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perfect, but often they won't wait for the bottle. Long before it is dusk 

 they will come to the sweets ; but from 9 p.m. till 9.30 or 9.45 p.m. is the 

 time when they may fairly be called " thick," that is to say, two and three 

 on a tree. Forty was our biggest take in one night. A word about 

 T. subsequa : Is this in a true sense a distinct species from T. orhona ? 

 A well-known local collector in the forest told me he had obtained ova from 

 subsequa, and therefrom bred subsequa and orbona intermixed, pointing out 

 at the time the specimens. — C. J. Nash Pitnacree, Culver Road, Reading, 

 July, 1896. 



Lepidoptera of Argyllshire. — The following is a list of some of the 

 Macro-Lepidoptera vfhich I have taken in Argyllshire about Loch Riddon 

 during the last few years, and chiefly in the months of August and Sep- 

 tember. In a little book, entitled * The Fauna and Flora of Clydesdale and 

 the West of Scotland,' 1876, Mr. King gives a list of the Lepidoptera taken 

 chiefly within ten miles round Glasgow on the north side of the Clyde, and 

 at a few outlying localities. I suppose Loch Riddon might come among such 

 outlying localities as it is an offshoot of *' The Clyde," and so it is not sur- 

 prising that almost every insect that I took had been already recorded for the 

 district. The country is mountainous, and well wooded near the sea-level. 



Rhopalocera : — Pieris brassicm. Larvae were found every year about 

 the garden ; pupse were generally attached to the trunks of some small 

 trees in a neighbouring plantation. — Vanessa urticcs. Images hybernated 

 every year in the house ; they would sit upon the ceilings in dark corners 

 and passages all through August, even when the weather was very hot, and 

 when disturbed they would immediately go back to their places and settle 

 down quietly as before. — Erebia (Ethiops [blandina). Very common in 

 places ; I took one female specimen which has no white centres to the black 

 spots on the fore wings, and as these black spots are rather larger than 

 usual and contained in a somewhat extra wide chestnut blotch, the insect 

 has a curious appearance. — Lyccena icarus. One specimen on August 15th ; 

 this date would seem to indicate that it belonged to a second brood. 



Sphinges and Bombyces : — Macroglossa fuciformis, L. (South 's List),= 

 Hemaris tityus, L. (Kirby, ante, p. 40). One larva, which pupated on 

 August 20th ; this seems rather late even for Scotland. — Hylophila 

 2)rasinana. One larva. — Spilosoma fuliginosa. The larva of this moth 

 appears to me to require food in the spring after hybernation, although 

 they will spin up without any, and produce stunted specimens; on the other 

 hand, Bornbyx rubi certainly do not feed after hybernation. — S. men- 

 thastri. Fore wings always cream colour; never white. — Orgyia antiqua, 

 Bornbyx calluncB. Larva only common once, i. e. in 1893. — B. rubi. 

 Larva always very common. — Odonestis potatoria. One imago and larvae 

 several times on the moors, but not at much elevation ; Mr. King, in his 

 list, also mentions this moth; but Mr. Barrett (Brit. Lep. vol. ii.) says of 

 it, "apparently absent from Scotland." — Drepana lacertiuaria, D.furcula. 

 — Notodonta dictcea. Of a much whiter colour than South England speci- 

 mens; just like those figured and described in Mr. Barrett's book as 

 coming from Aberdeen. — N. chaonia. One specimen. 



Noctuae : — Demas coryli. — Acronycta rumicis. Scarce, all darkish. — 

 A. menyanthidis. Larva often not uncommon on the moors, and feeding 

 upon almost anything ; I found that they generally died in pupa. — 

 Leucania comma. — Cmnobia ruja. Often seen flying on the moors towards 

 dusk. — Hydrcecia nictitans. Often to be found not uncommonly at rest on 

 heads of ragwort, generally in a worn condition ; they all seem to me to 



