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Is Scopuln decrepUalis Dotihle-hrooded ? — In the last 

 week of May this year I was in the Trosachs, in Scotland, 

 beating the bushes, amongst which the whorlleberiy (Vac- 

 ciniuni vitis-idaea) grows in profusion : I then started three 

 fine specimens of Scopida decie|jilalis. I am not aware of its 

 occurrence there before; bnt 1 am anxious to know from 

 some of your northern readers if this moth is usually taken in 

 May, as well as at its recorded time of capture, as given in 

 books upon Lepidoplera, viz. July and August. 1 may add 

 that the moth only occin'ied in a very limited area in the 

 middle of this beautihil ravine. 1 had expected to have taken 

 many good things, l>ut the weather was, so cold and wet that 

 there were scarcely any insects about. — \^Rei\\ Windsor 

 Hambrough ; 40, Ahiiine Parade, Worthing, J idi/ 20, 1876. 



Variety of Geometra papilioiKtria. — Before this month I 

 never had the pleasure of taking this insect; but since the 

 13ih [ have caught five specimens, all at light. One of these, 

 which I caught on the 18th, is straw-colour, and not green, 

 with the apex of the fore wing rather rounder than usual ; 

 the pale transverse lines are very faint, and the hind wings 

 hardly so deeply dentate as usual. Is this a common variety 

 or not? — H. H. Corbet t ; Ravenoak, Cheadlehu/i/ie, Stock- 

 port, July 23, 1876. 



Enpilhecia satyrata var. callnnaria. — In August and Sep- 

 tember, 1875, 1 collected a number of larvae of E. satyrata 

 var. callunaria, by sweeping the flowers of Calluna vulgaris 

 on the Ross-shire Moors, near Alness. Very lew moths 

 appeared this spring; one couple, however, paired, and I 

 obtained fertile eggs, from which 1 reared a small brood of 

 larva^, which fed up on the flowers of Achilla^a n)yriophylla, 

 A. macrophylla, and Ptarmica mongolica. They were very 

 much larger and brighter, and more variable in colour, than 

 their Ross-shire progenitors, and differed in no appreciable 

 way from the larvge of the typical E. satyrata, which 1 take 

 in this neighbourhood. Mr. Buckler, to whom 1 sent speci- 

 niens, says they are true, genuine, unmistakable E. sai\raia. 

 1 take it, therefore, that it is now finally proved that 

 K. calliMiaria is nothing t)ut a northern variety of E. satyrata. 

 [Rev.] H. Harpur Crewe. 



Rearing the Larva of Bontbyx Rubi. — There has always 

 been a ditficulty in rearing these caterpillars, as they usually 



