170 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



visited by hosts of moths, aiicl^.ivhat is very reinarl<able, cer- 

 tain species occurred there and nowhere else; for instance, I 

 only look five specimens of Noctna glareosa, and every one 

 was taken from this small wounded birch, which also yielded 

 in one night six specimens of Epunda nigra. Another year 

 I intend collecting a pint or two of the sap in the early 

 spring, to mix with my sugar as an improvement. The larvas 

 of Bombyx Quercus were very abundant on heather ; one 

 specimen only, out of some twenty or more, yielded the per- 

 fect insect on the SOth of July ; the others are all now in 

 the pupa stage. One pupa of PcEcilocampa Populi was taken 

 at root of poplar. Saturnia Carpini was very common, but 

 smaller and less richly coloured than Yorkshire specimens. 

 Chesias spartiata was very abundant. 



The subjoined list of Noctuse will show that this locality 

 is a promising one. Being, however, my first season's col- 

 lecting, after an interval of some twenty-five years, I was 

 imperfectly read up in the modern system of collecting larvae 

 and pu[)ae; otherwise the list of species might have been 

 considerably augmented. A notable fact was the remarkable 

 earliness of most of the insects, which, with few exceptions, 

 were fully four or five weeks in advance of their usual time 

 of apj)earauce, owing, no doubt, to the hotness of the season. 

 The date is that on which the first specimen was ob- 

 served. 



Thyatira batis. 20th June. Scarce. Two specimens at 

 raspberry-blooms. 



Cymalophora duplaris. 27th June. Frequent at sugar. 



C. or. 20th June. Several at sugar. 



C. flavicoruis. 30lh March. At rest. Many larvae after- 

 wards, on birch. 



Acronycta tridens ? 27th June. At sugar. I suspect I 

 am right in referring this to tridens, being darker than Psi. 



A. Psi. 4th July. Not uncommon at sugar. At rest on 

 birch trees. 



A. le])orina. 25th May. At rest in Altyre Forest. After- 

 wards several larvae were taken from birch. 



A. Ligustri. Bred from pupa3 found on ash trees. 



A. Rumicis. 25th May. Two at rest. 



A. Salicis. 17lh June. Rare at sugar. 



