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ENTOMOLOGIST, 1883.— February (p. 45) Supposed occurrence 

 of Anarta melaleuca in Scotland, by Wm. Watkins, in a collection pur- 

 chased by him ; believed to have been captured in Scotland, but captor dead. 

 March (p. 62) Ypsipetes elutata, by Wm. Reid, Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, 

 records dark form reared from larvae taken on ling in Aberdeenshire, and 

 larger form in lower woods feeding on sallow. Jicne (p. 138) New British 

 Trichopteron, by J. J. King, records from near Dumfries, taken by Mr 

 Service, Mesophylax aspersus Ramb. var. July (p. 161) Lepidoptera, 

 near Edinburgh, by A. E. J. Carter, butterflies scarce, moths more plenti- 

 ful, Bombyces 4, Geometers 11, Noctuae 30, nothing specially noteworthy. 

 October (p. 235) Sphinx Convolvuli in Aberdeen, by John Mundie ; 

 Acherontia Atropos near Edinburgh, by A. E. J. Carter. November (pp. 

 245-46) Lepidoptera near Melrose, by Wilfred W. O. Beveridge, records 

 numerous species, but accuracy of list seems doubtful. Most noteworthy are 

 Vanessa Cardui, V. polychloros, Larentia suffumata, Cidaria pyraliata, Thera 

 simulata, Odontia dilutata, Plusia iota (very plentiful), larvae of Notodonta 

 camelina common on Birch, and of Arctia villica and of A. fuliginosa on 

 almost every wayside herb. 



"Entomologist." — {January 1884). — The Macro-lepidoptera of Unst, by 

 J. Jenner-Weir, F. L.S., F.Z.S., records captures made by Mr M 'Arthur in 

 Unst during 1883, from the end of May till the end of September, and supple- 

 ments former papers referred to in Scottish Naturalist. Several vary consider- 

 ably as compared even with the same species from the Mainland of Shetland. 

 The following species are new to the records for Shetland : — Sphinx Convolvuli, 

 Agrotis cursoria, A. lucent ea, Noctua glareosa, N. xanlhographa, Hadena 

 exulis, and coloured figures are given of varieties of these. {July) 

 Rannoch, by John T. Carrington, F.L.S. (with maps), is an interesting 

 account of this renowned Perthshire district from the point of view of a Lepi- 

 dopterist. The Genera Hydrochus, Ochthebius, and Hydraena, by Rev. 

 W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. , mentions the habits, modes of capture, and 

 distinguishing characters and habitats of an obscure and difficult group of water- 

 beetles. The following are specially recorded from Scotland : — H. brevis 

 Herbst., from Perth and Dumfries ; Hydraena nigrita Germ., from Glasgow ; 

 H. angustala Sturm., from Falkirk and Glasgow ; H. gracilis Germ., H. atri- 

 capilla Wat., from Ochil Hills. Several other species are recorded as common 

 throughout Britain. {September) A Week's Collecting in Unst, by Charles 

 A. Briggs, records the captures of Lepidoptera, made during a stay from 9th to 

 19th July ; of these Mamestra Brassira, Agrotis suffusa, Triphcena subseaua, 

 Apamea oculea, and Hadena oleracea are new to Shetland. Crymodes exulis 

 in Unst, by E. R. Curzon. {October) Rannoch in June, by A. H. Jones, 

 deals specially with the Torlrices. Description of a Eupithecia new to 

 science (E. Curzoni, Gregson), by C. S. Gregson, describes the larva, pupa, 

 and imago of a "Pug " moth, taken by Mr Roper-Curzon feeding on Calluna 

 vulgaris at Balta Sound in Unst. The form was figured in the Entomologist 

 vol. XIV., pi. I, fs. 2 and 3, and was regarded as a variety of E. 

 nanata or of E. satyrata. Epunda nigra in Perthshire, by Elizabeth Cross. 

 (December) Eupithecia nanata var. Curzoni, by H. M 'Arthur, asserts that 

 the supposed new species is no more than a form of E. nanata. An editorial 

 note refers to an article in the Stettin Enlomologische Zeitung (XLV. 353-75), 

 by August Hoffmann, on The Lepidoptera of the Shetland Isles, with notices of 



