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birch at Avieraore, Inverness-shire, a very pretty pale variety of this 

 moth. Mr. C. G. Barrett, London, to whom I have shown the 

 specimen, tells me he has only seen another like it. The ground 

 colour, which is broken up by the darker nervures and cross-lines, 

 may be described as pale isabelline or wood brown a marked 

 contrast to the ordinary chestnut-coloured form. Of the figures of 

 L. camelina in Mr. Barrett's "British Lepidoptera " (vol. iii. pi. 

 no), that lettered i c, from a Scotch example, comes nearest, I 

 think, to my specimen. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Tsenioeampa graeilis, F., neap Oban. Dr. Buchanan White 

 seems to have regarded this moth as a great rarity (if not a doubtful 

 native) in Scotland. In his "Lepidoptera of Scotland," the only 

 areas he gives for it under the heading " Distribution " are Tweed 

 and Solway, and he adds the following note : " This species is 

 reported from Peasbridge, Berwickshire (Hardy), and Dalmally 

 (Buxton). I have not seen specimens, and I think that there is 

 possibly some error" ("Scot. Nat," vol. ii. p. 181). At page 276 

 of the same volume, Mr. Doubleday, referring to the above, states 

 that he had seen a number of specimens taken near Rannoch, in 

 Perthshire, by R. Weaver. It may therefore be worth while 

 recording a perfect specimen which I took in a piece of boggy 

 ground near Oban, Argyleshire, on 2oth April 1894. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Meta menardi (Latr.} at Loeh Ard, South- West Perthshire. - 

 On 2 gth April last, with the aid of a candle, my son and I found 

 numbers of this large and interesting spider (of both sexes, and 

 mostly adult) on their webs in Rob Roy's Cave, Loch Ard. The 

 Rev. O. P. Cambridge obtained it at the foot of Ben A'an (Trossachs) 

 in 1 86 1. More recently it has been found by Professor Trail 

 near Aberdeen, and by Mr. G. Bolam on the Berwickshire coast ; and 

 Mr. R. Service has lately sent me an egg-cocoon, apparently of this 

 species, from a cavern near Dumfries. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



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Festuea ovina, Z., var. supina, Hackel, in South Aberdeenshire. 



On the Little Craig in Dal I gathered this pretty grass, growing 

 near the station for Astragalus alpinus, which was in fine flower 

 towards the end of June. It was interesting to see on the sweet- 

 scented flower of this local species the rare Burnet Moth (Zygcena 

 ex2(lans) in great plenty. The grass, which is the F. supina, Schur., 

 " Enum. PI. Trauss.," 784 (1866), and the F. ovina, var. alpina, Gren. 

 et Godr., not of Koch, was kindly named for me by Professor Hackel. 

 I do not remember to have seen it recorded for Scotland before. 

 The setaceous lamina and aristate glumes, and short narrow panicle, 



