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the house. These all bclonu; to the smoky-grey variety known as 

 wax. perfi/maria. In 1918 Mr J. W. Bowhill showed me a specimen 

 he had recently taken in his garden in the (Irangc district of 

 I'^dinburgh, and Miss Balfour tells me she has taken the species at 

 Whittingehame in East Lothian ; while I believe I have seen a 

 specimen from West Fife in Dunfermline Museum. William 

 Evans, Edinburgh. 



The Kentish Glory Moth on Deeside. A Kentish Glory 

 Moth {Endromis versicolor) was found on a fir-tree on the east side 

 of Birsemohr Loch, near Aboyne, on the evening of 17th April 1919, 

 by Mr Christie, Millbank, Birse Aboyne. It was sent to the Royal 

 Scottish Museum. Jane Gowan, Cullen. 



[Though Kentish Glory Moths have been already recorded from 

 Aberdeenshire, the above is of interest. Eds.] 



Caterpillars of the Pale Mottled Willow Moth in Flax. 



When visiting the station where the flax is deseeded, at Silverburn, 

 near Leven, I was interested to notice large numbers of caterpillars 

 among the refuse wliich remained after the deseeding process. The 

 caterpillars had evidently been living in the flax, and I was struck 

 by their marvellous vitality in coming, unhurt, through the various 

 operations necessary for deseeding. These comprised crushing 

 between rollers and passing through the winnowing machine; it was 

 among the small stones, broken husks, and other debris that the 

 caterpillars were found. A good many of them were caught and 

 reared and proved to be caterpillars of the Pale Mottled Willow 

 {Caradrina ciibiciilaris). ^^'heat stacks and pea haulms are known 

 to be sometimes infested by this caterpillar, but I can find no 

 previous record of it in flax. George Russell, Lundin Links. 



Aspidiphorus orbiculatus, Gyll., in Scotland. In dealing 

 with this beetle in the paper on additions to the list of Scottish 

 Coleoptera {^Scottish Naturalist, 19 19, 167), I omitted to mention 

 that it had previously been recorded by Andrew Murray in his 

 "Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland" (1853), as occurring in 

 moss in Berwickshire and at Kirkpatrick-Juxta in Dumfriesshire. 

 For some reason or another it was not included in Dr Sharp's 

 " Coleoptera of Scotland," but the Stirlingshire record has the effect 

 of re-establishing it as a Scottish species. A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



Staphylinus caesareus, Ceder., in Main Argyll This fine 

 Staphylinus is decidedly scarce in the Clyde area, and I was 

 accordingly glad to find a beautiful specimen running across the 

 road in Glen Goil, Lochgoilhead, during September 1915. 

 A. Fergusson, Glasgow. 



