1 8 The Scottish Naturalist. 



cosa, not uncommon, especially on a large sallow on the Califer Hill ; T. insta- 

 bilis, abundant ; T. stabilis, abundant ; Orthosia suspecta, rare ; Anchocelis ru- 

 fina, abundant ; A. litura, abundant ; A. macilenta, common ; Cerastis vaccina, 

 in the utmost profusion, — some very pretty varieties, suffused with black blotches, 

 or relieved with lake blue, are common on the Cluny Hills ; Scopdosoma satel~ 

 litia, very common ; Xanthia cerago, common at sugar, especially near the 

 Ferry,— the pale variety, fiavescens, also common; X. silago, occasionally on 

 the Cluny Hills ; X. ferruginea, everywhere ; Eupena fulvago, not uncommon, 

 on the Cluny Hills, at sugar ; Cosmia trapezina, abundant ; Dianthcecia copsin- 

 cola, abundant, flying over the flowers of Lychnis vcspertina, — the larvae abun- 

 dant in the capsules ; D. cucubali, larvae on Silene infiata, near the Bay of 

 Findhorn ; Folia chi, abundant, very conspicuous by day at rest on the pine 

 trees ; Epunda lutulenta, several on flowers of heather, and one under a stone 

 on Scrapehard Farm ; E. nigra, abundant at sugar, Cluny Hill ; Miselia oxy- 

 acanthce, abundant at sugar ; Agriopis aprilina, frequent. Cluny Hill ; Phlogo- 

 phora meticulosa, abundant ; Euplexia lucipara, not unfrequent, especially on 

 the Califer Hill ; Aplecta occulta, occasionally on the Cluny Hills ; A. nebulosa, 

 not uncommon ; Hade?ia adusta, not uncommon ; H. protea, abundant ; H. 

 glauca, occasionally ; H. dentina, not unfrequent ; H, pisi, larvae near the 

 Water Reservoir,— also the moth, at Edgehill ; H. ohracea, common ; H. tha- 

 lassina, common ; H. contigua, at sugar occasionally, near the Ferry; H. recti- 

 linea, at sugar on the Califer Hill ; Calocampa vetusta, common at sugar, Cluny 

 Hill ; C. exoleta, swarming, as many as ten on one tree ; Xylina rhizolitha, rare, 

 Cluny Hill ; Cucullia umbratica, over flowers. Cluny Hill ; Heliothis marginata, 

 at sugar, near the Ferry, — Ononis arvensis, the food plant, grows in profusion 

 there ; Anarta myrtilli, very frequent wherever heather abounds ; A. cordigera, 

 recorded from "Knock Frink" ; Brephos parthenias, very common, flying over 

 birches in Altyre Woods ; B. notha, with the preceding ; Habrostola urtica>, rare, 

 Cluny Hill ; Plusia chrysitis, occasionally ; P. bractea, taken by the Rev. Dr. 

 Gordon at Birnie ; P. festuctz, over flowers of Lychnis vespertina ; P. iota, 

 rare, Cluny Hill ; P. V.-aureum, common over Lychnis; P. gam?na, abundant ; 

 P. interrogations, took a specimen on the Califer Hills, — no doubt it is more 

 common on the high grounds near Dallas ; Gonoptera libatrix, has occurred in 

 the district ; Amphipyra tragopoginis, common ; Mania typica, very abundant 

 near the Ferry, but has not occurred on the Cluny Hills ; Stilbia anomala, 

 abundant, Cluny Hill ; Phylometra xnea, on the Califer Hill, also among heather 

 near the Culbin Sands. 



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" Sugaring" near Paisley — The following is a list of Noctuce, which came 

 to sugar between the middle of June and end of October this season. A. pisi, 

 common ; A. rumicis and L. impura, not rare ; pallens, common ; H. nictitans, 

 several; petasitis, one specimen; micacea, not rare; A. putris, several ; X, ru- 

 rea, liihoxylea, and folyodon, in swarms ; M. anccps not rare ; brassier, A. 

 basilinea, gemina, oculea, M. strigilis, and fasciuncula, all common ; areuosa, 

 rare (at sugar) ; C. blanda, rare ; cubicularis, abundant ; R. tencbrosa, A. suf- 

 fusa, segetum, and exclamationis, common ; porphyrea, not rare ; T. orbona, 

 pronuba, N, augur, plecta, C-nigrutn, abundant ; brunnea, several ; f estiva, 



