1 6 Tht Scottish Naturalist. 



accident to that which brought the Lucina Pennsylvanica into the same day's 

 dredgings, but as four species were obtained, and of some of them several 

 specimens, it appears very probable that they lived and died at or near the place 

 where they were found. '' 



A LIST OF THE NOCTURE OCCURRING IN MORAYSHIRE. 



BY GEORGE NORMAN. 



OWING to bad health, some three years ago, I first came to 

 Morayshire, and since then have resided, more or less, 

 at the Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment at Forres. 



For an occupation and amusement I took to my old study, 

 Entomology, after a long lapse of above twenty-five years. For 

 the entomologist — or indeed, I may say, general naturalist — 

 no county in Britain affords a richer, more varied, and beautiful 

 hunting ground. 



Word painting not being my forte, I refer those who wish to 

 know more about the scenery of this glorious country to tha 

 works of the late C. St. John, in " Murray's Home and Colonial 

 Library," and for more recent Natural History reports, to a few 

 notes of my own occasionally contributed to "The Zoologist." 



My object in the present notes is to point out to entomo- 

 logists the richness of the country round Forres for Lepidoptera, 

 and more especially the Noctuidcz, to which my attention has 

 been almost exclusively directed. 



To the admirable list of Morayshire Lepidoptera contributed 

 to "The Zoologist" in 1 86 1, by the Rev. Dr. Gordon of Birnie, 

 I have added many species of Noctuce, bringing the number up 

 to nearly the half of the recorded British species. With few ex- 

 ceptions, the whole of the insects have been obtained by sugar- 

 ing, in the beautiful wooded grounds attached to the Cluny Hill 

 Hydropathic. When the high moors, the Culbin Sands, and the 

 Forests of Darnaway and Altyre, have been more thoroughly 

 explored, beyond doubt the list of species will be considerably 

 augmented. 



