1899.] 69 



with notes, some of which I have embodied in this paper. Among 

 the seven species represented two prove to be new to the British 

 list. 



(1.) Lepfophlehia Meijeri, Etn., which had previously been known 

 only from Switzerland and the Netherlands was described from Swiss 

 specimens of the ^ in 1884 \_cf. Eaton: " Eevisional Monograph of 

 the Ephemeridce'' Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2) Zool , vol. iii, pp. 95 and 

 320, pi. xi, 17a] 



The fore-wings of the subimago are uniformly light grey ; hind-wings impure 

 yellowish-white. 



Mr. Eaton says that the paleness of the hind-wings of the subimago suggests 

 that L. Meyeri may possibly prove to be identical with the Linnean Ephemera 

 vesperfina, a species to be re-discovered in its original locality. 



I found the species on the moor above the Black Wood near a 

 little lochan called Eusg-a-Bhiora, which is marked on the Ordnance 

 Map and also on the map in the "Entomologist," vol. xvii, p. 145. 

 This lochan is 1,226 feet above sea level, Loch Rannoch itself being 

 only 668 feet. They were not flying over the lochan itself, but 

 fluttering over the boggy moor immediately about it, and as I walked 

 along they rose in countless swarms. I secured a good representative 

 series as I saw it was a species I had not met with before, but regret 

 that my acquaintance with the Ephemeridce was not sufiicient to enable 

 me more fully to appreciate its interest. 



(2.) Ameletus inopinatus, Etn., both genus and species new to 

 Britain. 



This species, of which single examples were discovered by Mr. 

 McLachlan in 1885 in the Schwarzwald and in 1883 in the Vosges, 

 was described by Mr. Eaton in the " Revisional Monograph," p. 307, 

 pi. Ixv, 13 ((^ genitalia) [1SS7]. Amel e hi shelowgs. to the third group 

 of the Ephempridce, its place in our list being before Siphlurus. 



On the afternoon of the 8th June I beat a solitary specimen of 

 the (J imago from a bush on the shore of Loch Rannoch just where 

 the Dall burn falls into the Loch. 



The other species of Ephemeridcd taken during our stay will be 

 mentioned by Mr. King in a paper on the Neuropterous results of 

 our visit. 



Rock House, Lynmouth : 



Fehruary \Wi, 1899. 



Precocity of Qracilaria syringella, Fab., or hibernation 1 — The question is 

 suggested by my seeing a moth of this species that came in at a window of my house 

 this morning about 10 a.m., when the out-door temperature was 54° F. in the shade. 

 The specimen was in good condition. — A. E. Eaton, Woodlands, Seaton, Devon : 

 February lUh, 1899. 



