specimen. And von Ileinemann, in his “ Sclimetterlinge Peutschlands und dcr 
Schweiz, mentions the species not as having occurred, but as likely io occur in the 
North-eastern districts oi Germany. Professor Zeller was, at one time, much 
exercised m his spirit as to whether this might not prove to be the veritable farinalis 
of Linne, but I believe he settled down ultimately in the old established faith, and 
our nomenclature of the two species has thus not been rudely disturbed— H. T. S.] 
Notes on Lepuloptera taken in Roxburghshire in 1880.— I have made a few 
notes of some species of moths which I have taken during last season in this district 
of Roxburghshire, and which may be of some interest, as a few of them, I think, 
are not generally understood to occur so far north. Any of the species noted of 
which I had any doubt as to identity, have been confirmed by Mr. C. G. Barrett, 
and so may be relied upon. 
Of the Sphingidce, I obtained one specimen only of Acherontia Atropos, found 
at rest in June. Of & esiidee, I took two fine specimens of Sesia bembeciformis, which 
emerged from some old sallow bushes, which had been cut in March and laid up for 
firewood, the moths emerging in the beginning of July. Of the Ilepialidce, II. 
sylvinus and velleda are both very common ; the former swarms on a steep hill-side 
with patches of bracken and open places, in July, and higher up the hill, where the 
ground in places is a little marshy, velleda may be seen starting about at dusk very 
commonly. Of Chelonidce, I found C. plantciginis at one particular locality very 
plentiful ; the moths were flying over patches of bare heather and marshy ground 
or moorland, near to an extensive wood of Scotch and spruce fir. When I first 
discovered them I took over a dozen specimens, all of them $ , and I did not succeed 
in taking a <j? specimen ; the moths seemed to fly best about 4 p.m. I found two 
cocoons of Arctia fuliginosa spun up on heath in May, and both produced fine 
specimens in June. Of Geometrce , I took several $ specimens of Ilybernia auran- 
iiaria in autumn. Cheimalobia boreata is common, and I have usually found it 
settled on hawthorn twigs, more commonly when bordering plantations of firs. 
Oporabia Jiligrammaria was also very common last autumn, and showing considerable 
variety in the specimens, both as to size and shades of colouring; I saw them fre- 
quently on the sugared trees, and flying at dusk, and often started them during the 
daytime when passing among the trees in small plantations, principally of Scotch 
fir. I got one specimen of autumnaria at dusk, when sugaring trees on a rather 
high moorland locality ; it differs from Jiligrammaria by all the wings being more 
elongate in form, and there is a distinct discoidal spot on hind-wings, it also occurred 
about a month earlier. I found Lareniia salicata moderately common, sitting on 
trunks of Scotch fir in an extensive plantation of old trees ; here, also, coisicda wus 
very abundant, and Cularia populata pretty common. I took a few specimens 
of JEupithecia indigata mostly along the borders of fir woods, and pygmeeata flying 
during the day. Melanippe trislaia is common in one locality in what may be 
termed hilly heath-ground ; I found it in the glades of a rather extensive fir planta- 
tion running along a moorland ridge, flying among the flowers in the sunshine and 
again at dusk. Anticlea derivata occurs sparingly ; I took one specimen at rest on 
an elm trunk, and two more near a hedge of beech at dusk. Cidaria psittacata and 
iniata are both tolerably common in autumn, and the latter after hibernation ; sujjn- 
mata occurs plentifully in the fir woods, but the var. piceata is scarce. Chesias 
