Artaxerxes. It was on the coast of Fife, in July 

 1867, that I first made the acquaintance of this interesting 

 little butterfly, and I have seen it there on many subsequent 

 occasions, the last being on 26th June 1895, when dozens 

 were to be seen on a certain flowery bank. In June 1872 I 

 captured a specimen (in which the band of red spots is un- 

 usually well developed on the upper surface) on the Pentlands 

 above Dolphington, and on 8th July 1890 I met with a few 

 near Peebles. I have frequently looked for it in its historic 

 locality on Arthur's Seat during the last twenty-five years, but 

 without success, and believe it to be now extinct there. Mr. 

 Andrew Wilson, however, found both larvae and perfect insects 

 in plenty in 1868. L. minima ( alsus). On sea braes, Fife; 

 usually about over when the last is at its best in 1895 only a 

 few, all more or less worn, were to be seen on 26th June when 

 Artaxerxes was abundant and in perfection. 



HETEROCERA 



SPHINGES. 



Acherontia atropos. My specimens of the Death's-head are from 

 the following localities: Pitcox, 1861; Oxwellmains, 25th 

 September 1886; Musselburgh, 2 9th June 1891; and Hare- 

 law, near Longniddry, July 1896; and I have recently seen a 

 specimen taken at Springhill, Peebles, last September. 



