January, 1872) 169 
DESCRIPTION OF A BRITISH SPECIES OF SCOPARIA NEW TO SCIENCE. 
BY F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D. 
ScOPARIA SCOTICA, n. sp. 
Alis anticis pallide cinereis, sub-triquetris, apicibus sub-acutis, 
marginibus apicalibus obliquis ; strigis obscurioribus, primis interne, 
secundis externe, albido-marginatis ; strigis primis sub-rectis, secundis 
angulatis et denticulatis ; stigmatibus obscurioribus, orbiculari et clavi- 
Sormi strigam primam attingentibus, reniformi literam X simulante, fusco 
vel luteo-fusco repleto; marginibus apicalibus leviter punctatis ; ciliis 
albidis lined cinered dissectis. Alis posterioribus exalbidis, sub-hyalinis, 
ad limbum sub-fuscis ; ciliis ut in alis anterioribus. 
Exp. alar. maris, 10'""—11" 
Habitat: Perthshire. 
Closely allied to Scoparia cembre, from which it differs in the front 
wings being less oblong and more triangular and dilated before the 
hind margin, as well as by the breadth across the hind margin being 
greater in proportion to the length of the wing. 
The apex is more acute than in that species, and the hind margin 
is oblique. The colour of the front wings is grey, not brownish, and 
the lines and stigmata are more distinctly marked than is usually the 
case in S. cembre. The lines are slender and blackish, margined, the 
first towards the base, the second towards the hind margin, with whitish. 
The open orbicular, and the dash-like claviform stigmata, are attached 
to the first line, and the reniform stigma is >%-shaped, and filled in with 
fuscous or yellowish-fuscous. The second line is finely serrated and 
bi-arcuate, the first arch close to the costa, and about one-fifth the size 
of the second arch, which occupies the rest of the line. The apical area 
is rather paler than the rest of the wings, and the hind margin has a 
series of grey spots. The cilia are whitish, intersected by a grey line 
parallel to the hind margin. The hind-wings are silky-white, clouded 
with pale grey along the hind margin; the cilia as in the front wing. 
I have seen several specimens, taken in the vicinity of Perth by 
Messrs. T. Marshall and W. Herd. 
Dr. Knaggs, to whom I submitted a specimen, kindly informs me 
that, in his opinion, this Scoparia is “certainly new.” 
Perth: December, 1871. 
NOTES ON THE EARLIER STAGES OF SOME SPECIES OF LITHOSIUDA. 
By W. BUCKLER anp truer Rev. J. HELLINS, M.A. 
By the help of several friends, we are again enabled to put forth 
a few words under this heading; being indebted to Mr. F. Merrifield 
