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Tceniocampa stafo'li's, View. 

 St Abb's Head: one (?) in morning of 23rd April 191 1. 



Orthosia lota, Clerck. 



Isle of May: one, at lantern, 26th September 1907 (Grimshaw, 

 loc. cit.). 



Anchocelis luiiosa, Haw. (Lunar Underwing). 



Isle of May: As the following data show, this is a more or 

 less common visitor to the lantern, a fact of considerable interest, 

 seeing how little has been recorded of the species in the Forth 

 area. Grimshaw (loc. cit.) records five at lantern on 10th, and one 

 on 1 ith September 1907, and I have a pair ( 3 and $ ) given me by 

 Misses Rintoul and Baxter, which were taken the same autumn ; 

 1910 yielded me one ( 3 ) taken on night of 30th August, one on 

 3rd, three (3) on night of 7th, three ( 3 ) on night of 10th, five (S) 

 on morning of 13th, and three (3) between 2 and 4 a.m. on 25th 

 September ; in 191 1, though common down at the engine-house, the 

 only examples taken at the tower lantern were n 3 and 2 ? 

 on night of nth September, 3 3 about 1 a.m. on the 17th (wind 

 northerly and light), and five (2 0,3 $ ) on night of 23rd (wind S.); 



1912, one (3) about 8 p.m. on 14th September, seven (6^,1$) 

 towards end of September, and two ( 3 ) in beginning of October ; 



1913, 6 3 on night of 3rd September, 8 3 and 14 $ on 7th, 

 51 3 and 8 $ on nights of 9th and 10th, 2 3 on 13th, seventy- 

 one (chiefly 3 ) on and about 26th, and 1 3 on 2nd October; 



1914, 6 3 and 9 $ in first week of September. 

 Bass Rock: one (3), September 19 13. 

 Fidra: one (6), September 1913. 



Inchkeith: one (<^), night of 26th September 1913. 



C eras lis vaccinii, Linn. 



Isle of May : Grimshaw (loc. cit.) refers to this species a moth 

 taken at the lantern on 9th September 1907. 



St Abb's Head: one hibernated example, spring of 1914. 



Scopelosoma satcllitia, L. (The Satellite). 



Isle of May : one ( 3 ), night of 25th October 1913. 

 Inchkeith : one ( cO in autumn of 191 1. 



X ant Ilia flavago, Fb. {silago, Hb.). 

 Fidra : one (?) in August 191 1. 



