294 ^^'^ Scottish Naturalist. 



Nycteolid^. 

 326. Hylophila prasinana ;/" 



TORTRICINA. 



Sarrothripa revayana. — I took about twenty specimens flying 

 at dusk, between January 30 and April 27, 1872. I presume T 

 hit upon a brood \ they were all flying near Cupressus. I have 

 not taken many specimens in other seasons. They vary con- 

 siderably. 



Aviphysa ger7iingana. — This is a local species, but is not 

 uncommon in one or two localities .from 500 to 600 feet of an 

 elevation. Frequents heather, Calhma vulgaris. Flies in the 

 afternoon, at the end of July and in August. 



Eidia ministrana. — Distributed generally over the face of 

 Moncreiffe Hill, and not especially near hazel. Indeed I think 

 it is most common at an elevation of 600 feet, where no hazel 

 is to be met with. This is an early insect, floating about in the 

 fine afternoons in May. 



Penthina corticajia. — Rather an uncommon insect. I have 

 taken it flying in the evening, and at rest on tree-trunks in 

 June. 



P. betuletaiia. — More frequent than the former. To be beaten 

 off" birches or resting on the undergrowth beneath them in 

 August. 



P. prcelongaiia. — A more common insect than either of the 

 former on the lower grounds of Moncreiffe, and also to be met 

 with up to 600 feet. To be beaten out or taken on the tree- 

 trunks in June. 



P. cynosbatclla. — This is a very common insect in my garden 

 in June. It appears to prefer plum, pear, and apricot trees to 

 any others. I have reared it from Py7-us japonica. 



Lozotenia 7nuscu/a7ia. — Common, and generally distributed. It 

 is one of the early tortrices that cheer one by their appearance 

 in the beginning of May. Here it is decidedly attached to oak, 

 but I was puzzled once by meeting with it flying in numbers 

 about a wall-side on the open moor near Loch Broom, some 

 distance from any plantation. 



Z. xylosteana. — Frequent some seasons among the oaks in 

 my shrubbery, but by no means common. Is to be found up 

 to 5 CO feet. Appears in August. 



Z. rosaua. — Abundant in my garden some seasons, from the 



