386 On some of the rarer Lepidoptera, by Andrew^Kelly. 



on the Tippet Knowes, Lauder Common. The caterpillar is said to 

 feed on stinging nettles, ZTrtiea dioica (Stainton's Manual, i. p. 308) 

 but Dr. Buchanan White, in correction of this, states that it always 

 feeds on heather, and never on nettles. The figure in Newman's 

 British Moths is much larger than our Berwickshire specimens. 



Catocala ntjpta. — The specimen which I possess was taken in 

 the Earlstoun old shooting range by some Blainslie boys, who 

 handed it to Mr Tait. It had not previously been found in 

 Lauderdale ; but other two had been recorded for Berwickshire. 



Notes on Paper on Ashiesteel of 1878. By Miss Russell 

 (See Club's Proceedings, Vol. VIIL, pp. ^SG-UIJ 



The stone axe turned up with spindle-whorls at Ashiesteel, 

 and now preserved there, on close inspection is not flint, but a 

 very close smooth stone, I do not know exactly of what kind ; it 

 has rather a look of limestone ; whether it may be regarded as 

 an ancient case of imposition or not, this seems to account for its 

 having broken without any wear. 



The fragments of stone with cup-markings, or at least rude 

 holes, which come under that head, of which six or seven are 

 lying at the end of the box-garden at Ashiesteel, are chiefly from 

 the sides of the road passing through the farm of Kilnknowe, 

 near Galashiels ; some of them are comparatively small stones, 

 and do not seem to be fragments of any thing larger, though 

 one looks like part of a monolith. One stone, with a projecting 

 piece left in the middle of a cup, is from the hillside on the other 

 side of the Tweed from Ashiesteel. 



On Ashiesteel hill there are several (large) stones with holes 

 that appear to be arranged in ■ rows, but are so rude as not to 

 look artificial otherwise. 



There is a large stone with two or three shallow cups, built 

 into the yard wall near one door of the dairy. There is a similar 

 one near Clovenfords, beside a gate on the road to Caddonfoot. 



In the passage room in the house is a large heavy object, 

 chipped out of white granite, which was found in ploughing the 

 bank above the haughs of Clava, near Inverness. It might be a 

 pestle, but is much too large to use by hand. It may be a port- 

 able tether for a cow ; if the heavy part was buried in the 

 ground, a small post would be left projecting, with a head which 

 would keep a rope in its place. 



OctoleTy 1880. 



