206 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
I find this species exceedingly local in its habitat.—John T. 
Carrington ; Poole Road, Egremont, Birkenhead, August 1, 
1874. ; 
Pachnobia alpina in Rannoch.—I had the pleasure of cap- 
turing a specimen of this fine and rare species this summer in 
Perthshire: it was taken in the Breadalbane division (as divided 
by Dr. White in his ‘ Fauna Perthensis’), close to the summit 
of a mountain of upwards of three thousand feet in height. 
It may interest some of your readers to know that this was 
the only result of fourteen whole nights and several days 
spent at that height: I sugared each night, but it produced 
nothing but an occasional Noctua festiva. The nights spent 
at this altitude were alternate ones; the other evenings were 
occupied by sugaring in the valley where I stayed: these 
latter sugarings produced many moths, so that the paucity of 
insects at sugar on the mountains could not be the result of 
the bad season we have had in Scotland this year. Consider- 
ing the result, and the extreme discomfort of mountain-tops 
at night, for I was many times enveloped in thick clouds for 
hours together, I do not think it worth while to work again 
for this cloud-loving species. I believe there are only four 
previous records of this species being taken in Great Britain,” 
namely, the two named in the ‘ Manual,’ a third taken by 
Mr. Eedle, on Schiehallion, in 1870, and one bred from a 
pupa found while hunting for Coleoptera, in Braemar, by 
Mr. Allin: these may be called accidental captures; so I 
feel the more pleasure in having gone for, and obtained, the 
species.—Jd. 
Pachnobia alpina in Rannoch.—I have again had the 
pleasure of taking this rare species in Scotland, on the same 
mountain that I took one in 1870. In the same week I had 
the misfortune to miss another in Glen Sassenach, on a 
mountain called Squapen. I believe this species occurs on 
all the high mountains in Scotland if they could only be well 
collected over; but the great difficulty is wind and rain, that 
prevent you doing much on the tops of the higher mountains. 
—T. Eedle; 40, Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, N.E. 
Erastria venustula at Horsham, Sussex.—On June 2nd I 
took eight of the above insect in St. Leonard’s forest, at a 
part called “ Roost Hole,” about three miles from the town. 
I might easily have caught a hundred settled on the heath: 
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