188 [Augtist, 



Notes on Lepidoptera at Loivextoft . — On Sunday, the 17th, I was at Lowestoft, 

 and was surprised to see two Macroglossa stellatarum busy among the flowers. 

 It did not occur to me to think whether they were hibernated specimens ; but there 

 was nothing to suggest it. In the afternoon on the cliff I watched for some time 

 a very fresli looking Pyrameis cardui. Must one regard that as hibernated? I 

 never saw either in June before. A white atom floating across as we sat in the 

 garden proved to be Elachisfa hiatomella. I found a newly emerged Arctia villica, 

 crushed and damaged. — Feancis Jenkinson, 10, Brookside, Cambridge : June 

 29th, 1900. 



[We think it probable that the fresh looking examples of P. cardui noticed 

 recently had hibernated in this country, and were not immigrants, — Eds.]. 



Diplodoma marginepunctella, Stph., in Scotland. — In the June No. of this 

 Magazine {ante p. 132) Mr. E. R. Bankes records the capture of this moth in Dumbar- 

 tonshire in 1898, under the impression that no previous record of its occurrence in 

 Scotland exists. I would, tlicrefore, point out that it is included in the late Sir 

 Thomas Moncrieffe's excellent list of the Lepidoptera of Moncrieffe Hill, Perth- 

 shire, published in " The Scottish Naturalist " more than twenty years ago (see vol. 

 V, p. 24, of that Journal). — William Etans, 38, Mornlngside Park, Edinburgh : 

 July iUh, 19U0. 



Nepa cinerea, L., in Scotland. — With reference to Mrs. G. W. Kirkaldy's 

 record, in this Magazine for 1899 (p. 49), of the occurrence of the " Water Scorpion " 

 at Methven Bog, Perthshire, in August, 1898, perhaps I may be allowed to call 

 attention to the fact that the species is included in Stewart's list of Edinburgh 

 insects published in 1809 (Wernerian Society's Memoirs), and in Don's Forfarshire 

 list, 1813 (Headrick's Agriculture of the County). The insect is, I feel sure, not 

 uncommon in Scotland. In the Marshes on the Braid Hills, close to Edinburgh, it 

 used to be common (I first met with it there about 35 years ago), and I have also 

 taken it several times in the Union Canal near here. It has also occurred to me at 

 Portobello in 1895 ; at Luffness (East Lothian) in 1898 ; and at Oban in 1894. — 

 Id. 



Note on the habits of Maohilis maritima, Leach. — During the middle of July, 

 1899, I observed great numbers of this Thysanuron about the rocky cliffs bordering 

 the sea shore, between Aberystwyth and Clarach. When disturbed they were to be 

 seen gliding swiftly over the surface of the bare rock, the latter being frequently at 

 an almost perpendicular angle ; they seem to travel only for a short distance, and 

 then to take up their resting position, i. e., by insinuating themselves in some narrow 

 chink. It was found that they were by no means easily aroused, for they often 

 forced themselves deeper into the cranny in which they were lying, clinging remarka- 

 bly tenaciously, and then darting out suddenly. One or two examples were seen 

 hurriedly traversing some adjacent boulders on the shore, but their great stronghold 

 was the face of the cliff itself. Lubbock (Monograph of Collem. and Thys.) makes 

 very little mention as to the habits of the species, but it is well known that the usual 

 habitat for this species is under rocks and boulders. Sharp (Ins., pt. i) states that 

 in more Southern Europe species are met with very commonly on the perpendicular 



