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Ahwrmal second hrnod of Schnia illustraria. — Since my communicafe 
last number respecting lunaria, a still more remarkable aberration has ocean! 
with the above insect. A friend sent me a few larvoe, last spring, from Tidiiclt 
had about half-a-dozen pupae. To my great disappointment, these did not pmdff 
the summer insect, and I supposed them to be dead. In the last week, howto' 
of Ko-:emher, a female appeared. This, in itself, was strange enough ; but.wl 
was far more remarkable, it was not of the summer form. — J. Greenf, ApsV 
Road, Redland, Bristol, December, 1869. 
[We can share Mr. Greene's surprise at his insect not proving of the summ 
form. — Eds.] 
Note on Morayshire Lepidoptera. — In the editorial note to my friend, li 
Norman's list of NocIuk at Forres, there is the following remark : " The prodi 
tions of that district are evidently of a less boreal nature than are those ofEa 
noch." Now with all due deference to the editors, I think that "Icfs bona 
should be replaced by "less alpine;" for, cc^teris paribus, Forres has as ma 
boreal species as Eannoch ; otherwise the two places can scarcely be fairly co: 
pared — one, a high-lying, cold, inland district ; the other, low-lying, warm (Fon 
is one of the mildest and driest places in Scotland), and maritime. And it is 
this maritime situation that I think Forres is indebted for its southern specii 
For taking the case of a common fern {Scolopendriuvi vulgare) and a common la 
Mollusc [Helix aspersa), we find that, although found throughout Britain, yet 
the northern provinces they only occur near the sea (see Watson's Cybele, vol. : 
. 283, " the tendency of plants to linger along the coast-line to a higher northe 
latitude than that at which they will exist in inland situations"). Thus, I thi: 
that many of those southern species which appear to be isolated at Forres woi 
be found at other parts (if otherwise suitable) of the northern coast line ; e.g., t 
two southern species (not yet found at Forres) whose occurrence on the coast 
Forfarshire I now record.— F. Buchanan White, Perth, Becember 7th, 1869. 
Lepidoptera neio to the Scottish lists. — Leucania Uttoralis and Heliothis mi 
ginata, not hitherto recorded as Scottish, have been taken this summer by Mr, 
Bruce, on the coast of Forfarshire. Phycis subornatella. Dp., has been taken t 
uncommonly near Perth, both last and this summer by Mr. W. Herd. My deterr 
nation of this local species has been kindly corroborated by Mr. Doubleday.— Id. 
Poedisca oppressana at Norwich. — I have stumbled upon a new locality 1 
Poedisca oppressana on some poplars not a quarter of a mile from my house, I 
only took two specimens ; it seems very scarce. Perhaps the ground is alrea 
occupied, as Spilonota neglectana and aceriana abound on the same trees, wh 
Scsia apiformis has honeycombed the bark and roots. — Chas. G. Barrett, Norwic 
I6th November, 1869. 
Occurrence of Xglina conformis and Dasycampa ruliginea in Monmouthshire. 
I send you this, to tell you that Mr. T. Philipson, of Newport, Moumouthshi) 
has taken Xylina conformis at sugar on October 2nd, in that county, and a friend 
his took another example a few days previously. On the l7th November, he tO' 
Basrjcampa rubiginea , aettlecl on the trunk of a tree.— -Wm. Buckt.fr, Emsworf 
25(7^ November. 1869. 
