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Tlio pnpa is nbout ono-tliird of sm inch long, plump in clmraotrv, (ho ahdnmon 

 tapering rather suddenly to a point, which ends in two si ight ly diverging curled-topped 

 bristles, these last being attached to the threads that lino the cocoon ; its colour is 

 a light reddish-brown ; the tumid margins of the wing-covers yellowish-ochreous ; 

 the centres of the wings, and the antenna-cases, olive ; the tip of the abdomen 

 Mack.— Id. : August Uik, 1874-. 



Capture of Noctua sohrina. — I have had the good fortune to discover a ncw^ 

 locality for Noctua sobrina, in a heathy pLicc some distance south of Loch Tlannoch, 

 Perthshire. Last spring I accidcntly found an injured larva of what was (from the 

 description given m Mr. Stainton's Manual) so suggestive of 2V. sobrina, that I 

 determined to woi'k for the perfect insect when due. I was rewarded by taking 

 several specimens, and also by obtaining eggs which I duly sent to Messrs. Buckler 

 and Hellins for future notes. I find this species exceedingly local in its habitat. — 

 Joay T. Carringtok, Poole Eoad, Egremont, Birkenhead: August \st, 1871j. 



Capture of Paclmobia alpina. — I had the pleasure of capturing a specimen of 

 this fine and rare species this summer in Perthshire. It was taken in the Breadal- 

 banc division (as divided by Dr. White in his Fauna Ferthensis) , close to the summit 

 of a mountain of upwards of 3000 feet in height. 



It may interest some of your readers to know that this was the only result of 

 fourteen whole nights and several days spent at that height. I sugared each night, 

 but it produced nothing but an occasional Noctua fesiiva. The nights spent at 

 this altitude were alternate, the other evenings were occupied by sugaring in the 

 valley where I stayed ; these latter sugarings produced many moths, so that the 

 paucity of moths at sugar on the mountains could not be the result of a bad season. 

 Considering the result, and the extreme discomfort of mountain tops at night, for I 

 was many times enveloped in thick clouds for hours together, I do not think it 

 worth while to work again for this cloud-loving species. 



I believe there are only four previous records of this species being taken in 

 Great Britain, viz. : the two named in the "Manual; " a third, by Mr. Eedlo, on 

 Schichallion, in 1870 ; and one bred from a pupa found while hunting for Coleoptera 

 in Braemar in 1873 (vide ante, x, 88), by Mr. Allin. These may be called acci- 

 dental captures, so I feel a little more pleasure in having gone for and obtained this 

 species. — In. 



On the larva of Noctua subrosea. — From M. Bei'g's description (ti-anslated in 

 your last number, p. G7) of the larva of the Russian Noctua considered to be a 

 variety of subrosea by Dr. Staudinger, I am inclined to think it will prove to be a 

 distinct species. 



I sent living larvrc of our subrosea to my friend M. Guence, who thus describes 

 them: — " The caterpillar is very pretty : it is of a greyish -flesh colour, striated and 

 " marbled with brown, with the vascular and sub-dorsal lines somewhat large, clearly 

 " defined, continuous, straight, and of a citron-yellow speckled with brown ; the latter 

 " sjjeckled on the lower part with reddish-yellow. The stigmatal line is very large, 

 " of a pale sulphur-yellow, and surmounts a dt>ep brown ventral band ; stigmata 

 "liVMWn • )ii':iil .•ciiu'iilnrniis willi two iliirlc iiiMi'ks." 



