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Cacia only flies about twenty minutes, and its flight being over, I lighted up 

 and secured one larva each of Folia nigrocincta var. statices and Fpunda 

 nigra 3 and this closed a very pleasant evening and night on the rocks at Isle 

 of Man in June. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Jottings from Glasgow. — What delightful weather we have been ex- 

 periencing during the past few days ! What glorious weather for the woods 

 and fields, and how one longs to get away from the close and musty city, out 

 to the green and open country, where insect life abounds ! And yet, in such 

 weather as this, when the longed for opportunity arrives, the ardent entomo- 

 logist finds collecting anything but the pleasure he anticipated. The very 

 woods seem like a furnace, and to pursue active insects on such a day is by 

 no means recreative. On Saturday last the members of the Clydesdale 

 Naturalists' Society paid a visit to the Paisley district, for the purpose 

 specially of collecting lepidoptera. The day was extremely warm, so hot, 

 indeed, that we only ventured a short distance from Paisley, to the Newton 

 Woods, and here, after a short search for specimens, we had to give up collect- 

 ing and seek the shelter of the shadiest pine trees. Even that very desirable 

 variety, Bouchardana, a specimen of which was startled from a pine branch 

 and netted, was not sufficiently attractive to induce us to further exertion in 

 that fierce broiling sun. Our captures, consequently, were by no means 

 numerous, but most of the specimens taken had the recommendation of being 

 in splendid condition. Eupithecia indigata was pretty common among the 

 pine trees, and by shaking the branches a fair number of Fidonia piniaria 

 were startled and netted. I perhaps saw more specimens of the female of 

 this species on this occasion than I can remember having seen before. This 

 was, no doubt, owing to the great heat of the day, for I have often noticed 

 that the female, usually a sluggish insect, will not readily take flight unless 

 on a very warm day. We saw almost as many of the one sex as of the other. 

 Odontopera hidentata was taken at rest on a pine trunk, and Lophopteryx 

 camelina on a beech. These, with a number of very good tortrices, completed 

 our captures for the short time we were at work. The lepidopterists here are 

 pow busy gathering in a rich harvest of nice specimens while the opportunity 

 iasts. Cold wet weather made the season somewhat late, but these last few 

 splendid days have brought out insect life in great abundance. At one little 



