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and a single example of bijiunctidacUjliis was taken. — A. Adik Dalglish ; 

 •21, Princes Street, PoUokshields, Glasgow. 



Collecting in West Pioss-shire. — The following is a list of Lepi- 

 doptera which I took during a ten days' stay at Strathcarron. I send it 

 because, so far, there do not appear to have been any records of collecting 

 in that part of Scotland. The country is rough moorland and mountainous, 

 and there is next to no cultivation in the Carron Valley. There were the 

 usual birch-woods upon the hillsides, and a sprinkling of ancient pine-trees 

 in some sheltered places up among the hills : — Fieris hrassicm, P. najd, 

 Argynnis selene, A. aglaia, Vanessa urticm (seen up to 27 UO ft.), Erebia 

 athiops (500 ft.), Epinephele ianira (much richer brown than in the South 

 of England, and with a slight vinous tint), Ccenonymjiha typhon, C, pam- 

 philus, Thecla ruhi,-'- Lyccena icanis, Trochilium crabronlforniis (one taken 

 while buzzing about a sallow bush at the sea level), Zygmia [trifolii?) (an 

 empty cocoon), Bombyx callunm (larvEe), Saturnia carpini (larvae), Neineo- 

 2)hila riissuhi, Orgyia antiqua (empty cocoon and eggs), Thyatira batis, 

 Asphalia Jiavicornis (larvae), Acronycta rwnicis, Leucania iinpura, L. 

 pallens, Xylophasia rurea and var. coiiibusta, X. Uthoxylea, X. monoylypha 

 (mostly darkish, and some nearly black), Apamca gemina, A. didyma, 

 Miana arcuosa, Caradrina quadripunctata, Agrotis strigula, Noctua augur, 

 N. plecta, N. c-nigrum, N. festiva, Triphana comes, T. pronuba, Mania 

 typica, Ta^niocampa gotldca (larvae), T. gracilis (larvae), Aplecta tincta, 

 Hadena adusta, Ccdocampa vetusta or C. exoleta {\a.rva), CucuUlaumbratica, 

 Habrostola tripartita, Anarta myrtilli, Metrocampa maryaritaria, Ellopia 

 prosapiaria, Biston liirtaria (larvae), Boarniia repandata, Dasydia obfuscuta, 

 Fsodos coracina,-'' Acidaliu bisetata, A. funiata, Cabera exantheinaria, 

 Larentia casiata. L. Jiavicinctata, L. viridata, Emmelesia alchemillata, E. 

 (dbidata, E. viinorata [blandiata), Eupithecia pidcheUuta (larvae), E. 

 miniitata '? , Hypsipetes sordiduta (the moorland form and very variable and 

 handsome), Melanthia ocellata, Melanippe hastata (larvae), M. sociata, M. 

 montanata, Camptoyramma hilineata (some nice dusky vars. and brownish 

 vars., rather like the Shetland examples), Cidaria miata (larvae), C. trun- 

 cata, O. p)opulata, Anaitis playiata, Crambus maryuritellus. Species marked 

 with an asterisk were noticed by Mr. L. Hinxmaii earlier in the year. I 

 have purposely not added any remarks about the numbers of each insect, 

 because I think, after so short an experience, such remarks might be more 

 misleading than instructive. — W. M. Christy ; Watergate, Emsworth, 

 Hants, Nov., 1894. 



KnuAT A.— Aiite, p. 301, line 7, for " right " read " left"; p. 321, line 13, 

 for " Toxford " read " Yoxford "; p. 323, for " Canford Hill Estate " read 

 "Canford Cliffs Estate." 



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Entomological Society of London. — October ITth, 1894. Henry 

 John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Dr. H. 

 G. Breyer, of Prtetoria, Transvaal, South Africa, was elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. Mr. G. C. Champion read a letter, dated 15th August 

 last, from Mr. J. Y. Johnson, of Funchal, Madeira, on the subject of 

 a recent visitation of locusts to the Island, and exhibited specimens. 



