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Abnormal second brood of Selenia illustraria. • — Since my communication in 

 last number respecting lunaria, a still more remarkable aberration has occurred 

 with the above insect. A friend sent me a few larvae, last spring, from which I 

 had about half-a-dozen pupa). To my great disappointment, these did not produce 

 the summer insect, and I supposed them to be dead. In the last week, however, 

 of November, a female appeared. This, in itself, was strange enough ; but, what 

 was far more remarkable, it was not of the summer form. — J. Greene, Apsley 

 Road, Redland, Bristol, December, 1869. 



[We can share Mr. Greene's surprise at his insect not proving of the summer 

 form. — Eds.] 



Note on Morayshire Lepidoptera. — In the editorial note to my friend, Mr. 

 Norman's list of Noctuce at Forres, there is the following remark: "The produc- 

 tions of that district are evidently of a less boreal nature than are those of Ran- 

 noch." Now with all due deference to the editors, I think that "less boreal 7 ' 

 should be replaced by "less alpine;" for, oeeteris paribus, Forres has as many 

 boreal species as Rannoch ; otherwise the two places can scarcely be fairly com- 

 pared — one, a high-lying, cold, inland district ; the other, low-lying, warm (Forres 

 is one of the mildest and driest places in Scotland), and maritime. And it is to 

 this maritime situation that I think Forres is indebted for its southern species. 

 For taking the case of a common fern (Scolopendrium vulga,re) and a common land 

 Mollusc (Helix a.spersa), we find that, although found throughout Britain, yet in 

 the northern provinces they only occur near the sea (see Watson's Cybele, vol. iii, 

 . 283, " the tendency of plants to linger along the coast-line to a higher northern 

 latitude than that at which they will exist in inland situations"). Thus, I think 

 that many of those southern species which appear to be isolated at Forres would 

 be found at other parts (if otherwise suitable) of the northern coast line ; e.g., the 

 two southern species (not yet found at Forres) whose occurrence on the coast of 

 Forfarshire I now record.— F. Buchanan White, Perth, December 7th, 1869. 



Lepidoptera new to the Scottish lists. — Leucania littoralis and Heliothis mar- 

 ginata, not hitherto recorded as Scottish, have been taken this summer by Mr. J. 

 Bruce, on the coast of Forfarshire. Phycis subornatella, Dp., has been taken not 

 uncommonly near Perth, both last and this summer by Mr. W. Herd. My determi- 

 nation of this local species has been kindly corroborated by Mr. Doubleday. — Id. 



Pcedisca oppressana at Norwich. — I have stumbled upon a new locality for 

 Poedisca oppressana on some poplars not a quarter of a mile from my house, but 

 only took two specimens ; it seems very scarce. Perhaps the ground is already 

 oceupied, as Spilonota neglectana and aceriana abound on the same trees, while 

 Sesia apiformis has honeycombed the bark and roots.— Chas. G. Barrett, Norwich, 

 16fli November, 1869. 



Occurrence of Xylina conformis and Dasycam^ia rubiginea in Monmouthshire.— 

 I send you this, to tell you that Mr. T. Philipson, of Newport, Monmouthshire, 

 has taken Xylina conformis at sugar on October 2nd, in that county, and a friend of 

 his took another example a few days previously. On the 17th November, he took 

 Dasycampa rubiginea, settled on the trunk of a tree t — Wm. Buckler, Emsworth, 

 %oth November, 1869. 



