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On Lepidoptera in Roxburghshire. Part II. By Adam 

 Elliot, Caverton, Jedburgh. 



I HAVE now, by request of Mr Hardy and in continuation of 

 former Notes and List of Lepidoptera occurring in Roxburgh- 

 shire, and contained in vol. x. pp. 149-158 of the Club's Proceed- 

 ings, made out a Supplementary List of Species, some of these 

 having been omitted by mistake from the former list, and others 

 taken since then, and I may preface it by a few observations. 



The past summer having been a more seasonable one than we 

 have been accustomed to of late years, with more sunshine, and 

 a higher temperature throughout, we have, whether as a conse- 

 quence or not, had an advent of a few species of our Rhopalocera, 

 which usually are only seen in any abundance in occasional 

 years, and frequently at long intervals of recurrence. One of the 

 species I refer to is the Scotch Argus, Erehia Blandina, which I 

 saw abundantly in the beginning of August in the eastern district 

 of the county, but apparently confined within a very limited area. 

 Vanessa Atalanta, another insect worthy of note, being one of the 

 finest species of the Family Yanessidse, appeared in considerable 

 numbers during September and October, the earlier specimens 

 being strong in flight and difficult of capture, but when near 

 hybernation are more easily taken, and I secured a series of 

 specimens, principally during the latter month. The sap from 

 an oak tree, from which a large branch had been cut, formed a 

 special attraction for Atalanta, and early in October I frequently 

 observed six or more of these fine insects settled on the branch, 

 or in its immediate vicinity. Vanessa lo, a congener of Atalanta, 

 is a very scarce insect in Roxburghshire. It is many years since 

 I took two specimens in the western district, and I have not seen 

 another since. They were on flowers of the common Knapweed 

 in the glade of a fir plantation. 



In former notes I mentioned the occurrence of a peculiar 

 variety of the larvae of Smerinthus Populi feeding upon the leaves 

 of Populus nigra. From these I have since bred the perfect 

 insect, but in no way have found it to differ from ordinary 

 typical specimens, and so in this instance the variation in the 

 larvae does not appear to have a like effect upon its imago or 

 perfect state. 



Of the rarer species of the Heterocera I was fortunate in taking 

 a fine male specimen of Leiocampa Dictceoides at night early in 



