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to force them to feed up with heat, but they seem determined to 

 hybernate. Perhaps some of your readers will be able to give a few 

 hints as to how they should be carried over the winter ? I spent my 

 holidays in July this year at Ravenscraig, in Renfrewshire, and 

 never had such a wretched fortnight's collecting. The evenings were 

 cold, with an east wind almost blowing a gale all the time. Dcmjdia 

 obfmcata was over when I got there on the 17th, only three being 

 obtained at rest. Carsia paludata var. imhutata, Laicntia olivata, 

 L. cacxiata and Coreuiia munitata were all very scarce ; Hupsiin'tcsclutata 

 very abundant, and of which I obtained a few fine red aberrations. 

 Single specimens oiPlusiafestncae, Celaena hawurtliii and Lj/copJtofia 

 strigula (porplujrea) were netted. Sugar would not attract Noctuids, 

 nothing but centipedes, snails and earwigs. Pamplusia mercuriann 

 (monticolana) was common ; Tortrix viburninna and Amphisn 

 gerningana scarce. Ghrysophanus phlaeas, Polyoiamatus icnrus, and 

 Aglais urticae were all the Diurni I took. A. urticae was going into 

 hybernation at that early date, several being seen in the house, and I 

 have not seen a single specimen on the wing since then. In August, 

 Polia clii was common on the walls, closer to the city than usual. 

 AnchoceJis litura, Gitria fulcago and C. flavago scarce. I obtained a 

 good number of larvae of Eujjithecia helveticafa from the juniper, but 

 50% at least were ichneumoned. In September, about the only insect 

 taken was Tapinostola fulca. I made one journey for Phibalapteryx 

 lapidata to the Lanarkshire hills, and obtained about two dozen ; only 

 about half of them were worth setting. I spent four days at Ardlui 

 at the end of the month, and sugared every evening. I obtained two 

 Miselia oxyacanthae, one Orrhodia vaccinii, one Culocampn vetnsta 

 and one Euplexia lucipara (second brood). The larviu of Phalera 

 bucephala had been very common there ; whole willow bushes, and 

 large branches of oak and alder being stripped of their foliage. — 

 A. Adie Dalglish, 40, Princes Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow. 



Collecting on the east coast of Scotland. —The season (1896) 

 opened hereabout the last week of March, when hybernating larvje of 

 Bomhyx rubi, Spilosomd fuUgiiioan and Bombyx crt//?r7K/*' began to put 

 in an appearance, followed a month later by those of Nemeophila 

 plantaginis, Dasychira f<isc Una, Tricliiura crataegi and Noctnn 

 neglecta in some numbers. The most noteworthy feature about the 

 spring larvie was the great abundance of Arctid caia, which actually 

 swarmed everywhere throughout the north-east of Scotland. In 

 Orkney I found them in extraordinary numbers, crawling across the 

 road between Kirkwall and Stromness, many of them crushed by foot- 

 passengers and passing vehicles. Hitherto, I have found a few larvae 

 of Fhisia inter rog alio at s on heather, every year, but this season not a 

 single one turned up. Sallows began to work about the first week of 

 April, the usual Tiianiocampids were common, Panolis piniperda 

 especially so. Of this a few green forms were taken, also some nice 

 banded and variegated Taeniocampa instabilis. On April IHtli I netted a 

 single specimen of Breplios parthenias in the Blackball Woods, Kincar- 

 dineshire, which is only the third recorded specimen for this district, 

 and the first for that county. Sugar during May was, with the 

 exception of a very few Hadena glauca, Pliaretra menyantliidh and 

 Mamestra albtcoJou, almost blank. During June it paid niuch better. 

 Hadena rectiliuea, H, adusta, Noctua brunnea, Apamea gemina, and 



