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diu" attention to the probable habits of the insect sought, must, sooner or later, turn 

 it up. In the present instance, however, the work is unusually severe. I can give 

 no clue to the food-plant : the insects occurred on the most barren peaks, the only 

 constant herbage being heath and a woolly kind of moss, in which we found two 

 pupa cases, from one of which the moth had just emerged, and was sitting close by. 



• JEuplexia lucipara. Aplecta occulta, not rare, one specimen almost as 



light as two southern types in my cabinet, taken near Ipswich ; nebulosa ; tincta. 

 Hadena adusta, common, but worn out ; fisi ; contigua and rectilinea, appa- 

 rently all but over. Phisia v-auremn. Mania typica. Stilbia anomala, 



one fine var., smoky-black without markings. Fhytometra CBnea. 



Scoptda alpinalis, sparingly distributed over all the hills ; lutealis, Struan. 



Fionea forficalis. Eudorea scotica, a single specimen ; muralis ; atomalis = 



dispunctella, not uncommon on heath. Crambus pratellus ; ericellus ; margari- 



telltis ; tristellus, inqidnatellus and culinellus, fully as plentiful as in the south. 

 Phycis carbonariella, out of burnt heath. 



Tortrix ribeana ; viburnana ; Forsterana, small Scotch form. Amphysa 



Oerningana. Fenthina prcelongana ; ochromelana = dimidiana. Fai-dia 



tripunctana. Sericoris conchana, common at Kinloch ; lacunana ; urticana, 



white Scotch form ; Daleana, not uncommon in the Black Wood ; irriguana, high up. 



Mlxodia Schulziana, not uncommon on the hill tops ; palustrana ; ruhiginosana 



=^ Bouchardana. Sciaphila sinuana, on a mountain side ; subjectana, var. incer- 



tana ; virgaureana. Bactra lanceolana, abundant in the bogs, rather smaller 



than southern specimens. Grapholitha campoliliana ; Fenkleriana. Coccyx 



ustomaculana. Dicroramplia herbosana. ■ • Catoptria caiia. Eupcecilia 



angustana. — • Argyrolepia cnicana. Aphelia piratana = osseana. 



Tinea cloacella ; semifulvella. • Micropteryx aruncella. ■ Hypulepia 



costella. Depreasaria pulcherrimella. ■ ■ Gelechia diffinis ; terrella ; galban- 



ella ; notateUa. — — Uridrosis fenestrella. Glyphipteryx thrasonella, common 



among rushes. Argyresthia nitidella ; retinella ; sorbiella ; pygmcuella ; 



Gcedartella, and do., var. literella ; BrocJceella. Cedestis farinatella. 



Coleophora nigricella. Lithocolletis spinicolella. 



Fterophorus Loewli. 



Besides the above, five specimens occurred of a Gelechia which I am as yet 

 unable to identify. 



My thanks are due to Mr. 0. G-. Barrett for his kindness in naming a large 

 number of the above insects, with which I was not at all, or only partially, acquainted. 

 — F. D. Wheeler, Norwich : September 15th, 1876. 



P.S. — Uiider the head Fachnobia alpina, I omitted to mention that this is a 

 most variable, as well as beautiful, insect. In our specimens, the ground calour varies 

 from bright rosy, or, in one instance, delicate pink, to a deep steely-bluo. The 

 markings also differ much in extent and intensity. 



Occurrence of Epunda lutulenta, var. lueneburgensis, in Scotland. — On the 17th 

 September, I received from near Loch Laggan, Co. Inverness, three specimens (two 

 (? and one $ ) of a moth I thought I never saw before, which had been taken at 

 sugar on the night of the 15th September ; so I sent a neighbour of mine, Mr. W. 

 Greaseley, of Wallasey, a very observant entomologist, to work it up. Ho succeeded 



