206 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I find this species exceedingly local in its habitat. — John T. 

 Carrington ; Poole Road, Egremont, Birkenhead, August 1, 

 1874. 



Pachnohia alpina in Rannoch. — I had the pleasure of cap- 

 turing a specimen of this fine and rare species this summer in 

 Perthshire: it was taken in theBreadalbanedivision (as divided 

 by Dr. White in his ' Fauna Perthensis'), close to the summit 

 of a mountain of upwards of three thousand 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 festiva. The nights spent 

 at this altitude were alternate ones ; the other evenings were 

 occupied by sugaring in the valley where I stayed : these 

 latter sugarings produced many moths, so that the paucity of 

 insects at sugar on the mountains could not be the result of 

 the bad season we have had in Scotland this year. Consider- 

 ing 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, 

 namely, the two named in the 'Manual,' a third taken b}' 

 Mr. Eedle, on Schiehallion, in 1870, and one bred from a 

 pupa found while hunting for Coleoptera, in Braemar, by 

 Mr. AUin : these may be called accidental captures; so I 

 feel the more pleasure in having gone for, and obtained, the 

 species. — Id. 



Pachnohia alpina in Rannoch. — I have again had the 

 pleasure of taking this rare species in Scotland, on the same 

 mountain that I took one in 1870. In the same week I had 

 the misfortune to miss another in Glen Sassenach, on a 

 mountain called Squapen. I believe this species occurs on 

 all the high mountains in Scotland if they could only be well 

 collected over; but the great difficulty is wind and rain, that 

 prevent you doing much on the tops of the higher mountains. 

 — T. Eedle ; 40, Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, N.E. 



Erastria vennstula, at Horsham, Sussex. — On June 2nd I 

 took eight of the above insect in St. Leonard's forest, at a 

 part called "Roost Hole," about three miles from the town. 

 I might easily have caught a hundred settled on the heath : 



