LEPIDOPTERA, ETC., AT SCOTTISH LIGHTHOUSES 85 



complete list of species forwarded from this lighthouse is as 

 follows ^ : — 



Lepidoptera. 



Arctia caja, L.— two ( (? ), end of July 19 13. 



Spilosoina menfhastri, Esp. — one ( ? ), June 1914. 



Dicranura vinula, L. — two (c? ?), end of April 1914. 



Notodonta dictaa, L. — one {$), end of July 1913. 



N. ziczac, L. — one ( ? ), end of April, and one {$) in 

 June 1914. 



Phalera bucephala, L.— three (<?), end of July 1913; two {$), 

 July 1914. 



Leucania cofitgera, Fab. — one ( ? ), July 19 14. 



Z. conwia, L. — one ( (^ ), July 1914. 



L. palkfis, L. — one ( ? ), i8th August 1914. 



Hydrcecia niditans^ Bork. — one ( c? ), i8th, and one 24th 

 August 1 914. 



H. micacea, Esp. — tw^o, ist September 19 13; one ( ? ), 24th 

 August 1 9 14. 



Xylophasia polyodon (L., non Clk.) — occurred on a number of 

 occasions; eighty-four specimens in all were sent, the largest 

 numbers taken on a single night being twenty-two (17 c(> 5 ?) 

 in the end of July 1913, and twenty-five in July 1914. One or 

 two were of the black variety. 



Charceas grami?ns, L. — two, ist September 19 13; two {S 9) 

 on i8th, and one (?) on 24th August 1914. 



Luperina testacea, Hb. — two {$ ?) on 14th, three (two of 

 black var.) on 18th, and two on 24th August 19 14. 



L. cespitis, Fb. — two (<?), night of 24th August 1914. 



Miifnesfra brassiccB, L. — one in first half of July 19 14. 



Apamea didyma, Esp. — one, 26th August 1913; seventeen about 

 middle of July, and two on i8th August 1914. 



Miana strigilis, Clk. — one {$), end of July 191 3. 



M. fascimicula, Haw. — four (3 (?, i ? ), middle of July 1914. 



Caradrina morpheus^ Hufn. — one, middle of July 1914. 



C. quadripuficfata, Fb. — one, early in July 1914. 



Agrotis sufusa, Hb. — one on 26th August, forty-two (chiefly 

 ^) on 19th September, and fourteen (11 cJ, 3 ? ) on 29th 

 September 191 3. 



1 In a box containing over sixty specimens received at the end of August 

 191 3, there were three Greyling Butterflies (_Sa/yrus semele), but in the absence 

 of any assurance that they were caught at the lantern, they have not been inchided 

 in the hst. 



