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Subsequently other three were captured — two at Tweedmouth, 

 and one atSpittal. (Ber. Adv., Sept. 17). On Sept. 7th, a locust 

 was found on Caledonia Farm, Juniper Green, in a field of oats. 

 (Scotsman, Sept. 9.) A locust was found about the end of August 

 by a schoolboy in a field of grass near the Old Man of Wick, 

 Caithness-shire (Ibid, Sept. 13), and another, the third in as 

 many weeks, was caught alive in the island of South Eonald- 

 shay, Orkney, by Mr Magnus Cromarty (Ibid). Before the end 

 of September, Mr Andrew Eeid, gardener, found a specimen at 

 Wellfield, near Hawick, and two were found at the Hawick 

 County Police Station. (Eelso Chron., Oct. 8). Sept. 23rd 

 another had been captured in a half torpid condition by harvesters 

 at Whitehouse on the Mertoun estate, having been brought 

 among some sheaves of corn to the stackyard. When sent to Mr 

 Brotherston, it nibbled for almost a whole day at a cabbage leaf, 

 varying its diet by an occasional bite of wheaten bread. A stiU 

 larger specimen was found at Cessford, Sept. 28, and brought to 

 Kelso by Mr Wood, keeper. Floors, (lb. Oct. 1). Mr Brother- 

 ston heard of several that were not recorded, among others one 

 taken at Otterburn. A locust was found at Haithwaite Farm, 

 NichoHorest, Cumberland, and several were found on the cliffs 

 near Scarborough in the last week but one of September. (Eelso 

 Chron., Oct. 1). I examined one of the specimens of this flight, 

 and ascertained that it was correctly determined. 



Death's Head Moth. — ^A fine death's head Moth (Aeherontia 

 Afrojpos) was found by Mr D. Elder among the stems of some 

 champion potatoes, near Hawick, in the end of September; it died 

 shortly after being picked up. — (Kelso Chron., Oct. 1.) Mr A. 

 Elliot, Samieston, Jedburgh, obtained a single specimen of this 

 moth at rest in June. See some interesting notes by him on 

 some of the rarer Lepidoptera, taken in Eoxburghshire in 1880, 

 in "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," April, 1881, pp. 257-8. 



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