42, THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
night of the fine spell we had been enjoying.—R. Tremprriey, Bos- 
combe. [Quite typical strongly marked var. arsilache were taken by 
me in August 1914 at the little lakes in the woods near Campfer, 
Engadine, at an elevation of 6000 ft. They are smaller in size than 
Mr. Sheldon’s examples from the Hohe Tatra. Mr. A. H. Jones had 
previously taken this form at the same place. See Wheeler, Butterflies 
of Switzerlaud, p. 80.—H.J.T.] 
Nyssia ZONARIA RECORDED FROM THE HEBRIDES SEVENTY YEARS AGO.— 
Mr. Turner’s interesting extract on page 233, vol. xviii., from the 
Scottish Naturalist, which records Nyssia zonaria from the Hebrides, 
seemed to me a very remarkable one, for I did not until recently know 
that it had been found in Britain elsewhere than at Wallasey. The 
other day, however, I happened to consult the Zoologist for 1845, and 
i ‘“‘T formerly made a 
communication respecting some larve which were found in the Isle of 
Skye, by my friend Mr. Cooper, of Preston (Zool., p. 686). 1 saw him 
last week and learned that a female of Nyssia zonaria had come out 
this spring from one of the chrysalides that was uninjured. I hinted 
to Mr. Doubleday what I thought they were. Now it is a question 
whether Nyssia zonaria is indigenous to the Hebrides or not; and 
those which have been found at New Brighton, Cheshire, have been 
originally imported thither amongst wool, etc., or rushes that had been 
used to pack up fish with. My friend informs me that the larve were 
in swarms upon the sandhills of Bernarah, and several other islands 
which he visited.—Jas. B. Hodgkinson, Manchester, May 21st, 1845.” 
Is there anything new under the sun, one wonders 2—W. G. SHELDON, 
Youlgreave, 8. Croydon. 
[The first sec. referred to is as follows: ‘“ A friend of mine who 
lately visited the Isle of Skye, observed a great number of the larva of 
a Geometer very similar to those of Abraxas grossulariata ; they were 
feeding on the burdock on the summit of Ben Beckley, where he shot 
a rock-dove, the crop of which was completely gorged with them. A 
few of these larve have since changed into pupe.”’ J.B. Hodgkinson, 
Zoologist, p. 686 (1844). 
In 1871, F. Buchanan White issed his List of Lepidoptera of Perth- 
shire, but he did not include N. zonaria. However, he made the fol- 
lowing note on the species, ‘“‘ Perhaps someone who has the oppor- 
tunity will try and solve this enigma by finding and rearing the larve 
in question.’”’ In fact, as the late C. G. Barrett says, Lep. Brit. Isles, 
vol. vii., p. 152, “it was discredited for fifty-five years,”’ until 1899. 
In the year 1899, Mr. Evans, in the Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., p. 239, 
published the following note on the subject. 
“Among a number of insects recently brought to me by Mr. R. 
Godfrey for identification, I was delighted to find an unset example of 
the male of this local moth (NE zonaria), which had been captured by 
Mr. Jas. Baxter, on the Island of Tiree, Inner Hebrides, in April of the 
present year. The larvee of the species are said to have been common 
in 1847, on a hill in Skye and on ‘ Bernarah,’ but apparently only one 
of those taken reached maturity. It was a ° which is wingless.”— 
W. Evans, Edinburgh. 
In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for 1900, p. 41, A. F. Griffith says, ‘ N. 
zonaria is abundant on the ‘machars’ (sandy pastures) along the 
western coasts of the Outer Hebrides, The larve occasionally have a 
