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the side of the Lainmcrmoors, and on this fine old ground, found the beautiful Lithocolletis 

 Spinoklla not scarce in some dwarf Sallows, along with GraphoUta campolUiana, and one 

 specimen of Tinea bktrigolla. Phloaodes frutetana was abundant in the birches, and Tortrix 

 ministrana, Ephipiphora Scutulana, Neinatopogon Panzerella, Adela viridella, Sgc, ^c, occasional 

 among the underwood. In the following week a portion of the Committee went by rail to 

 Tranent, and walked thence to the village of Ormiston. On the way thither, they found 

 abuiidance of Aicophora quadn'punctella in the wild roses in the hedges, and in a small wood 

 at the east end of the village, noted besides for producing the beautiful plant called Solomon's 

 Seal, they found a great variety of interesting species. One of the most beautiful of these was 

 Tinea luzclla, discovered here some years ago by Mr. Howden, and not recorded as having been 

 found elsewliere in Scotland. It was some time before they found it, having gone to the wrong 

 comer of the wood, but in the meantime, in a spot carpeted with Ajuga rejJtans and other 

 plants, they found the little bronze-coloured Micropteryx Calthella and Adda Fihdella flying in 

 the sunshine, and presently one specimen, and then another, of the beautiful Luzella, which has 

 a very striking appearance when on the wing, the bright silver bars shewing distinctly on the 

 dark purple wings, in consequence of its slow, soft flight. As they proceeded eastward into the 

 more shady part of the wood, they found it more abundant, risuig from among a profusion of 

 the young foliage of (Egopodium podagraria and Spircea Uhnaria. They found several Tineidce 

 likewise on the trunks of the trees, and in the meadow beyond the wood, again met with the 

 active little Eupithecia palmtraria. Altogether, on this day, about twenty-five or twenty-six 

 species were taken. The next excursion was on the 15th. of June, to the moorland district near 

 Kirknewton, where Argyrolepia Baumanniana, Eupithecia Callunaria, and a number of other 

 species occurred, and Coccyx Hercyitiana was flying in s\^arms round the spruce firs in the 

 plantations. 



Towards the end of June, the beautiful Pyrausta cingidalis, better recognised perhaps, by its 

 very appropriate English name of Silver-barred Sable, made its appearance on the Helianthemum 

 and Thyme-covered slopes of Arthur's Scat, along with Pempelia subornatella, which feeds on 

 Thymus Sopyllum, Scricoris Cespiitana, which feeds on the Dwarf Cistus and Gelechia Artemesiell ', 

 which, upon Arthur's Seat, has nothing whatever to do with Artcmcsia, but probably feeds on 

 Helianthemum, or some other low-growing plant. In the month of Jime, Dianthoecia conspersa 

 and Carpophaga had been taken by Mr. John Nelson, at Kirkland Hill, near the mouth of the 

 Tyne, East Lothian, both rare insects, and the latter probably new to Scotland. 



On the 6th. of July, Toi-wood, in Stirlingshire, was explored, and though the day had been 

 very wet, shortly after it faired, Argyresthia covjngella appeared flying round the mountain-ash 

 trees, and Tinea hitarella. var. around the birches. Several specimens of Ornix Scoticiila 

 occurred, which feeds on the mountain-ash, though it was rather late to meet with it in 

 perfection. In addition to the foregoing species. Tinea bistrigella occurred again, — a single 

 specimen. Numbers of Elachista albifrontclla, Coleoj)hora albicosta in the gorse, and Elachista ■ 

 festaliella near brambles. On the 19th. of July, in Glen Clova, Forfarshire, on the mountain 

 sides carpeted with Alchemilla alpina, and studded in the moister parts with Narthecium 

 osKifragum, Saxifraga aizoides, SteUaris, and the many other beauties of alpine and subalpine 

 flora; on large weather-beaten blocks which had descended from the hills, numerous specimens 

 of Aploccra ccesiaria, Emmelesia Ericetaria, and Coremia Munitaria were resting, flying oflT as 

 they were approached, frequently to a considerable distance. Botys fuscalis was here in abun- 

 dance; and in ascending to one of the carries three specimens of the rare Scoptda alpinalis 

 occurred. The want of sun, however, at the time, was veiy vnifavourable to the appearance of 

 many of the minute moths, which delight in his wann beams quite as much, apparently, as 

 the strictly diurnal butterflies, of which not one was seen. 



In ascending Corstorpliine Hill one day in the beginning of August, a member of the Committee 

 found no less than four specimens of the rare Apdccta occulta, resting on the trunks of trees; 

 and about the same period, while on a visit to the Bass Eock, he found the chrysalis of a 

 Noctua, under a stone, above the cliff's, which subsequently produced the rare Hadena lutulenta, 

 an interesting addition to the ins(;cts of Scotland. 



On August 10th., in a valley among the Lannnermoors, in East Lothian, Eupithecia Sobrinata 

 abounded among the juniper bushes, but it was found no easy matter to net a sufficiency of 

 specimens, from their extreme activity. In this valley a wasted specimen of Polyommatus 

 Artazcrxes also occurred, which was at one time imagined to be peculiar to Arthur's Seat; and 



