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October 7th ; also late. Epunda nigra, October 10th, at sugar and at rest ; E. 

 viminalis, bred from larvae on sallow, and also beaten out of bushes ; Miselia oxya- 

 canthce, Agriopis aprilina, Phlogophora meticulosa, at sugar ; Hadena protea, ditto, 

 and bred ; H. dentina and H. pisi ; Cloantlia soUdaginis, September, beaten out of 

 !* birch. Calocampa vetusta and exoleta, October ; the former the commonest at 

 Rannoch. At Perth exoleta is much the commoner. Anarta melanopa, June 24th ; 

 A. cordigera, June 20th ; both near Kinloch -Rannoch. Ahrostola urticce, June 

 30th ; Plusia interrogationis, July ; not rare among the heather, but not very easy 

 to be taken. Amphipyra tragopogonis ; Phytometra cenea, June 28th ; not rare. 

 Herbula cespitalis, Botys fuscalis, Pionea forficalis, July 7th ; Scapula alpinalis, 

 August ; on all the high mountains of Perthshire probably. Stenopteryx hylridalis, 

 September ; the first taken in Perthshire that I know of. Scoparia p^jralalis, 

 atomaUs, and others not yet determined. Cramhus ericellus, August ; in various 

 places in the district. C. pascuellus, C. m.argaritcllus, August ; C. tristellus, Melia 

 sociella, July 28th ; Tortrix vihurnana, common ; Lithogramma cineraria, August 5th, 

 at Dall ; Pcedisca solandriana, very common and variable ; Oxygrapha scotana, 

 October ; Pamplusia monticolana, August 13th, near Loch Ericht ; Teras cauda/tia, 

 October ; (Ecophora similella, July ; Kinloch and Camachgouran. Depressaria 

 suhpropinquella, &o., &c. — F. Buchanan White, M.D., Perth, 1867. 



Notes on the earlier stages oj Dasypolia Tem2yli. — This larva, discovered by Mr. 

 W. R. Jeffrey, has, I am aware, been described by Mr. Newman, in Zoologist, 8788 ; 

 yet, as it scarcely seems to be reckoned common at jDi-esent, a few notes, which I 

 have put together from the observations of myself and my friends, may not be 

 uninteresting. 



In the latter part of the year 1865, Mr. H. Doubleday obtained living impreg- 

 nated ? moths from Mr. Varley, of Huddersfield, and succeeded in keeping them 

 alive through the winter; one even survived a journey to M. Guenee, and, as well 

 as the two retained by Mr. Doubleday, deposited eggs about March 20th, 1866, 

 which he distributed to his friends, Mr. Hellins and myself amongst them. They 

 were laid on the under-sides of some leaves of Heracleum sphondn/Uum (then grown 

 out to a foot in length), which were put in a box to induce them to commence 

 laying. Perhaps in a state of nature, when the Heraclexim leaves are backward, 

 the females may deposit on the dry stems of last year's plants. The egg is not so 

 flat as the usual Noctua shape, but stands up rather higher, ribbed, at first yellowish 

 in colour, afterwards turning flesh colour, with a pinkish-brown spot on the top, 

 and a ring rather above the middle ; finally turning blackish a day or two before 

 the hatching of the larva. The larvse appeared about April 20th ; at first they 

 were of a dingy oUve colour, with black heads, rather Ion gish -looking in shape. 



Mr. Jeffrey having made the entomological world acquainted with the food, 

 we had all provided some Heracleum plants ready at hand in our gardens, and put 

 out on them the larvse immediately upon their appearance ; nor had we to wait 

 long in suspense as to their powers of eating. Some began by attacking the leaf 

 itself and afterwards the stem ; others made at once for the stem, and commenced 

 eating their way into the interior and drinking the sap which flowed into their 

 little tunnels : from this point their habits as internal feeders made it difficult to 

 watch their growth, but the following observations were made. 



