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from here are fine and clearly marked, but I have seen no dark 

 varieties such as occur in Rannoch and Glen Tilt. 



E. inimitata. — I do not feel quite clear in my own mind about 

 the identity of this Eiipithecia here. I have a specimen taken 

 in Blair-Athole which coincides most distinctly with Hubner's 

 figure 454 of inimitata. What I take here and separate from 

 absy?ithiata as inimitata dift'ers principally in size, whereas in 

 my Blair-Athole specimen there is a most decided difference, to 

 my eye, in the whole insect. 



E. assimilata. — Frequent among currant-bushes, and appears 

 early in May. I now find no difficulty in distinguishing this in- 

 sect from its congeners ; both the shape of the wing and the sub- 

 terminal markings are quite distinct. 



E. temiiata. — Common among sallows and willows. Although 

 this is a very backward season (1877), Mr Herd and I saw the 

 larva nearly full fed on the 20th of April, many of the sallows 

 being still only in the white bud. 



E. dodoneata. — I took a specimen which may be this insect, 

 but I have my doubts. A better man than me, however, said, 

 " dodoneata ? " so I give it the benefit of the doubt, as I do not 

 know dodoneata myself. 



E. abbreviata. — Common and generally distributed. Varies 

 considerably in every way. There is a difference of two or three 

 lines in the expanse of some of my specimens. In some, also, the 

 ground shade of colour is unicolorous grey-green ; in others 

 there is a light-coloured area sometimes edged with tawny in 

 the centre of the upper wings. The one constant mark, how- 

 ever, is the perpendicular line-like central spot. 



E. sobrinata. — There were not many junipers here for a number 

 of years; but where they were sobrinata was to be found. I have 

 lately planted out a few, and the insect appears to follow the 

 food-plant. It strikes me, however, that it feeds upon spruce 

 or some other of the fir tribe, as I have taken it far away from 

 juniper in fresh condition and early in the season. 



( To be conliniied. ) 



Anecdote of the Manx Puffin of the Dardanelles.— There has long 

 been in the Norwich Museum a specimen of this vShearwater, which is so com- 

 mon in the Black Sea and in the Mediterranean. It is stated on the ticket of 

 the case that it was captured by Lieutenant Coppinger of H.M.S. Malabar, 

 " by two flocks in rapid flight meeting each other with such rapid velocity 

 that two (of the Shearwaters), striking each other, fell dead in his boat." The 



