7 he Scottish Naturalist. 179 



statement, appears to have taken a similar specimen in Finnland, 

 but only as an aberration, among others of the usual colour. Time 

 of flight is July. 



* 35. Cidaria didymata L. (Larentia didymatal) Wk. Norv. 

 Alp.; Sch. Fen.; Frey Alp.; Stdfs. Sil. Mont.; H. Here. Mont. 



I saw three males and two females. The males are darker than 

 with us (in Hanover) ; the colour of the females inclines more to 

 yellowish. Spread of wing somewhat greater. The species occurs 

 in almost the same form in the Upper Harz. Flies in August. 



36. Cidaria fluctuata L. (Melanippe fluctuata L.) Stgr. 

 and Wk. Lap.; Wk. Norv. Alp.; Sch. Fen.; Frey Alp.; Stdfs. Sil. 

 Mont. 



Apparently only one specimen of this species was taken in the 

 islands; it is figured in the Entomologist, 1880; tab. 4, fig. 6. It 

 appears to be quite dark, smaller, and with more pointed wings than 

 our (Hanoverian) form. Mr. Schilde has captured a small speci- 

 men with rather sharp-tipped wings in Finnland also. Dr. Staudin- 

 ger mentions for Lapland, and Prof. Frey for the Simplon and 

 Gadmen valleys, a form with almost pure white ground colour 

 (Sempionaria Ra), hence the species must vary exceedingly. 

 Flies in June. 



lo be con ti ?i tied. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL, 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE,-^, 

 1885.— Bersea pullata and Cruncecia irrorata bred ( r rom Scotch 



localities), by Kenneth J. Morton ; A Synopsis of the British 



Species of Cimbicidina, Hylotomina, Lophyrina, and 



Lydina, by P. Cameron, running through July, August, and September 

 numbers, gives tables of the genera and species of sawflies under the above 

 groups, since there is no prospect of the third volume of the "Monograph 

 of British Phytophagous Hymenoptera," before three years from now. 

 The Scotch species are enumerated among the others. August. — Ctl the 



Occurrence in Britain of Nepticula Nylandriella, probably 

 new to our Fauna (in Sutherlandshire in May) ; On the L^rvse of 

 Coccyx taedana and Euchromia flammeana and arbu- 



tana, rather common on Arctostaphylos UVa-ursi, in Sutherland- 

 shire ; both notes by A. F. Griffith. Lepidostoma hirtum bred, 

 from a quadrangular case, by K. J. Morton. September. — A Great 

 Swarm of Hydropsyche instabilis, Curt in Inverness- 

 shire, by J. J. King ; The Nitidulidae of Great Britain (con- 

 cluded), by Rev. W. W. Fowler. In this instalment of the paper the follow- 

 ing species are recorded from Scotland : — dps qnadripuslulaia L. from Avie- 

 more, Rannoch, Braemar, Falkirk, Alvie, and Forres; f itvophagas ferni- 

 gineus Fahr., from Braemar. Aviemore, and Ranncch ; Rhizophagus depressus 

 Fabr., and R . ferrugineus Payk, widely distributed ; R. nitidulus Fab., from 

 Rannoch ; R. dispar Gyll., from Braemar, Aviemore, and Rannoch ; R. bipics 

 tulatus Fabr. , common ; R. politus from Aviemore. 



