the ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
163 
Erratum . — In last week’s ‘Intelli- 
gencer,’ p. 156, line 34, omit the Rev, 
prefixed to R. E. Brameld, it having 
been added in error by the compositor. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoetera. 
Doings in, North Britain . — It was not 
until the end of May that the weather 
warranted an expedition. The east 
winds this year lingered later than ever 
at Edinburgh. On the 18th of May I 
visited Druinshorling Wood, in Linlith- 
gowshire, — a noble wood, which would 
well reward any one who would work it 
thoroughly, — and found Eupithecia in- 
digata resting on the boles of the Scotch 
firs. Geometrous larvae were plentiful. 
June 16. Peutlands. Eupithecia hel- 
veticaria (in good condition), Anchylopera 
unguicella and Melanippe Iristata : larvae 
of Eupithecia sobrinala abundant on 
juniper, ‘together with a few of Thera 
coniferata. 
June 19. Dalmeny Park. Fidonia 
piniaria abundant ; also Thera variata 
and Dicrorampha plutnbagana. 
June 26. Peutlands. Eupithecia saty- 
rata and nanala common amongst the 
heather; Melanippe Iristata abundant; 
Mixodia Schulziana, A. unguicella, E. 
pygmccata. 
J uly 2. Arthur’s Seat. Polyommalus 
Artaxerxes, Sericoris cespitana and Pem- 
pelia dilutella. 
July 5. Arthur’s Seat. Aplecta ad- 
vena, Agrotis corticea and Mamestra 
furva, at sugar. 
July 9. Druinshorling Wood. Neme- 
ophila Plantaginis (common), Anarta 
Myrlilli, Ellopia fasciaria, Maearia 
liturata, Anlithesia prwlongana and Ar- 
gyrolepia Cnicana. 
July 12. Arthur’s Seat. Miana arcuosa, 
Orthotcenia anliquana, P. dilutella ; at 
sugar A. corticea and M. farm both 
abundant. M. furva is a most restless 
species at sugar and difficult to box. 
Miana fas ciuncula and Hadena adusta. 
July 17. Musselborough Race-course. 
Orambus dumetellus and contaminellus ; 
both common, but the latter rather 
worn. 
July 26. Pentlands. Larentia ccesiata, 
Emmelesia ericetaria (this pretty little spe- 
cies was most abundant, and commenced 
flying freely about three in the after- 
noon). 
July 29. Pentlands. C. minutaria, 
E. ericetaria and Tortrix viburnana ; the 
latter extremely abundant. 
August 2 — 6. Oban, Cidaria Popu- 
lata (common), E. ericetaria (abundant), 
Larentia olivaria (almost a pest through- 
out the Highlands), and Stilbia anomala. 
August 8. Glencoe. S', anomala and 
L. olivaria. 
August 11. Killiecrankie. Erebia 
Blandina (flying freely, during a Scotch 
mist, about the tops of the hazel-bushes) 
and Cramhus falsellus. 
Glen Tilt. Aplecta herbida, flying in 
the day time, but in worn condition. 
— Murray A. Mathew, Raleigh, near 
Barnstaple ; August 20. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Larva of Acidaiia Imitaria . — I learn 
from the ‘Manual’ that the larva of 
Timandra — or rather Acidaiia — Imitaria 
was unknown when that work was 
written. In the course of last June 
I found upon broom a singular blackish 
gray Geonietra larva, very long and very 
slender, quite thread-like, with white 
marks down the back. It refused to eat 
broom, so I off'ered it a variety of plants, 
and at last it took to Rumex acetosella, 
upon which it fed till it spun its case 
and became a yellowish brown pupa. 
Yesterday it emerged a fine female 
