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a small tub, which was sunk to within two or three inches of its upper edge 

 in a moderatelj dry flower-bed in the garden, and provided with a covering 

 of net, as well to prevent the escape of the caterpillars as of the perfect insects 

 when they emerged as such. The majority of these insects came out the 

 beginning of the following June, but about ten or twelve individuals continued 

 through the next summer, autumn, and winter, and till the beginning of the 

 succeeding June, ere they made their appearance, thus having continued the 

 greater part of two years in the chrysalis state. As no artificial means were 

 resorted to in this instance to retard their development, I cannot but consider 

 it to be, as already stated, an extraordinary provision of nature for the pres- 

 ervation of the species; for should one season prove adverse to their well-being, 

 there is, if I may be allowed the expression, a 'corps de reserve' provided, in order 

 to supply individuals for the following season, which may prove more propitious. 



Brighthampton, August 10th., 1853. 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF BANFF. 



BY MR. T. EDWARD. 



Perhaps the following notice of the occurrence and capture of a few of the 

 Tarer'^Creptcscularies of this quarter, during the present and by-gone seasons, 

 may not be uninteresting to at least some of the readers of "The Naturalist." 

 I give them not in order, but at random. 



The Broad- bordered Yellow Underwing, (TripTiccna fimhria) — A most splen- 

 did specimen of this species was procured this summer by me in the Den of 

 Eden, and is now added to my collection. This is a very rare species here, 

 so much so, in fact, that I have never met with nor seen another but the 

 one alluded to. 



The Small Tiger Moth, (Nemeophila plantaginis.) — This may be a little 

 more common insect than the last, but I have only met with two, one on 

 the Wagle Hill, parish of Monquhitter, and the other on the Clashraach, 

 Clashma, or Clashmack, a hill near Huntley, and which means a hill of 

 stones, or a stony hill. They are male and female, and are both in my own 

 collection. 



The Six-spotted Sphinx, or Burnet Moth, {Anthrocera filipendaloe.) — 

 Rummaging about the Bin, a large wood and district betwixt Keith and 

 Huntley, one warm and sunny day in July last, looking for what I could see, 

 and listening to what I could hear, I was most agreeably surprised and more 

 than delighted at coming upon five of these gaudy little gentlemen, all 

 within a compass of about six feet of each other, and all of which I 

 had the good and happy fortune of hoxing; not pugilistically, no! 

 for, believe me, courteous reader, I am the quietest man, I had almost said 

 the greatest coward alive, and am a member of the "Peace Society," that is, 

 one of the peaceful inhabitants of the quiet north, and do not in consequence 



