12 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Synfomaspis sp. I have bred from the galls of Rhodites eglantericc, a 

 Syiitomaspis very like S. cyanea Boh. ( Callimone eurynottis Wallc. ), but 

 apparently quite distinct from that species. I have not, however, sufficient 

 specimens to form a definite ojDinion on it, and wish to direct attention to its 

 occurrence. Cyanea frequents the galls of Dryophanta longiventris, D. 

 divisa and other oak galls. S. piihescens Forst., has been reared from the 

 galls of either Rhodites centifoHcc or eglanteria:, but it is a quite distinct 

 species from my insect. 



Tory fines hiberans Mayr. I am glad to be able 'to add this species to our 

 fauna. It is attached as a parasite to the gall-fly Nemoiei'us lentiadaris. 

 My specimens are from Cadder Wilderness. Diomonis ai-matus Boh. , I 

 have taken in Rannoch. 



Of other Ckalcididce it may be worth mentioning, that I have taken that 

 curious insect Micromehis phynogaster Walk., at Kingussie, and Calypso 

 {SteJiaphriis) coinpressns Foer., at Milngavie. 



Another interesting insect which I have captured this year is Ceroptres 

 cerri Mayr., which I certainly did not expect to find in this district, as on 

 the Continent it is attached as an inquiline to oak galls, which are not 

 ►Scottish nor even British, and it will be interesting to discover whether it 

 frequents some of our recorded native galls, or whether some of the galls 

 which it frequents on the Continent are inhabitants of Scotland. 



I am at present preparing a revision of the British inquiline Cyuipidm 

 [Synergzis], and should feel very much obliged to any one who would lend 

 me for examination, bred specimens of this tribe. — Id. 



Capture of Catocala fraxini in Berwickshire. — About the 9th of 

 September, when sugaring near Netherbyres for Cincedia xeranipelina (of 

 which I only got one worn specimen); I was very much surprised to see 

 one of this rare moth also. It was sitting with the fore wings arched upward, 

 touching each other at the tip, and the hind wings spread backwards and 

 pressing against the tree, giving this moth a most peculiar-looking appear- 

 ance. Both the hind wings were badly torn, but the front wings Avere pretty 

 perfect. There are plenty of old ash trees near, and the banks of the Eye 

 are wooded for about three miles upward, so that it may have been bred 

 further up, but none were taken in the neighbourhood of Ayton, though 

 the trees were sugared in likely places. — W. SiiAW, Eyemouth Mill, 

 Ayton, Berwickshire, December, 1876. 



Catocala nupta — About the end of August, when sugaring on 

 our sea-banks, I captured a fine specimen of this moth. There were 

 several willow bushes not far from the place, on which the caterpillars most 

 likely fed. The same ground was sugared twice afterwards, but they were 

 not good nights, and no more nupta were taken.--/;/. 



Pachnobia hyperborea, var. alpina.— It seems desirable that some 

 notice should be taken in the Scottish A'attcralist of the occurrence in Ran- 

 noch last summer of numerous exami)les of this hitherto rare moth. Eight 

 specimens which I had the pleasure of examining were remarkable for 

 their beauty and variability. Careful searching in favourable years would 

 probably show that this species is of wide distribution on our higher moun- 

 tains. — F. Buchanan White. 



