68 { August, 
curred. The following Scoparie were taken: ambigualis, cembre, pyralella, mer- 
curella, and crategella. Hight Crambi were seen, the best being inquinatellus and 
Warringtonellus, and at light two specimens (¢ and 2) of Chilo mucronellus 
astonished me one night; where they came from I cannot imagine, as the 
window faced the sea, and there were no reeds within sight. It is perhaps 
worth noticing that about this time (July 23), for two or three nights, insects came | 
in swarms toalamp placed at an open window. Among the visitors were two 
species of Bombyces, eleven Noctue, nineteen .Geometre (including Chesias obli- 
quaria and Emmelesia unifasciata), thirteen Pyralides and Crambites (several of 
which were such day-flying species as Herbula cespitalis, Pyrausta purpuralis, and 
Phycis subornatella), and many Tortrices and Tineina. In the flower seeds of several 
species of Composite, the larvee of Hommosoma saxicola werecommon. These larvze, 
when full-fed, spin a cocoon, but do not become pupe till some time in spring, con- 
sequently there seems to be a considerable difficulty in bringing them to the per- 
fect state, unless they are left damp. Most of mine, having been left dry here, 
died, but I have reared one specimen by placing the cocoon among the damp moss 
in a forcing apparatus (dla Dr. Knaggs, vide “ The Lepidopterist’s Guide”), One 
larva at least, after being placed among the moss, came out of its cocoon and made ~ 
afresh one. A few specimens of Phycis subornatella and Rhodophea advenella oc- 
curred; the latter and Pempelia palwmbella have not, I think, been previously re- 
corded as found in Scotland. 
I found a good many Tortrices, but none of any great rarity. Among the 
best were Sericoris littoralis, bred from larvee found on Armeria, Sciaphila Penziana 
and octomaculana, HEupecilia maculosana, and the dubious heath-frequenting 
ciliella.—F. BucHanan Wuite8, Braemar, July, 1871. 
Capture of a Zygena new to the British lists.— To-day I had the pleasure, shared 
by Mr. J. W. H. Traill, of taking several examples of Zygena exulans, Hchw., a 
species hitherto unrecorded as British. They where found at an altitude of from 
2400 to 2600 feet, on a hill in Braemar. JZ. ewulans does not greatly resemble any 
of the other British species of the genus. The antenne are clavate, and obtuse at 
the apex ; the wings, which are sparingly scaled, are of a dull, dark green, with 
five dull carmine spots, of which the first is long and narrow and overlaps the basal 
half of the third ; the second and third spots are small; and the fourth and fifth 
large. The hind-wings are dull red, with a dull green border, which is broader and 
darker in the male. The fringes are ochreous, and the abdomen black and shaggy. 
In the typical exulans, which occurs on the higher Alps and Pyrenees, the nervures 
are sprinkled with ochreous, but in the var. vanadis, Dalm., which is the Scandina- 
vian form, the wings are more sparingly scaled, and the ochreous is absent. Our 
specimens appear to be intermediate between these two forms, as, though the male 
has no ochreous, the female has the nervures and collar distinctly marked with this 
colour. Z. ewulans is about the size of Minos.—Ib., July 17th, 1871. 
Description of the larva of Tapinostola elymi.—My best thanks are due to Mr. 
James Batty, of Sheffield, who took a long journey during inclement weather, that 
he might search for the larva of this species, comparatively new to our lists; and 
