114 (October, 
On the heather, I found one larva of Orgyia antigua, and several larvee of 
Bombyx rubi and B. callune. 
Of Geometre, I caught 21 species ; Orocallis elinguaria, four or five at rest on 
heather, on a moor near the village ; Fidonia pinetaria, several, on the same moor, 
but rubbed (Aberdeenshire will thus have to be added to the previously recorded 
localities for these two species) ; Larentia didymata and L. cesiata, both in count- 
less swarms; L. pectinitaria, not common; Eupithecia sobrinata, very abundant 
among juniper; Thera variata, not uncommon; Hypsipetes elutata, rare, and in bad 
state; Melanthia rubiginata, abundant in the evening, about alder trees ; Melanippe 
fluctuata and Coremia munitata, rare. j 
The genus Cidaria was represented by 7 species—C. miata, once, apparently 
newly emerged; C. russata, all the varieties abundant; C. prunata and C. testata, 
abundant; C. populata, abundant, and very variable; C. fulvata and C. pyraliata, 
both scarce; Hubolia mensuaria, not uncommon; FL. palumbaria, very common on 
all the moors; Carsia imbutata, very local, but not very scarce. 
Of Noctue I only caught 6 species, owing to my not collecting at night ; 
Chareas graminis, abundant; Teniocampa gothica, one larva; Hadena pisi, one 
larva on a species of Juncus (I never happened to find the larvee of this species on 
Pteris, though I have frequently found them on Scabious, Menyanthes, &c., and, in 
confinement, I find they will eat hawthorn readily) ; Plusia gamma, once; P. interro- 
gationis, abundant on all the moors, but very difficult to net, owing to its rapid 
flight; Stilbia anomala, once (this species is common in various localities on 
Dee-side). 
Though too late for Psodos trepidaria, I have been informed that it is very 
abundant in the glens about Braemar, in July; and I have seen a specimen of 
Geometra papilionaria caught in that neighbourhood.—JameEs TraibL, Old Aber- 
deen, August, 1870. 
[In “The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar,” by the late Dr. W. 
Macgillivray, printed for private circulation in 1855, under royal auspices, and 
edited by Dr. Edwin Lankester, is contained,— together with an extensive list of 
Coleoptera drawn up by Mr. Andrew Murray, but which contains many scotch 
species not properly to be attributed to the district in question,—a confessedly im- 
perfect list of species of the other orders of insects then observed in that district, 
principally extracted from Dr. Macgillivary’s M.S.S. The Lepidoptera are therein 
represented by fifty-four species, including thirteen of the forty-two above 
mentioned. So much care has been taken in other respects in “ getting up” this 
posthumous edition de luxe (the names of Lyell, Hooker, Balfour, Babington, Ward, 
Jardine, Yarrell, Forbes, Niccl and Keith Johnston, testifying to its exhaustiveness 
and accuracy in the several branches of Natural History, for which these gentlemen 
are authorities), that it is to be regretted that the Entomological portion is so 
imperfect. 
Mr. B. Jazdowski (The Entomologists’ Weekly Intelligencer, Vol. 2, 1857, p. 
171) has recorded Erebia Medea (Blandina), Cenonympha Davus and Argynnis 
Aglaia from Braemar.—EDs. | 
Description of the transformations of Argynnis Selene.—At length—after repeated 
failures—I have succeeded in rearing this species from the egg to the pupa, and 
