296 'llie Scottish Naturalist. 



Wood's figure, 1027, or Hubner's semimaciilana, which Staudinger 

 makes solandriajia. Is this latter a common EngUsh form ? 



P. ophthalmicana. — Locally common at a low elevation on 

 poi^lar. 



Catoptria cana and Scopoliana. — If Mr Barrett is right in his 

 division of the species, which I am inclined to think he is, 

 we have here cana and scopoliana. See ' Barrett's Tortrices, 

 E.M.M.,' vol. X., page 4. Mr Barrett has seen my specimens 

 and named them accordingly. They seem both common in 

 certain places in June and July. 



Halonota bimaculana. — Not uncommon here. I usually take 

 it either on the heather under, or .beaten off, birch-trees in 

 August and September. 



H. trigeminana. — A very abundant insect on the face of Mon- 

 creiffe Hill in June, especially on the dry faces at and over 500 

 feet. 



H. cirsiana. — Locally frequent. Sitting on the herbage or 

 flying in the sunshine in May and June. 



H. scutulana i^Phhigiana). — Not very common, being local. 

 The average size of the males here is 9 to 10 lines. I see Wil- 

 kinson gives 7|- to 9, as does Mr Stainton. I cannot see any 

 resemblance between our cirsiana and scutulana. 



H. brunjiichiana. — The food-plant is not very common here ; 

 but, where it grows in my garden and orchard, I find brunnichi- 

 ana in July and August. I have a female taken at Keir which 

 is nearl)'- unicolorous, the dorsal patch being very slightly paler 

 than the ground colour. 



H. tetragonana. — Not common. I have taken a few specimens 

 in the last two or three years among the rose-bushes in the 

 garden, towards the end of June. Mr Barrett informs me that 

 my specimens are unusually dark. 



Dicroranipha pctiverclla. — Plentiful, where and when it occurs; 

 but where I find it one season it is sometimes entirely absent 

 the next. The pale dorsal mark is, as Mr Stainton observes, 

 sometimes divided by the ground colour. It appears here in 

 July. 



D. alpinana. — In the few places where the tansy grows liere, 

 alpinana is commonly to be met with in July. 



D. pluvibagana. — I have two specimens taken near my liouse 

 in the end of May, wliich Mr Barrett has identified for me as 

 this insect : as the members of this family are so much alike, it 

 may be more common tlian I suppose. 



