176 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Occurrence of Zelleria sasifragse Stt. in Scotland.— When out one 

 day, last July, collecting in Braemar, Mr. Traill directed my attention to a 

 small moth at rest on a stone. This moth I boxed, and on examination find 

 that it is Zelleria saxifrages Stt., a species not met with before in Britain. It 

 may be distinguished from Z.fasciapennella by "its whiter, neater appearance, by 

 the medial fascia starting more obliquely from near the inner margin, and not 

 reaching even to the subcostal nervure, and by the sharp darker lines in the 

 apical cilia. : ' Z. saxifrages was first taken in the Engadine, and subsequently 

 on the Kaiserberg, near Oberaudorf. The larva has been found feeding on 

 Saxifraga aizoon, but as that plant is not a native of Britain, it probably also 

 feeds on Saxifraga aizoides, among which plant my specimen was taken. The 

 imago and larva are described and figured in the eleventh volume of the Natural 

 History of the Tineina, p. 116, and pi. III., fig. 3.— -F. Buchanan White. 



Capture of Steganoptycha augustana H.— I have been fortunate enough 

 to take a specimen of this pretty rarity near Paisley. — J. Dunsmore, Castle- 

 head, Paisley, February, 1872. [This is probably the third specimen taken in 

 Britain. The first was taken by Lord Walsingham, in the county of Durham 

 in 1866. I took another specimen (not hitherto recorded) in Rannoch in 1867. 

 As stated in the Ent. Mo. Mag., v., 252, the species standing in our list as 

 Steganoptycha (or Hypermecia) augustana H. is cruciana L. — Editor Sc. A r at.] 



New Locality for Mixodia Bouchardana.— I have met with an example 

 of this moth here.— Id. 



Note on Lasiocampa potatoria.— Has it been noticed that in Scotland 

 the larva hybernates full fed, like that of Bombyx rubi? It is so in Bute and 

 Mull, the only places where I have seen this moth in Scotland. Near London, 

 &c, it is met with half-grown in autumn, and feeds up to June, so that in 

 Scotland the moth appears about two months earlier than in the south of 

 England.— J. Boswell Syme, Balmuto House, by Kirkcaldy, Feb. 12, 1872. 



[I have only seen this species in the south-west of Scotland, and there in 

 autumn the larvae were less than one-third grown. Can any of the readers of the 

 ''Scottish Naturalist " give further information as to the habits of this species 

 in Scotland ?— Editor Sc. Nat.} 



Early Captures of Lepidoptera.— As this season appears to be unusually 

 early, I send a note of the dates of some of my captures :— January 30, Phigalia 

 pilosaria, Sarrothripa revayana; February 12, Hybernia leucophcearia ; February 

 20, Hybernia progemmaria ; February 21, Anisopteryx cescularia ; February 

 22, Trachea pi niperda; March 3, Tceniocampa gothica, T. stabilis ; March 6, 

 Asphaliaflavicornis; March 5-7, Tceniocampa cruda, T. iustabilis, Epigraph i a. 

 avellanella. — Thos. Moncrieffe, Moncrieffe House, by Perth, March, 1872. 



Sesia bembeeiformis.— Dr. Boswell-Syme is in error when he states at 

 p. 154 of the " Scottish Naturalist" that this species is not admitted as a 

 native of Scotland in my " Distribution of Lepidoptera," as a second inspection 

 will convince him. When this was published, the evidence only seemed satis- 

 factory with respect to one sub-province ; other localities have since been 

 recorded. — II. Jenner-Fust, Jun., Hill Court, Gloucestershire. 



