66 {August, 
A note affecting the question of Hybridism.—At the end of May last I captured — 
at Deal a male of Ceuthorhynchideus troglodytes, in copuld with a female of Celiodes 
didymus,—-and effectually so, as the specimens have not become disunited in death. 
Tf the female had happened to be a Ceuthorhynchus some light might have been 
thereby thrown on the question raised concerning Ceuthorhynchus marginatus and 
C. distinctus (Bris.), by Mr. Rye in this Magazine.—H. A. WATERHOUSE, Ripon. 
Notes upon the Lepidoptera of the South-west of Scotland.—To thoroughly 
change the scene of my explorations, instead of going north I went south in 1870, 
and took up my residence on the shores of the Solway Firth, in Cobend, Kirkeud- 
brightshire. This locality was just the opposite of my expectations, for instead 
of being a rich, wooded country, it is almost destitute of trees, and rocky in the ex- 
treme. Instead of hedges the fields are divided by walls of loose stones, and in | 
every direction large masses of granite, which forms the chief geological formation | 
of the district, crop out ; while along the sea coast, instead of the undulating sand | 
hills, rich in Agrotes and Leucanie, which I had pictured to myself, are great pre- 
cipices, on whose ledges samphire and other maritime plants abound. However, 
it did not prove an unproductive entomological locality ; and when the whole of | 
the country, which is not all of the same nature, comes to be explored, I have no | 
doubt that Kirkcudbrightshire will be found to be as rich a district as any in Scot- 
land. And I am glad to say that there is every chance of its being explored, as it | 
possesses a resident entomologist in the person of my friend Mr. Douglas Robinson, 
of Almorness, with whom I had many days’ pleasant collecting. 
The butterflies seen by me here are 21 in number, and do not require especial | 
notice, except in the case of Cenonympha Tiphon, Rott. (Davus, F.), which occurred 
on Cloak moss. On going on to the moss I noticed Rhynchospora alba, the food-plant of | 
the English form of Tiphon, and thought that it would be extremely interesting to _ 
find that butterfly here. Soon afterwards Tiphon turned up, aud proved to be the 
English form Philowenus, Esp. (Rothliebi, Stgr.). I have not noticed the Rhynchos- 
pora in localities where the Scotch form Laidion, Bkh., abounds, and it is very likely | . 
that its food-plant is different, though the Rhynchospora is not an uncommon plant | 
throughout Britain. 
Among the Nocturni the following are worth mentioning: Sesia philanthiformis | 
all along the coast, but, though the larvee and pups were not rare, I did not see f 
a single imago at liberty, and only succeeded in breeding a few. This species ap- 
pears to live for two years in the larva state, as half-grown larvae were common at the 
time that the imagos were emerging, and could be found at any time up till the 
end of September, when I left. Cherocampa galii: a very young larva of this | 
species (which at the time I thought was a larva of stellatarwm) found its way | 
very mysteriously into my umbrella when I was beating broom for caterpillars of 
Chesias. Its end wasas mysterious, for, having been taken to Oxford by Mr. Douglas 
Robinson, it one day took its departure, probably by the window, and was never 
seen again! 
Hepialus velleda was excessively abundant, and several specimens of the aber-}) 
ration gallicus occurred. Liparis auriflua: a single g was found; this species 
was not before in the Scottish list. 
Among the Geometre, Owrapteryx sambucata was conspicuous, but not abun- 
