40 The Scottish Naturalist. 



PIE RID ^. 



KJwdocera Rhavini L. A single specimen taken in Forth (Fife) by Dr Power 

 (Scot. Nat. II. 20). 



LYC^NID^. 



LYC^NA Fab. 



ASTRARCHE Bgstr. (1779); ^/^(fj-^/j-Hh. (1793.) Local. Pascual. 



Distribution — East. 00000000 



West. Solway 0000 



Lat. 55 ^ Range in Europe. Nearly throughout. Type. 



Territorial. Type in Britain. English. 



Time of Appearance — Imago. June-August. Larva. July-May. 

 Food-plant. Erodhim cicutarimn. 



Mr Robert Service, to M'hom I am indebted for information regarding 

 most of the additions in the Solway district, writes that this species is or was 

 common at Mabie, in the neighbourhood of Dumfries, but that the var. 

 Artaxerxes is very local in the district. Mr Service has kindly sent for my 

 inspection a specimen of each form. The Dumfries Astrajxhe (to judge from 

 the specimen) is nearly half-way between the south English insect and the 

 usual Scottish one {Ariaxe^'xes) ; and the specimen sent as Artaxerxes agrees 

 very well with the description of the north English form, Salmacis Stph. 



Though now considered to be but varieties of one species, Asirarche, 

 Salmacis, and Artaxerxes were thought, not very long ago, to be all good 

 species, but if a number of specimens from various localities between the 

 south of Europe and central Scotland are examined, a series can easily be 

 selected showing the gradations between the southern Astrarche and the 

 northern Artaxerxes. 



HBTEROCEIIA. 

 LIPARIDID^. 



Orgyia ptidibiinda L. has been taken once in Solway (by Mr Service), and 

 possibly in Tay (by Sir T. Moncreiffe), but is probably only an acci- 

 dental introduction. 



A R T I I D ^. 



DEIOP.T3IA Steph. 



PULCHELLA L. Very rare. 



Distribution — East. Tweed 0000000 

 West. 00000 



Lat. 55° 40'. Range in Europe. South; sporadic in central. 

 Type. Meridional. Type in Britain. English! 



Time of Appearance — Imago. July-October. Larva. July. Food- 

 plant. Myosotis, &c. 



A single specimen taken near Kelso by Mr W. J. Kerr (Scot. Nat., v. 36) 

 has been seen by me. 



