1892.] 



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found sitting on Scotch fir trunks, towards night, with its wings 

 folded over its back. 



Ypsipetes ruberata. — Local and rare. Mr. Esson captured 

 several a few years ago at Derncleagh, and Mr. MacAldowie also had 

 it from the same locality. 



Ypsipetes impluviata. — Abundant among alders, variable. 



Ypsipetes elutata. — Abundant, varies from bright green through 

 every shade of brown and bright red to black ; combinations of all 

 these colours are also found. Specimens from the moors are generally 

 small and dark, or very brightly coloured, with a mixture of brown, 

 black, and red, but seldom with any green ! lower down they are 

 large and nearly always green ; but 1 have taken nearly all the 

 varieties in one wood, so that there is no hard and fast line of demar- 

 cation between the lowland and upland forms. 



Melanthia rubiginata. — Rather local, but common in damp 

 places in woods. The central bar in all our specimens exhibits a 

 tendency to run across the wing unbroken. 



Melanthia ocellata. — Abundant everywhere. Dr. Buckall points 

 out " that our Ocellata are more smoky tow^ards the apex of superior 

 wings than in English examples." 



Melanippe tristata. - Local, Braemar (Dr. White). 



Melanippe subtristata (Sociata). — Common everywhere. 



Melanippe montanata. — Abundant, and very variable. I saw 

 a pure white specimen taken last year (1891) with the stigmata, or 

 central bar, shewing as a round small dot. 



Melanippe fluctuata.— Common everywhere, and also very 

 variable. 



Melanippe fluctuala var. Neapolista, (Mill). — Not rare, 

 found everywhere where I have collected. 



Anticlea badiata. — Rather rare about Inverurie and Pitcaple. 



Anticlea derivata. — Rare at Inverurie and Fyvie, not scarce 

 about Pitcaple 



Coremia munitata. — Common everywhere, especially near 

 streams. 



Coremia propugnata. — Widely distributed, rather scarce. 

 Coremia ferrugata. — Common almost everywhere. 

 Camptogramma bilineata — Abundant everywhere, $ 's vary 

 much. 



Phibalaptei yx lignata. — Rare, Inverurie, Fyvie, and links at 

 Aberdeen (L 201). 



Cidaria psittacata. — Rather local, but not rare. 

 Cidaria miata. — Common, larvae on birch and sallows. 



(To be coiili)incd) . 



