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P. mixiana. — Variable as it is everywhere. 

 Ampkysa Walherana. — No variety. 



Teras caudana. — All the specimens are referable to variety affradana, dull 

 coloured and slightly notched. 



Bictyopteryx Bergmaniana. — No peculiarity. 

 Penthina marginana. — Small specimens. 

 Pardia tripunctana and Jlixodia schulziana. — Pine. 

 Orthotcena antiquana. ■— Plentiful and fine, but colourless. 

 Eriopsela fractifasciana. — Tine. 



Cnepkasia musculana. — Ordinary specimens at Unst j in Shetland this 

 assumes quite a new form ! 



Clepsis rusticana, Bactria lanceolana, Phoxopteryx u?iquicana, Grapholita 

 compolitam. — No variation. 



Hypermecia augustana*- cruciana, Lin. — Fine, red, 



Ephippiphora scutulana, — Usual form. 



Pceduca solandriana and P. sordidana. — Usual form, no noticeable 

 varieties. 



Coccox finetinana — tcsdana, Lin. — Bred freely, see " Young Naturalist," 

 October, 1885, page 237. 



Pamplu&ia monticulam. — Normal. 

 Lichrorampha herlana ? — Large. 



Catopiria ulicetana. — Beautiful. They are all the var. anectana, Steph. 



C. scopoliana, Xylopoda Fabriciana, Eupicelia ruficilliana, Argyrolepia 

 Baumanniana, A. nicana, Tinea rusticella, Incurvaria Soklmaniella, Lepres- 

 saria costosa, D. applana, D. cAaropkyllivorella, Geleckia terrella s G. prox'u 

 mella.— -Normal. 



G. instabilella, Plutella annidetella, Swammerdamia griseocapatella, S% 

 bicostella, Argyresthia pygmaella, Colaophora anatipenella. — Fine. 



Pterqphorus bipunctydactylus and trigonodactylus, — Grey, 

 i One species which fed in the seed pods of Lotus comiculatus now in pupae. 



The Tinea do not vary in any way. 



In my observations on the specimens taken, I have judged them by fair 

 average English specimens. It may be observed by comparing the list given 

 by our friend Mr. Jenner Weir, in the " Entomologist ;; Vol. 15, pages 1, 2, 

 3, with this list, that Mr. Meek's collector took about ;25 species of Macro- 

 Lepidoptera which Mr. Curson never saw in Hoy, and that Mr. Curzon took 

 a little over that number of species of Micros not recorded in that list. In 

 the absence of any published account of the Tiniena taken in IS SI, the 

 present list must be taken as the first instalment of the Tinea of Hoy, and 

 these 18 species added to his 28 species of Macros recorded makes 46 species 



