20 The Scottish Naturalist. 



in the race of Antiopa inhabiting the parts of the continent 

 nearest Britain,* and possibly the same absence in the whole 

 race. 



Gonepteryx rhamni in Fifeshire.— On the 19th August Dr. J. A. Power 

 and I were driving from Balmuto to Kinghorn, and when a little to the east of 

 Kilrie Lodge, the Doctor said to me "There goes rhamni.'" I said he was 

 mistaken, as there were no rhamni in Fife, but he was positive he was right, so 

 we got out of the dog-cart and went back to the place where he said he saw the 

 butterfly ; we had no net except the Doctor's water-net (fortunately not yet 

 put to its proper use) and with it we captured the insect, — a fine male G. 

 rhamni.—]. Boswell Syme, Balmuto, Nov., 1872. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Fife.— A friend (Mr. G.^Davidson, of Banchory, King- 

 horn), told me that in the latter part of August he had seen a butterfly he had 

 never seen before, on the old north road, between South Balmuto and Dunearn 

 hill, not far from this. From his description I supposed it to be Vanessa 

 Antiopa, so I shewed him a French specimen, and he said his butterfly was very 

 like it, but had a white margin to the wings. — Id. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Banffshire.— Mr. Bannerman informs me that in 

 August of this year he saw a fine specimen of Vanessa Antiopa near Banff, 

 adding another to the list of Scottish counties in which it has been seen this 

 year.— J. W. H. Traill, Old Aberdeen, Nov., 1872. 



Additions to the Aberdeenshire Fauna.— On looking over a collection 

 of Lepidoptera lately, which had been made during the summer about Aber- 

 deen, I found some species 'new to the lists of the district, v\z.~—Argynnis 

 Paphia, one specimen of which had been taken at Muchalls ; Zygcena trifolii, 

 of which one specimen was taken at the same place ; and several specimens of 

 Botys verticalis, taken a few miles inland from Aberdeen, This last species has 

 been obtained in several localities near Aberdeen this year. Evpithecia Una- 

 riata has been taken abundantly at Inverury by Mr. Tait. Of species not new 

 to the district, the following are among the more interesting : Erebia crthiops 

 {E. Btandina), on the coast a mile or two south of Aberdeen ; Lithosia com- 

 planula, the larvae common near Stonehaven ; Orthosia suspecta, once in Strath- 

 don ; F. pinetaria, in Corgarff on the Don ; and a specimen of Vanessa Antiopa 

 near Aberdeen in September. 



Among some beetles picked up by me during the summer, Dr. Sharp, to 

 whom I sent them for examination, has detected two specimens of Omalium 

 rugulipenne, and three of Corticaria cyUndrica, both, he informs me, very rare, 

 and both new to Scotland. To the best of my knowledge, 1 took both species 

 among the rocks, about two miles south of Aberdeen, along with the littoral 

 species Cercyon littorale, and Aleochara grisea, both of which Dr. Sharp found 

 among those sent. — Id. 



* I only remember one recorded instance of Vanessa Antiopa having been 



seen crossing the Channel. 



