150 Lepidoptera in Roxburghshire. By Adam Elliot. 



however, appears to be about its limit of occurrence in this direc- 

 tion. Ccenonympha Davus is found in some particular spots of the 

 Border hills, and Argynnis Aglaia has also there its peculiar 

 resorts. Melitc&a Artemis has been taken in abundance near 

 Minto, and it occurs also seven or eight miles south-westward. 

 I have captured Lycmna Alsus and Artaxerxes in the valley of the 

 Slitrig in the western district, and in the eastern they have been 

 found in the Oxnam valley. The species mentioned are the 

 more notable representatives of the order Ehopalocera in these 

 districts. 



In the second order, Heterocera, and in its first group, the 

 Sphingidse, the genus Ino with its three species is represented 

 only so far as I know by Statices, a pretty but small species to be 

 met with in the western district, and I have there taken it in 

 considerable numbers in bright sunshine. I have not heard of 

 any species of Zygmna having been seen, but Filipendulce, being 

 a generally distributed species, will probably yet be recorded. 

 The larvse of Smermthus Populi are common on every species of 

 Salix and Populus, showing much variation in colour and mark- 

 ing. I have taken it from Salix alha almost white in hue, and a 

 very marked var. occurs on Populus nigra, each segment excepting 

 the first, second, and twelfth, having a purplish blotch just above 

 the spiracles, and I have this year kept a few pupse from these 

 from which I expect to observe whether or not the imago will 

 shew any variation from the usual type, these variations not 

 being at present perfectly accounted for. The well known 

 Acherontia Atropos appears occasionally in early summer, and 

 again in autumn ; the June specimens have probably hybernated, 

 or are from late autumn larvae, and just emerged from the pupa 

 state in time for the potato plants; Sphinx Convolvuli is another 

 splendid insect, and being a recurrent species is not so frequently 

 met with, but has been secured both in the eastern and western 

 districts, and I have a large specimen obtained at GHenburnhall 

 near Jedburgh in the end of August, 1881. The two rare species 

 of the Sphingidae, Deilephila Galii and Chcsrocampa Celeno have 

 both occurred ; one specimen of the latter I have from the western 

 district, and also Porcellus. Macroglossa Stellatarum and Bomby- 

 liformis are very uncertain in appearance. The larvae of Trochi- 

 lium JBenibeciforme are common in stems of Salix alha, the imagoes 

 not so often seen. 



The first family of the group of Bombyces, the Epialidae, is 



