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specimen. And von Heinemann, in his " Sclimetterlinge Deutschlands und der 

 Schweiz," mentions the species not as having occurred, but as likely to occur in the 

 North-eastern districts of Germany. Professor Zeller was, at one time, much 

 exercised in his spirit as to whether this might not prove to be the veritable farinalis 

 of Linne, but I believe he settled down ultimately in the old established faith, and 

 our nomenclature of the two species has thus not been rudely disturbed. — H. T. S.] 



Notes on Lepidoptera taken in Roxburghshire in 1880. — I have made a few 

 notes of some species of moths which I have taken during last season in this district 

 of Koxburghshire, and which may be of some interest, as a few of them, I think, 

 are not generally understood to occur so far north. Any of the species noted of 

 which I had any doubt as to identity, have been confirmed by Mr. C. Or. Barrett, 

 and so may be relied upon. 



Of the Sphingidce, I obtained one specimen only of Acherontia Atropos, found 

 at rest in June. Of Sesiidce, I took two fine specimens of Sesia bembeciformis, which 

 emerged from some old sallow bushes, which had been cut in March and laid up for 

 firewood, the moths emerging in the beginning of July. Of the Hepialidce, H. 

 sylvinus and velleda are both very common ; the former swarms on a steep hill-side 

 with patches of bracken and open places, in July, and higher up the hill, where the 

 ground in places is a little marshy, velleda may be seen starting about at dusk very 

 commonly. Of Chelonidce, I found C. plantaginis at one particular locality very 

 plentiful ; the moths were flying over patches of bare heather and marshy ground 

 or moorland, near to an extensive wood of Scotch and spruce fir. When I first 

 discovered them I took over a dozen specimens, all of them J , and I did not succeed 

 in taking a ? specimen ; the moths seemed to fly best about 4 p.m. I found two 

 cocoons of Arctiafuliginosa spun up on heath in May, and both produced fine 

 specimens in June. Of Geometrce, I took several J specimens of Hybemia auran- 

 tiaria in autumn. Cheimatobia boreata is common, and I have usually found it 

 settled on hawthorn twigs, more commonly when bordering plantations of firs. 

 Oporabia filigrammaria was also very common last autumn, and showing considerable 

 variety in the specimens, both as to size and shades of colouring ; I saw them fre- 

 quently on the sugared trees, and flying at dusk, and often started them during the 

 daytime when passing among the trees in small plantations, principally of Scotch 

 fir. I got one specimen of autumnaria at dusk, when sugaring trees on a rather 

 high moorland locality ; it differs from filigrammaria by all the wings being more 

 elongate in form, and there is a distinct discoidal spot on hind-wings, it also occurred 

 about a month earlier. I found Larentia salicata moderately common, sitting on 

 trunks of Scotch fir in an extensive plantation of old trees ; here, also, ccesiata was 

 very abundant, and Cidaria populata pretty common. I took a few specimens 

 'of Eupithecia indigata mostly along the borders of fir woods, and pygmaeata flying 

 during the day. Melanippe tristata is common in one locality in what may be 

 termed hilly heath-ground ; I found it in the glades of a rather extensive fir planta- 

 tion running along a moorland ridge, flying among the flowers in the sunshine and 

 again at dusk. Anticlea derivata occurs sparingly ; I took one specimen at re6t on 

 J an elm trunk, and two more near a hedge of beech at dusk. Cidaria psittacata and 

 miaia are both tolerably common in autumn, and the latter after hibernation ; suffu- 

 • tnata occurs plentifully in the fir woods, but the var. piceata is scarce. Chesias 



