90 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
path to Braemar, between Coylum Bridge and Alltdruie, on 
June 3rd, and Hupithecia helveticaria on fences ; Hucymatoge togata 
was netted among spruce; on 10th H/pithectis lathyri and Gelechia 
solutella, the latter in plenty, variable and in fine condition ; 
on 17th, larve of Plastenis subtusa between aspen leaves, and 
Hepialus fusconebulosa, ab. gallicus ; on 28th, a single example 
of Cemiostoma susinella, flying among aspen, and Lithocolletis 
heegeriella. I wanted to spend a week or so at Blair Atholl for 
Glen Tilt, but found it so difficult to get suitable accommodation 
that I gladly accepted the offer of the one-roomed bungalow 
annexe to the Struan Inn, and was made most comfortable. I 
found, on July 2nd, a larva of Aporophyla nigra; on 4th a few 
Gelechia acuminatella; on 7th, in a lane by the side of the Tilt, 
larvee in hundreds of Epermenia cherophyllella on Heracleum; on 
14th Hlachista bedellella ; on 15th Perittia obscuripunctella flying 
in some numbers up and down a wall that seemed to be bare 
of honeysuckle ; on 19th, in Glen Tilt, Ablabia argentana and 
Pselinophorus brachydactylus. I looked for, but failed to find, the 
food-plant of the Plume. Crambus myellus was beaten out near 
the Tilt on the 21st. Coleophora discordella was taken near Struan 
Point on August 10th; Zelleria saxifrage occurred on Saxifraga 
aizoides ; on “92nd Depressaria pulcherrimella occurred; on 28th, 
to my delight, through the kindness of a young friend, a fine 
example of Crymodes exulis, var. assimilis. Willie McIntosh, of 
Kirkcaldy, who, with some of his relatives, was making ready for 
tea in the open, noticed that a moth was crawling away from a 
stone near which a fire was burning. He quickly gave it shelter 
in a match-box, when it did what is not always done in such 
cases—it settled down quietly, and reached me in faultless con- 
dition. Plutella dalella occurred September 9th on fences at 
Struan ; that handsome and scarce Longicorn, Saperda scalaris, 
and Phibalapteryx lapidata, occurred on the 24th. After this 
things got so hopelessly bad that I returned home to find 
Southend revelling in sunshine such as I had not experienced 
during my six months’ pie: in Scotland. 
7, Marine Avenue, 
Southend-on-Sea. 
SOME NOTES ON THE COLLECTION OF BRITISH 
MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN THE HOPE DEPARTMENT 
OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. 
By F. C. Wooprorpg, B.A., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 12.) 
NOCTUIDA. 
ACRONYCTINE. 
Acronycta leporina.—A long series of ab. bradyporina, Tr., from 
various localities. A very dark specimen ab. melanocephala, 
