338 The Scottish Natiwalist. 



Mixodia schulziana. — Common but local. June and July 

 among heather and Vacciniimt at the higher altitudes. 



M. palustrana. — Frequent, but local in the same ground where 

 schulziana is found. I see Wilkinson says among fir-trees, but it 

 it is not necessarily so here ; I should say more among bell- 

 heather. 



Argyrolepia badiana. — Local and not very common. May be 

 easily overlooked, however, as it appears to fly late, and is not 

 long on the wing, resting through the daytime among the bur- 

 docks and dropping among the herbage when disturbed. I have 

 only taken it from the 12th to the 29th of July. . 



E^ipoecilia atjicapitana. — I have only seen half-a-dozen of this 

 species since 1870 till this year, when Dr White and I took 

 about twenty specimens among wood-sage on a stony face of a 

 few yards square, on Moncreiffe Hill, on the 14th, 15 th, and 

 1 6th of August. We found it always resting on the leaves of 

 the wood-sage. Lord Walsingham tells me that he takes it 

 on the flowers of the ragweed at Merton. Here I have never 

 seen it on that plant, but always on or among wood-sage, and in 

 stony places. Curiously enough, I see that Herrich Schseffer 

 mentions one of the genus, poster ana, as being partial to stone 

 quarries. Some of my specimens are of a beautiful rose-colour. 



E. nana. — Not common. I have one or two specimens taken 

 in different localities ; but I have not hit upon its headquarters. 



E. augustaiia. — Frequent, but not common. I have always 

 seen this insect most plentiful on the heather hills. It swarms 

 in Glen Tilt. 



Cochylis straminea. — Extremely local. I know of one place 

 only where it occurs here ; but there it is, I may say, plentiful in 

 July, on a rough bank of mixed herbage and wild flowers. May 

 be disturbed in the daytime, and flies in the evening. 



Xanthosetia hamana. — Occurs commonly at the same time and 

 in the same place as C. straminea. Several varieties occur, some 

 pale straw-colour without markings ; others with ferruginous mark- 

 ings, variable in number and position. 



X. zoegana. — In the same place and about the same time as 

 the former. Does not vary. 



Tortricodes tortricella. — Plentiful in the woods in early spring. 

 Varies considerably in intensity of shade. 



