ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 119 



1900), Inverkeithing (June 1900, a good many), and Dunbar (July 

 1900). I am not aware that any one else has recorded it from 

 Scotland. 



Chrysis ignita, L. This is our common Ruby-tail. I have speci- 

 mens from Dunbar, Tyninghame, Aberlady, Longniddry, Morning- 

 side, Comiston, Mid-Calder, Peebles, Linlithgow, Kinghorn, North 

 Queensferry, Inverkeithing, Perth, and Loch Tay, and have seen it 

 in a number of other localities. Mr. P. Cameron has recorded it 

 for Clydesdale ("Fauna and Flora of West of Scotland," 1876, p. 

 xviii.) ; and the name occurs in Stewart's list of Edinburgh Insects 

 (1809) and MacGillivray's "Natural History of Deeside " (1855). 

 It is parasitic on Mason-wasps (Odyncrus}. 



Mr. Cameron (/.".) records " Omalus ctzruleus" from Clydesdale. 

 This was probably O. cccndcus, Smith (nee Dhb.) = Ellampus ceneits, 

 K, of Morice's table. According to Smith's 1851 List of Hymen- 

 optera Aculeata in the British Museum, Cleptes nitidula (F.) has 

 occurred in Scotland, but no particulars are given. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Aealla ferrugana, Fr., in spring 1 . Recently when referring to 

 the " Ent. Monthly Mag." vol. x. (1873), I came on a passage at page 

 173 written by Mr. Barrett to the effect that Aealla aspersana is 

 partially double-brooded, the first brood, which is scarce, appearing in 

 June. As this interested me, " Stainton's Manual " was referred to ; 

 he gives "VIII.-X. " without allusion to its appearance in spring. 

 Meyrick is apparently rather sceptical and says : " There is said to 

 be sometimes a partial early brood of imagos in June, perhaps from 

 autumnal larvae." 



Now I think, in Scotland at any rate, the explanation is that we 

 have but an autumnal brood, which hybernates. Any one who has 

 visited Rannoch in April can hardly have failed to notice at least 

 two things when passing through the leafless alleys of purple-twigged 

 birches, namely Brephos parthenias with its tumbling flight, and a 

 little Tortrix, Aealla ferrugana. These April examples are paler than 

 the autumnal ones, the result, no doubt, of hybernation, although 

 Mr. Barrett refers to the same distinction between the supposed 

 June and autumnal broods. I have seen no allusion hitherto to 

 this hybernation, although I can scarcely believe it to have been 

 unnoticed. K. J. MORTON, Edinburgh. 



Selenia bilunaria, Esp. : is it double-brooded in Scotland ? 



It seems to be pretty generally taken for granted that Selenia bilunaria 

 is double-brooded throughout its range in Britain at least Barrett 

 in his recent review of the species speaks of no exception. 



That this species is really regularly double-brooded throughout 

 Scotland cannot be the case. During observations, extending over 

 many years, in the Carluke district of Lanarkshire, I never happened 

 to meet with a single specimen during the later summer months. 



