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On Lepidoptera, taken mostly in 1873. 



I. — Preston. By John Anderson. 



Vanessa Io. A single specimen at Primrose-hill, in autumn, by 



a young collector. 

 Ntjdaria mundana. Apparently common. 

 Hola cristulalis. One. 



Hydr2ecta nictitans. One on thistle. Autumn. 

 TLeniocampa rttbricosa. At sallow blossoms. 

 Anchochelis rttfina. About oaks. 

 Pltjsia Festuce. One. 



Ephyra punctaria. Common on Marygold hills. 

 Halias prasinana. Preston. 

 Hybernia atjrantiaria and defoliaria. One of each. Autumn. 



My brother captured : — 

 Agriopus Apbilina. Preston. 

 Euplexia LUCiPARA. One, Broomhouse. 

 Plusia bractea. One, Broomhouse. 

 Ennomos Tiliaria. Preston. 

 Eitbolia cervinabia. One from caterpillar, and others flying at 



Broomhouse. 



II. — Lauderdale, &c. By Andrew Kelly. 



Vanessa Antiopa, Mr. Walter Simpson captured this butterfly 

 thirty years ago in Standalone plantation, and it is still in his 

 cabinet, noways faded. In 1872 mine was taken in the same 

 wood. 



Satyrus Meg^ra. Taken by the same gentleman several years 

 ago, flying swiftly about the hedgerows near Lauder ; subse- 

 quently it has not been seen. 



Vanessa Io. Several specimens have been taken in the out- 

 skirts of Allanbank plantations, Lauder. In the winter of 1 852 

 or 3, Mr. Simpson found this butterfly hybernating under the 

 bark of a tree in Standalone. 



Lithosia quadra. Only one capture has been made of tbis 

 singularly rare insect by an Ayton collector (Mr. Thomas 

 Kenton). It was sipping the moisture oozing from the tanpits. 

 New to Scotland. 



Acronycta leporina. Local, Dunse Law. Mr. D. Paterson. 

 „ Lygustri. At sugar, Hawick. Mr.Turnbull. Not rare. 



Hydr^ecia nictitans. Alynehead bog, on Lauder Common, very 

 plentiful. I noticed about a dozen males assembled round a 

 female. 



Chap.jeas Graminis. Longcroffc Braid Bog. There is here an 

 area of twenty or thirty acres choke full of the caterpillars of 

 this destructive insect. 



