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wort. — Wilfred W. 0. Beveridge ; Rockville, North Queens- 

 ferry, Fifeshire, September 5, 1881. 



[In Dr. Buchanan White's ' Lepidoptera of Scotland,' Agrotis 

 ohelisca is stated to be " very local," and is recorded certainly 

 from the "Forth" district, doubtfully from " Solway," and 

 probably from several other of his divisions (Scot. Nat. ii. 281). 

 In the same journal Sir Thomas Moncreiife recorded this species 

 as abundant on Moncreiffe Hill, Perth, and adds, " I think it has 

 increased considerabl}'^ in the last two years" (Scot. Nat. iv. 108; 

 1877). In Prof. Trail's 'Lepidoptera of the Dee,' we find 

 "^. ohelisca— once at Old Aberdeen" (Trans. Nat. Hist. See. 

 Aberdeen, 1878, p. 36). ~E. A. F.] 



Heliothis arinugeka in Gloucestershire. — I had the satis- 

 faction of capturing another, though rather weather-beaten, 

 specimen of this Noctua, when at Wotton-under-Edge, on the 

 2nd of September. I was beating my way through some rough 

 boggy ground on the top of the hills, searching principally for 

 Hymenoptera, about mid-day, when a pale-coloured moth started 

 up in front of me, which I took to be a Lithosia. It flew very 

 softly some twenty yards on, and, noting whereabouts, I went on 

 with what I was doing, intending to have another look at it. On 

 my getting nearer I observed it settled on a bent with wings 

 partially expanded and head downwards towards the ground, and 

 seeing it was not what I expected I pushed through towards it, 

 but it was off before I could get near enough to net it. It flew 

 now only a very short distance, more in the open, and settled 

 itself exactly in the same position again ; I soon had it in my net, 

 and found out what it was. Is it singular for a Noctua to settle 

 head downwards ? It was this very circumstance that attracted 

 my attention to it. I might add, although the sun was bright 

 there was a stiffish breeze blowing. Was this the reason ; or do 

 Nocture sometimes repose thus ? — V. R. Periqns ; 20, Gloucester 

 Street, S.W., September 16, 1881. 



ScoPARiA coNSPicuALis, Hodgk., near York. — Mr. Prest, of 

 York, lately sent up to me for identification two specimens of a 

 Scoparia, which prove to be Mr. Hodgkinson'"s new species, 

 S. consjncualis. They were captured this season near York. — 

 John T. Carrington; Royal Aquarium, S.W., September, 1881. 



ToRTRiCES in Epping Forest. — During the last week in 



