THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. LV.] APKIL, 1922. [No. 707 



EDITOEIAL. 

 For a period of over thirty years it has been my much 

 valued privilege to conduct this Journal. Under advice, how- 

 ever, I have now reluctantly decided to withdraw from some of 

 the duties this work entails. To this end Captain Norman D. 

 Eiley has very kindly undertaken to act as Editor for me from 

 May next. [E. S.] 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTEBA OF THE ASSYNT 

 DISTBICT OF SUTHERLANDSHIRE. 



By W. G. Sheldon, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 57.) 



Eulype hastata. — I only saw one example ; this was at Loch- 

 inver and in the possession of Mr. Whittle. It was the form 

 subhastata, Nolc, or near it. 



Mesoleuca ocellata.* — Common. 



Perizoma alchemillata. — One example at Inchnadamph. 



P. albulata* — Common in meadows. 



P. minorata. — Not uncommon on rocks at Lochinver. 



P. blandiata* — Abundant ; the form is in some instances 

 distinctly more banded than Eannoch specimens. 



Camptogramma bilineata* — Abundant ; most of the speci- 

 mens are much darkened ; some of them are similar to ab. 

 hibernica, Prout, as figured in South's ' Moths of the British 

 Isles,' pi. 61, rig. 5, and some are even darker than that 

 specimen. 



Hydriomena f areata. — The larv* of this species were common 

 at Lochinver on the sallows. I beat out some three dozen, from 

 which I only bred six examples, but these made me wish I had a 

 much longer series. No two of the specimens are alike and they 

 are all good aberrations. One is ab. infuscata, Staud. ; two are 

 forms near fusco-undata, Donovan. The most remarkable example 

 has white ground-colour to the superiors, clouded and mottled 

 with bright chestnut colour, and some black transverse markings. 



H. impluviata.— Lochinver, amongst alder; the only example 

 brought home is a light-coloured variegated form. 



H.mberata.— Some half-dozen larvae turned up amongst sallow 

 tips gathered to rear Peronea hastiana from. 



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