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1894, and again hybernated specimens in May last. Mr. C. G. 

 Barrett has seen both the autumn and hybernated specimens, and 

 he says : " I cannot find a record of Ahicita polydactyla in Scotland 

 at all. Yorkshire and Westmoreland appear to be the most northerly 

 localities of which I know." A. ELLIOT, Caverton, Roxburghshire. 



Death's-head Moth in East Lothian. I have heard of the 

 capture of three examples of the Death's-head (Acherontia atropos) 

 in East Lothian this summer, namely one (now in my possession) at 

 Harelaw near Aberlady, in the beginning of July; one at Had- 

 dington about the same time ; and one at Tranent. All are said to 

 have been about bee-hives. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Death's-head Moth in Moray. A specimen of Acherontia 

 atropos ; Linn., was captured by Mr. Hossack, Alma Cottage, Elgin, 

 in his garden on the evening of 3rd July last. It seemed to be 

 freshly emerged from the pupa, was under the average size, and had 

 the lower left wing undeveloped. HENRY H. BROWN, Elgin. 



Clifden Nonpareil in Moray. A specimen of the rare moth 

 Catocala fraxini, Linn., was picked up by Mr. R. H. Mackessack, of 

 Woodside and Hatton, on iyth September last, upon the road near 

 Seapark in the parish of Kinloss, Elginshire. It appeared to have 

 been crushed by the foot of some person passing along the road, but 

 was alive when Mr. Mackessack found it. Seapark is in the vicinity 

 of Forres, a district long celebrated for the richness and variety of its 

 Lepidopterous fauna, but fraxini is undoubtedly the most interesting 

 discovery which has been made there for some time. HENRY H. 

 BROWN, Elgin. 



Sirex juveneus in Roxburghshire. On 2oth August last the 

 farm steward at Ormiston, in this district, kindly sent me several 

 living specimens, both male and female, of Sirex juveneus. He had 

 got them, I understand, when splitting up an old larch gate-post 

 which was perforated with the burrows of the larvae. A. ELLIOT, 

 Caverton, Roxburghshire. 



Hydrometra stagnorum, Z., in Perthshire and Fifeshire. I 



do not find this species mentioned in Mr. T. M. M'Gregor's list of 

 Perthshire Hemiptera ("Annals "for October 1893 and April 1894), 

 and am therefore induced to mention its occurrence in the south- 

 western part of the county, where, in April last, I found several 

 examples in a ditch by the roadside at Loch Ard. I have also 

 taken it in Fifeshire at Otterston Loch. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Boreus hiemalis, L., near Edinburgh. The " Annals " for July 

 1895 contains a record by Mr. G. H. Carpenter of a specimen of 

 this curious insect taken by me at Morton, about a couple of miles 

 south of Edinburgh, in November of the previous year. During 

 October and November 1896 I again found the species, but this 

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