LEPIDOPTERA, ETC., AT SCOTTISH LIGHTHOUSES I33 



I (^ ; Dasypolia templi^ 9 $ and 3 9 ; Plusia gamma, 2 ^ ; Pliitella 

 dahlia, 6. 



North Unst Lighthouse. 



From this station the following were received on 23rd August, 

 most of them being additions to its list: — 



1. Taken at Shore Station on 4th, 15th, and i6th July: — 

 Hepialus hitmuli v. hethlandica, i $ and i ? ; H. lupulinus, i ; 

 Agrotis strigula, 2 ; Hadena dentina, i $ ; Melanippe flucfuata, 3 ; 

 Cidaria ccEStata, i ; Aphelia osseana, Scop, {pratana, Hb.), i ; 

 Plutella cruciferarum, i ; and the Caddis-fly, Halesus radiatus, i $ . 



2. Caught at lighthouse lantern, on 7th and 8th August : — 

 Charccas graminis, i $ ; Noctua festiva, dark var., 2 ^ and i $ ; 

 Cidaria ccEsiata, i; Sciaphila pefiziana \. colquhoiinana, 6; Plutella 

 annulatella, i ; also Stenophylax permistiis, i (J . 



3. Taken at Shore Station, 9th to nth August: — Hepialus 

 Juanuli v. hethlandica, \ $ \ H. velleda, i (^^ ; Mamestra brassicce, i ; 

 Agrotis strigula, i (J and i 9 ; Noctua glareosa, 1 ^ ; N. festiva, 

 dark var., 9; Hadena adusta, i $ ; Cidaria ccesiata, 5; and Stetio- 

 phylax permistus, i (^ . 



Tlie specimens of Noctua festiva all belong to the dark form from 

 Shetland figured as var. borealis in Barrett's " British Lepidoptera." 



Neuroptera (in the Linnaean sense) from Inverness- 

 shire.- — Under this title Kenneth J. jMorton records {Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., May 191 6, pp. 114-116) the following species taken in the 

 Lochaber district (between the rivers Treig and Spean), during the 

 month of July last : — ^schna ccerulea, ^. jiincea, Somatochlora 

 arctica, Cordt/legaster annulatus, Leucorrhinia dubia, Libellula 

 quadrimaculata, Enallagma cyathigerum, Pyrrhosoma nymphula, 

 Perla maxima, P. cephalotes, Chloroperla grammatica, Isopteryx 

 torrentium, Nemoura variegata, N. cijierea, N. cambrica, N 

 inconspicua, Leuctra klapaleki, L. albida, L. iuermis, Panorpa 

 germanica, Hemerobius mortoui, H. stigma, H. pini, H. atrifrons, 

 H. orotypus, H. lutescens, H. margi7iata, H. conciunus, H. quadri- 

 fasciatus, Chrysopa vittata, C. alba, Sialis lutaria, Phrygauea 

 obsoleta, Limnophilus luridus, L. auricula, L. centralis, L. vittatus, 

 L. griseus, L. sparsus, Stenophylax stellatus, Lepidostoma hirtum, 

 Crunoecia irrorata, Sericostoma personatum, Odontocerum albicorne, 

 Leptocerus aterrimus, CEcetis ochracea, Mystacides azurea. Hydro- 

 psyche instabilis, H. pellucidula, Polycentropus flavomaculatus, 

 Philopotamus mo nt anus, Tinodes wancri, and Hydroptila femoralis. 



