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paragraph appeared on the wrapper of" the double number of 

 the 'Entomologist/ 94 and 95, during the past year. 



" Dr. Buchanan White, accompanied by Mr. Traill, has 

 captured Zyga3ua exulans at an elevation of 2500 feel, in 

 Braemar. He has sent specimens to Mr. Doubleday, "ho 

 finds them to be the variety Vanadis, thus quoted at p. 46 of 

 the recent edition of Dr. Staudinger's Catalogue : ' a. v. 

 Vanadis, Dalm. Zyg. Suec. '21'^, 6 (parcissime squamata 

 albo non mixta), Lap.; Scand. inonty In the S7th number 

 of the 'Entomologist's Magazine' the following particulars 

 appeared from the pen of the accomplished naturalist whose 

 good fortune it was to make this interesting discovery: — 



"To-day 1 had the pleasure, shared by Mr. W. H. Traill, 

 of taking several examples of Zygaena exulans, HcJnv., a 

 species hitherto unrecorded as British. They were found at 

 an altitude of from 2400 to 2600 feet, on a hill in Braemar. 

 Z. exulans does not greatly resemble any of the other 

 British species of the genus. The antenna3 are clavate, and 

 obtuse at the apex ; the wings, which are sparingly scaled, 

 are of a dull dark green, with five dull carmine spots, of 

 which the first is long and narrow, and overlaps the basal 

 half of the third ; the second and third spots are small, and 

 the fourth and fifth large; the hind wings are dull red, with 

 a dull green border, which is broader and darker in the 

 male; the fringes are ochreous; and the abdomen black and 

 shaggy. In the typical Exulans, which occurs on the higher Alps 

 and Pyrenees, the nervures are sprinkled with ochreous; but 

 in var. Vanadis, Dalm., which is the Scandinavian form, the 

 wings are more sparingly scaled, and the ochreous is absent. 

 Our specimens appear to be intermediate between these, two 

 forms, as, though the male has no ochreous, the female has 

 the nervures and collar distinctly marked with this colour. 

 Z. exulans is about the size of Minos." (E. M. M. p. 68.) 



The following additional information from the pen of the 

 same entomologist is extracted from the ' Entomologist's 

 Annual' for the present year, at p. 113: — 



" The locality for Exulans, in Braemar, is an ancient shore 

 of the glacial sea ; and the same agencies that deposited 

 there, various boulders and arctic plants, probably, at the 

 same time, brought the Zygaena. The insect is extremely 

 local in its habits, for not a specimen was to be found, 



