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not think the tail was spread out, as Mr Evans describes, but 

 certainly bent down and inwards to a remarkable extent, giving the 

 bird an unusual, bunchy appearance. G. Brooksbank, Aberfeldy, 

 Perthshire. 



Lycaena artaxerxes and Eupithecia helveticaria in 

 East Lothian. The Artaxerxes butterfly, long associated with 

 Arthur's Seat, is now so rare in the Lothians that its discovery in 

 the western portion of the Lammermuirs on 5th August 1916 gave 

 me peculiar pleasure. The date was late for it by about a month, 

 and the dozen or so seen were mostly much worn. The locality 

 was revisited on nth July 191 7, when Artaxerxes was again in 

 evidence, but not numerous, in several spots. It would be 

 interesting to know if this little butterfly still exists anywhere on 

 the Pentlands. In July 1872 I met with it in the western part of 

 the range, as recorded in the Annals Scot. JVat. Hist, for 1897, 

 p. 92, where the month is erroneously given as June. 



I take this opportunity to record the occurrence also on the 

 Lammermuirs of that interesting " Pug " moth, Eupithecia helveticaria, 

 for which the Pentland Hills have been so long noted. In the last 

 week of October 1916 two larvcc were beaten from a juniper bush 

 on the hillside above the farm of Halls, south-west of Dunbar ; but 

 I failed to rear either of them. On 20th October 191 7, about a 

 dozen larvas were beaten off junipers above Yester ; and from these 

 two moths were obtained the following May. William Evans, 

 Edinburgh. 



Cychramus luteus, P., in Lanarkshire. In his Coleoptera 

 of Scotland {Scottish Naturalist, iii., 374), Dr Sharp recorded this 

 beetle from the Solway and Clyde areas. Apart from this general 

 mention of its occurrence in Clyde, the only specific record for the 

 species in that area is contained in Murray's Catalogue of the 

 Coleoptera of Scotland (1853), where it is noted from Ayrshire. I 

 have found it sparingly near Lanark during the last two summers. 

 The insect is said by Fowler {Coleoptera of the British Islands, iii., 

 259) to occur on flowers of whitethorn in spring as well as in 

 decaying fungi ; and Dr Sharp {loc. cit.) states that it is found in 

 fungi. My specimens were all taken on the flowers of 

 umbelliferous plants during the month of August. A. Fergusson, 

 Glasgow. 



