The Scottish Naturalist. 45 



him home in my net, his struggles causing considerable 

 damage. 



Ch(E7'ocainpa Porcellus. — Locally common on Moncreiffe Hill 

 and its base. Firstly, in my garden, at about 100 feet of eleva- 

 tion ; Secondly, on the lower face of the hill, on an open space of 

 some hundred square yards, at from 100 to 200 feet of eleva- 

 tion ; Thirdly, on another open space towards the summit, at an 

 altitude of about 500 feet or thereabouts. In the first place — /.<?., 

 the garden — it is to be met with in the evenings in June and 

 July, flying at Rhododendron, Valerian, Turncap Lily, &c. 

 In the second locality, I take it in June and July, in the even- 

 ing, at the blossom of the White Campion ; and also in May 

 or early in June, according to the season, by searching the 

 plants of Galium verum, from mid-day till towards dusk, when 

 splendid specimens may be found, drying their wings after 

 emerging from the pupa, as bright and perfect — perhaps more 

 so — as those artificially reared. All the specimens I have kept 

 for my cabinet I have obtained in this manner. Those noticed 

 in the third locality were also resting on bedstraw ; one I se- 

 cured here on the small white kind (G. saxatile). I have one 

 very beautiful specimen which I captured one evening as it 

 was rising from a bush of bedstraw, probably in its maiden 

 flight, as it is beautifully fresh. It varies from the type in the 

 yellow ground colour being more of a canary colour, in the 

 total absence of red, which colour is supplanted by whitish 

 grey. The posterior wings have the same dark shade along 

 the base as the type, thus relieving the otherwise pale colour of 

 the whole insect. The head, thorax, and abdomen correspond 

 in colour with the wings, although the wool on the thorax is 

 paler. My earliest record for C. porcellus is, I think. May 16, 

 1875 ; but that, I should say, was unusually early for this dis- 

 trict. As a rule it first appears from the 12th to the 20th of 

 June. 



Macroglossd Stellatarum is not a common species here, al- 

 though I can remember it more plentiful than it has been since 

 I commenced collecting. I never heard of more than one or 

 two specimens being seen at Moncreiffe when it ought to have 

 been most plentiful, viz., in the autumn. I usually see a hyber- 

 nated specimen or two on the face of the rocks, at an elevation 

 of a little over 600 feet, on sunny days in spring, at which 

 time it takes comparatively short flights, settling to sun itself 

 on the fiat surfaces of stone occasionally, but when approached 



