58 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



November meeting of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. 

 T. G. LAIDLAW, Perth. 



Vanessa eardui in Edinburgh. In view of the undoubted 

 immigation of Painted-lady Butterflies ( Vanessa eardui) into the 

 eastern side of England last autumn, of which Mr. Eagle Clarke 

 witnessed a part at the Kentish Knock Lightship on the night oi 

 22nd September, as recorded by him in the December number 

 of the " Ent. Mo. Mag.," it may be worth while to mention that I 

 saw one in my little garden here in Edinburgh on i4th October, 

 and that one was seen a short time before in the Meadow Walk, 

 still nearer the centre of the city, by my friend Mr. K. J. Morton. 

 Examples have also, I hear, been seen in Aberdeenshire and in Shet- 

 land. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Convolvulus Hawk Moth in Moray. In the beginning of 

 September last a fine specimen of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth 

 (Ph/egethontius (Sphinx) convolvuli), was taken at Lossiemouth and 

 forwarded to me by Mr. Allan, Chemist. HENRY H. BROWN, 

 Cupar, Fife. 



Death's Head and Convolvulus Hawk Moths in Perthshire. 



Several specimens of these fine moths, both of which are very rare 

 in this county, were captured during the past autumn. Of Achero ntia 

 atropos, one was taken at an electric lamp in Perth on the i5th 

 September ; a second flew into a house at the Bridge of Earn on 

 ist October ; and a third was picked up dead in front of a bee- 

 skep at Alyth on loth October. Of Sphinx convohndi a male 

 was taken in the street in Perth on the 9th September, and another 

 male at Pitlochry on the xoth. ALEX. M. RODGER, Perth. 



Crabro styrius, Kohl, and C. eapitosus, Shuck., etc., in Scotland. 

 On Qth July 1901, I noticed two Crabros, one of which I captured, 

 flying about some raspberry bushes in Castle Campbell Glen, near 

 Dollar. On examining the specimen (a 9 ) I thought it was probably 

 referable to C. tibialis. Mr. Edward Saunders, however, on my 

 showing it to him, said it was not that species, but the same as a 

 specimen of his own which he had so far been unable to determine. 

 He now tells me they are C. styrius, Kohl, an addition to the 

 British list of Aculeata, and of which he is giving a description in 

 the January " Ent. Mo. Mag." Of C. eapitosus, Shuck., another 

 addition to the Scottish list, I secured a male on the outskirts of a 

 wood at Salton, East Lothian, on i2th August 1902. A female of 

 C. aphidum, Lep., also a rare insect, was taken at same time as the 

 last. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



