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bilineata, Swordale, common, imago, July 19th, 1908. Cidaria 

 siterata, Swordale, common. C. miata, Swordale, common, Tarbat 

 Ness lighthouse, autumn, 1908 ; Stirkoke, Wick, larva beaten 

 from willow, September 25th, 1907. 0. corylata, Swordale, 

 common ; Loch Maree, imago, June 2nd, 1908 ; Dornoch, larva, 

 September 26th, 1906 ; Stirkoke, Wick, larva, September 27th, 



1907. C. truncata, Swordale, common, imago, July 7th, 1908. 

 C. inimanata, Swordale, common, imago, August 16th, 1908. C. 

 siijfuwata, Swordale, common, imago. May 20th, 1908. C. dlaceata, 

 Swordale, fairly common, imago, June 11th, 1908. C. prunata, Swor- 

 dale, larvae feeding on gooseberry, June 24th, 1907. C testata, 

 Swordale, common, larva, June 25th, 1908. C, popiilata, Swordale, 

 common, larvae swept from blaeberry, May 7th, 1908, from sallow. 

 Loch Usie, Strathpefier, June 20th, 1908, imago, July 19th, 1908 ; 

 Stirkoke, Wick, September 6th, 1908. C, fulvata, Swordale, common, 

 imago, September 10th, 1907 ; Balmacara, West Ross, larvje feeding 

 on garden rose, June 14th, 1907. FJnbolia limitata, Swordale, com- 

 mon on low ground, especially near the sea, Nigg, August 26th, 1908. 

 E. plumbaria, Swordale, very local, frequenting a certain hillside, 

 where Genista awjlica grows amongst the heather, imago, June 26th, 



1908. Carsia palmlata, Swordale, not very common, frequenting the 

 boggy parts of the moor, imago, August 6th, 1908. Anaitis pla(jiata, 

 Swordale, not very common, imago, August 16th, 1907. Chesias 

 spartiata, Swordale, common, imago taken at the lighthouse, Tarbat 

 Ness, autumn, 1908. C. rufata, Swordale, imago taken at light, May 

 11th, 1906. 



Pyralides. — Scopidd alpinalis, two moths flying on a dull day on 

 the higher slopes of Ben Wyvis, on July 16th, 1908 ; several more in 

 the same locality, July 22nd, 1908, disturbed from the dripping grass 

 to fly briskly away with usually rather a high flight, and often 

 disappearing in a tantalizing manner over the edge of a clift' ; one 

 specimen taken as low down as about 1500 feet. Scopttla lutealis, 

 Swordale, common, September 8th, 1907 (imago); Stirkoke, Wick, 

 imago, September 6th, 1908. Pijramta ostrinalis, Swordale, fairly 

 common, imago, June 21st, 1908. Herbida cespitalis, Swordale, fairly 

 common, imago. May 31st, June 25th, and August 9th, 1908. Botys 

 fnscalh, Stratbpeffer, imago, June 20th, 1908 ; Falls of Conon, imago, 

 May 30th, 1908. Pionea forjicalis, Swordale, taken at light, August, 

 1907. Botys terrealis feeding on SoUdayo viryanrea, on the sea cliffs 

 at Fortrose, September 24th, 1908. Hydrocawpa nyniphaeata, Kincraig, 

 Invergordon, flying over a marsh July 27th, 1907. 



Alucitides. — Gilhneria pallidactyla, Swordale, imago, August 6th, 

 1907. Plattjptilia yonodactyla, Swordale, resting on ragwort, August 

 30th, 1908. Aiiiblyptilia cosmodactyla (acanthodactyla), imago resting 

 on heather, Kincraig, Invergordon, September 4th, 1907 ; Swordale, 

 resting on Michaelmas-daisy, November 3rd, 1908 ; imago swept from 

 scabious, September 27th, 1908. A. pnnctidactyla, Swordale, common, 

 larvse feeding in seed-vessels of primrose, cowslip, and polyanthus, 

 July 13th, 1908. [For foodplants hitherto recorded for this species, 

 see Nat. Hist. Brit. Lep., v., p. 307. — Ed.] 



Orneodides. — Orneodes he.vadacti/la, Swordale, larvae feeding in buds 

 of wild honeysuckle (woodbine) July 21th, 1908, imago reared October 

 2nd, 1908. 



Crambides. — Crambiis pratellus, Swordale, abundant, imago. May 



