NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA OF GLEN FENDER AND INVERSHIN. 11 



Fumea like casta, but larger, quite 15 mm. in wing expanse, 

 was bred from two or three spun-up cases found on a rock. 

 They are, I think there is little doubt, the Fumea scotica, 

 Chapman. I searched carefully for cases, but they were scarce ; 

 less than half-a-dozen were obtained, all of them on one boulder, 

 from one of which the moth had already emerged. 



I was surprised to find Lobophora viretata so far north. An 

 example of Peronea niveana was found on a rock by the side of 

 the Shin; also Cydia fractifasciana on the moor. Near the river 

 bank, among Arctostaphylos uva ursi, Eucosma arbutella and 

 E. mygindana sparingly ; Epiblema nemorivaga more freely. 

 ■Some of the Pyrausta purpuralis obtained were unusually bright. 



On my return home I visited the Natural History Museum, 

 and had the pleasure of an interview with Mr. Durrant. He it 

 was who, always helpful, drew my attention to Buxton's own 

 communication (which I had somehow missed) to the 'Ento- 

 mologist,' vol. iii, pp. 24, 25, in which further and more precise 

 particulars are given of the capture, in the years 1853 and 1854 

 respectively, of Chalybe pyrausta and Roslerstammia pronubella 

 •between the upper and lower falls of the Shin. 



At Invershin, close to the inn and railway station, some 

 insects of special interest occurred. They were for the most part 

 in small numbers, but the quality was good — Retinia posticana, 

 Laspeyresia cogriatana (well marked and of large size), Evetria 

 resinella abundant. I was pleased to breed a very handsome 

 Cosmophorana from resin balls gathered for Resinella. Thera 

 cognata and T. juniper ata larvas were beaten from juniper, and 

 with them Eriocepliala aureatella imagines in some numbers. 



[The above notes were written by Mr. Whittle a few days 

 before his death. It is not surprising that he did not meet with 

 the rare Lepidoptera reported by E. C. Buxton from Invershin, 

 supposing that they are still to be found there ; for, with respect 

 to Chalybe pyrausta, I know he expected to find it amongst its 

 reputed food-plant, Thalictrum, but Buxton states that be thought 

 he beat it from blackthorn, Rosier stn mmia pronubella, from beech. 

 Buxton's recollections, written thirteen years afterwards, are 

 probably at fault, for I do not think there is any blackthorn on 

 the banks of the Shin, and I am still more strongly of opinion 

 that beech does not grow there. I presume for beech one should 

 read birch, which is abundant; the only other trees I can recollect 

 there are sallow and rowan. Mr. Whittle wrote me in May last 

 that he had found a species of Thalictrum growing at Invershin, 

 probably T. alpinum. — W. G. Sheldon.] 



