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the groups of Macro-Lepidoptera were very scarce ; Micros appearing not to suffer 

 to the same extent, although in both gi'oups I have added species which I had not 

 formerly taken here. Among the former, Demas coryli, bred from larvte on sloe 

 and sallow, and, although scarce, it appears pretty genei-ally distributed in the dis- 

 trict. Asp Hates strigillaria I found pretty commonly in one locality, and took a 

 good series in fine condition, and of Eupithecia satyrata, exiguata, sohrinata, and 

 tenuiata, the latter very abundantly ; I also took some beautiful fresh specimens of 

 pygmceata, but at that time a course of boisterous and wet weather followed, and 

 lalthough I saw many specimens they wei'e all more or less weather-beaten, and so, 

 of little value. Of 3Iicro-Lepidoptera I took the following : Tortrix icterana, 

 vihurnana, Xanthosetia hamana, Argyrolepia cnicana, Amphysa gerningiana, Salo- 

 nota trigeminana, Spilonota suffusana, Cnephasia jwlitana, Pamplusia monticolana, 

 Dicrorampha Petwerella, Ochsenheimeria BirdeUa, Pleurota hicostella, Gracilaria 

 tringipennella, Coleophora albicosta, Lithocolletis Spinolella, and Pteropliorus Per- 

 trami. Mr. Barrett has identified all the species enumerated. — A. Elliot, Laurieston, 

 Jedburgh, N.B. : January I5th, 1883. 



Note. — I reared a fine series of P. quercus, var. calluncB, the larvae being fed 

 exclusively on poplar and hawthorn. — A. E. 



Destruction of Saturnia carpini hy parasites, Sfc. — In the spring of 1880, I 

 collected from heather, in this locality, somewhere about fifty cocoons of Saturnia 

 carpini, the most of which presented an abnormal appearance, being very much 

 discoloured, others had a small hole cut out of the side of the cocoons, these being 

 quite empty. The perforated cocoons have been torn open, probably, by mice, and 

 the pupsB extracted, being quite empty, no remains of pupa or larva-skin being visible. 

 Two of the coccons contained a dead moth-pupa and a smaller rounded reddish pupa, 

 being the pupa of a Musca ; and the cocoons, with a -mass of maggots at the bottom, 

 produced Cryptus fumipennis, and plenty of the females of Pezomachus insolens, 

 wliich were named by Mr. J. B. Bridgman. In one of the pupae which was not 

 quite normal in appearance, were three or four rather large white larvae which I 

 unfortunately destroyed. In the following July, I tliink, when crossing the same 

 piece of heather, I picked up one or two discoloured cocoons, which, upon opening, 

 I found to contain a yellowish cellular substance, from which some Diptera were just 

 emerging in the perfect state. To give an idea of the extent of destruction from the 

 causes mentioned, I may state that out of nearly fifty cocoons only three or four con- 

 tained a healthy pupa of Saturnia carpini. — Id. 



Entomology in the Isle of Harris, Sfc. — I spent a few days at the end of last 

 September at Tarbert, in the Isle of Harris, and although the entomological results 

 of my trip are very scanty, I thought that any records from so little known a locality, 

 might be interesting. 



In Lepidoptera I found Leucania impura, a dark and worn female, Larentia 

 didymata, Cidaria testata, Peronea ferrugana, (Ecophora pseudospreteUa. In 

 Hymenoptera : Myrmica ruginodis, Bombus Smithianus, and pratorum, Pezomachus 

 Kiesenwetteri,fasciatus, and agilis. In Trichoptera : Molanna palpata, Anaholia 

 coenosa, Halesus digitatus, Limnophilus marmoratus, Plectrocnemia conspersa, and 



