The Scottish Naturalist. loi 



Loisclcuria) procumbens^ and thought that that plant might be its 

 food, since I have found the spun-up larvae in close proximity to 

 it ; but as the Azalea is not a Pyrenean species, there must be 

 another food-plant. 



Scopula uliginosalis (the alpinalis of British lists, and perhaps a 

 variety of the true alpinalis Schiff., which is apparently not a 

 British species) inhabits grassy places on the sides of the moun- 

 tains of the north-east and north-west of Scotland, occasionally, 

 but rarely (as in Braemar), descending to 1200 feet, but usually 

 not found under 2000 feet. On the Continent it occurs on the 

 Alps, and on the mountains of Hungary and Galicia. 



Scoparia alpina frequents grassy and mossy places — often on 

 the ridges — of the higher hills of Perthshire and Aberdeenshire, 

 usually not descending below 2000 feet. It has not yet been found 

 out of Britain. 



S. gracilalis occurs on the mountains of Perthshire and of 

 Norway ; but as it is the only one of the species of which this 

 paper treats, which I have not personally observed, I cannot give 

 any information as to its habits. 



Crambus furcatellus most usually occurs on the grassy or mossy 

 ridges of the higher hills of Scotland, north-west England, and 

 Wales ; but, like the other mountain species, it is very local. 

 The lowest altitude at which I have noticed it is about 2300 feet. 

 On the Continent it occurs on the Alps and Norwegian moun- 

 tains, and in Lapland. 



Penthina Stainto?iiana has been as yet found only in Scotland, 

 where it occurs very locally, in sheltered places on the hills, at or 

 above 2000 feet. 



P. Grevilleana is also known only as a Scottish species, and 

 one of very great rarity. Though I have taken it, I regret that 

 I am unable to give any account of its habits. 



Sericoris inigiiana is sometimes considered to be a variety of 

 metallica7ia Hb., but is more of a mountain species than that 

 insect. In Britain it occurs very locally on the higher parts of 

 mountains in the north-east and north-west of Scotland. On the 

 Continent it inhabits the Alps, Norwegian mountains, and polar 

 Norway, as well as the Altai. 



Swam?>ie?-damia fianiiiora was, till lately, only known from a 

 single specimen found, in the larval state, by me, in east Inver- 

 ness-shire, at an altitude of about 2000 feet. It has lately been 

 taken in Esthonia. 



Zelleria saxifragce is not uncommon, but rather local amongst 



