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the larvae mine the birch leaves, and when full-fed .spin oval cocoons of 

 thin silk between the epidermal folds in which they pass the pupa state ; it 

 is double brooded. P. vagans Fall ( melanopyga Kl.)., not so common. 

 FenUsa pyg»uca, not common. Emphytus calceatus, five specimens. E. 

 tener Fall., common. E. perta, one individual on rose. Blennocampa 

 brfuleti, common. B. fuscipennis Fall., taken in the 151ack Wood by sweep- 

 ing grass, etc. B. albipes, common. B. cinereipes. B. pusztta, the 

 commonest of the genus. Eriocampa ovata, common on the alders at Dall, 

 and, as usual, all the specimens were females. E. annulipes, more abun- 

 dant. Pczcilosoma puherata, apparently not rare on alders. P. obtusa, one 

 specimen. P. impresa, common. Taxonus coxa/is, one specimen. Setan- 

 dria serva, S. stramineipes, S. morio, all common. Strongytogaster 

 cingulatus, common on Ptetis, upon which the larvse feed. S. delicatulus 

 Fall, (eboriuus Kl.), much rarer than the last. Pachyprotasis rapes. P. 

 simulans, common. P. variegata, one specimen. Allantas nothus, abun- 

 dant. Perinewa nassata L. Thorns. , common. P. brevispina ThOms. , and 

 P. excisa Thorns., much, rarer. TentJiredo scalaris, T. pimctulata, T. 

 mesomela, T. olivacea, T. atra, all common. Of the last species specimens 

 were found with the three apical joints of the antennse white, and they 

 were also smaller than usual. T. moniliata Kl., two specimens. T. iivida, 

 and T. balteata, abundant. T. rufiventris, rare. Dolerus eglanterice, not 

 common in marshy places. D. niger, one specimen. D. vestigialis, com- 

 mon, Lyda nemo?alis ~L.(pratensis Fab. ), rare on pine. L. ery throe ephala, 

 very rare. L. arbustorum Fab., one specimen on rose at Camachgouran on 

 the banks of the burn. — P. Cameron, jun., Glasgow. 



Notes on Lepidoptera in Kirkcudbrightshire -I do not remember a 



summer in which sugar was so utterly useless j- and this though in several 

 portions of the season the weather seemed very suitable. I fully believe 

 myself that a solemn league and covenant has been entered upon 

 by all those noctuse who have the least pretensions to gentility, 

 to abstain from all spirituous concoctions, seeing how demoralizing 

 and depopulating are the results of tippling ! Such habitual roue's, 

 however, as Monoglypha ( Polyodon) and Pronuba have not signed 

 the document, and appeared with their usual effrontery. Among the whim- 

 sical disappearances this year, it may be noted, that not one T. Comes 

 ( Orbona) ventured to sugar ; and not one P. Gamma frisked among the 

 verbenas and petunias. To begin somewhat in order. Thecla quercus, 

 swarmed at the oaks, early in August, but as it considered that its patch of 

 purple give it a right to assume imperial habits, it was not easy to entrap. 

 E. Hyperantus, ab. Arete Mull., apjDeared occasionally, and H. Sylvanus, 

 not a generally abundant Scotch butterfly, was very common in July. If, 

 in the middle of June, one went to the rocks by the sea, and having select- 

 ed a sunny spot with plenty of Statue armeria in bloom, observed a small 

 grey insect come with a rapid and yet quiet flight, and hover over the 

 flowers, a judicious stroke of the net would prove this little visitor to be 

 Sesia musccefoitnis. It occurred too in the larval state, but is more abun- 

 dant in some other parts of this coast. C. porcetlus was very scarce this 

 year. Larvse of S. populi might be taken on poplar, and of Saturnia 

 pavonia on the moors. S lubricipeda was represented by an almost uni- 

 colorous specimen. S. fuliginosa occurred, and so too N. planlagiuis ; 



