42 The Scottish Natural is!. 



genus Brackyderes, represented by four species. As two species 

 of this genus are also found on the fir in Sweden ; there is 

 reason to hope it may be yet discovered in Scotland. 

 Eccles. Thornhill, Dumfries-shire. 



Capture of Noctua sobrina — My brother and I paid a visit last summer 

 to Rannoch, and were fortunate enough to capture several specimens of the rare 

 Noctua sobrina. — T. HUTCHINS0N, Grantsfield, Leominster. 

 Dasypolia Templi — I see in the first number of the ' ' Scottish Naturalist" that 

 Dasypolia templi has been recorded from only two Scottish counties, — Perth and 

 Aberdeen. I can vouch for its occurrence in Fife. In October, 1868, a boy 

 brought me a male of this moth, taken flying at night about one hundred yards 

 from Balmuto House. In the month of July, 1869, I cut up all the diseased 

 stems of Hcraclcum near the place where the insect was taken ; most of these 

 contained the larvae or newly changed pupae of Depressaria heracleana, but in 

 one I found a flesh-coloured Noctua larva, about i}^ inches long, with black 

 specks on the sides, and a few short hairs springing from these specks, which I 

 suppose to have been the larva of D. templi. I dug up the plant and placed it 

 in a flower-pot, with gauze tied over the cut end of the stem, but on examining 

 it in September no trace of pupa or dead larva was visible. It was not till 

 August, 1869, that I became aware that the pupa of D. templi is to be found in 

 the stem of the food plant. In that month I grubbed up, at Seafield Tower, 

 near Kirkcaldy, a large brown Noctua pupa, somewhat like that of Phlogophora 

 mrticulosa, from which a fine female Dasypolia templi emerged about the 

 middle of September.— J. Boswell Syme, Balmuto, Kirkcaldy. 

 — Since Mr. Herd's notice of the capture of this moth, nine other specimens 

 have been found near Perth, all, I believe, at rest on stones. —A. Simpson, 

 High Street, Perth, Feb., 1871. 



Anticlea sinuata taken in Scotland.— In looking over Mr. T. Anderson's 

 collection of insects, recently, I noticed a specimen - of the above which had been 

 bred by him from a larva found near Forfar. Mr. Anderson did not know the 

 name of the moth, but remembered that the caterpillar which produced it was a 

 yellowish looper, and fed upon Galium verum. From Mr. Jenner Fust's 

 •' Distribution of Lepidoptera in Britain," it would appear that this species has 

 never been previously recorded from any locality in Britain north of Cambiidge. 

 - F. Buchanan White, Perth. 



Additions to tbe Scottisb Insect-]!rauna.— The following species are 

 noticed in the "Entomologist's Annual " for 1871 as occurring in Scotland. In 

 COLEOPTERA, — A mar a Quettscli, Schon., (Braemar, Hislop, ) ; Ocalea lati- 

 pentiis, Sharp, (Sharp and Hislop); Aleochara fungivora, Sharp, (Dumfries- 

 shire, Sharp) ; Oxypoda longipes, Mulsant, (Aberlady, Sharp) ; Placusa denticu- 

 lata, Sharp, (Rannoch and Strathglass, Sharp); Xantholiiius distans, Muls., 

 (Rannoch, Rye); Homalium brevicome. F.r., (Balmuto, Syme); Anacccna 

 variabilis, Sharp, (Sharp) ; Tomicus nigritus, Gyll., (Strathglass, Sharp). In 

 Lepidoptera, — Swammerdamia nanivora, Stainton, (Strathglass, Buchanan 

 White) ; Gelechia confinis, Stainton, (Perth, Buchanan White). Further parti- 

 culars will be found in the " Annual. " — Id. 



