NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 85 
Crymodes exulis is very similar to H. adusta. I speak more of 
the general effect than details, and most of the outline, which in 
Newman’s H. assimilis is of the proportions of Cerigo cytherea ; next 
to which genus in some lists is classified, however, not H. assimilis 
of Newman, but C. exulis. I have but one specimen of each; but 
the one marked Exulis is of the shape of Newman’s Assimilis, and 
I have it placed next to Cerigo cytherea, while the one I believe 
to be Assimilis is similar to Adusta; it is, however, a female, and 
lacks the bright red line conspicuous in the male, and which I 
have heard fades after a time, which also may account for 
Newman mentioning no such distinguishing a stigma, whether in 
his description of C. exulis or of H. assimilis. In Scotland, last 
June, a very energetic and obliging collector pointed out to me 
the very tree on which two years ago he’ took a male Assimilis 
with the bright red line, at sugar: he said ‘‘ you will probably 
take Hxulis before you leave.’ Accordingly on July 9th, within 
fifty yards of the tree pointed out to me, at my sugar was 
captured a very beautiful moth, at first supposed to be H. adusta, 
apparently but just emerged; but at that time Adusta was quite 
over-worn. On careful daylight examination we came to the 
conclusion that it was a female Assimilis; and this has been 
decidedly pronounced to be the case by your well-known corre- 
spondent Mr. Hodgkinson, of Preston. As I said, I describe 
only its general appearance: and it appears to me to be a little 
smaller, narrower in the wings, and of a far richer and more 
velvety appearance than any Adusta; it is also darker than even 
the dark Adusta taken near Kinloch, Rannoch, which seem to me 
to be, as a rule, darker than those taken at Croiscrag, only eight 
miles off, near the other end of the lake. At sugar it sat with its 
head pointing up the tree, and its wings quite closed, which I 
believe not to be habits with ddusta. It was one out of seven 
insects taken at sugar during thirteen nights, the other six being 
Triphena pronuba, Hadena adusta, Rusina tenebrosa, Noctua 
plecta, N. conflua, and Hadena pisi. On one occasion five 
collectors were out on the same night and did not see a moth. 
Acronycta myrice was altogether absent there in 1878. This 
extraordinary record in the annals of sugaring I have been much 
surprised to find has been passed over with scarce notice in the 
magazines. I left Perthshire, July 15th, and I heard that there 
was no improvement in this matter during the season of Aplecta 
