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October 7th ; also late. Ep^mda nigra, October lOtli, at sugar and at rest ; E. 
viminaUs, bred from larvae on sallow, and also beaten out of bushes ; Miselia oxya- 
canthce, Agriopis aprilina, Phlogopliora meticulosa, at sugar ; Hadena protea, ditto, 
and bred ; H. dentina and H. pisi ; Cloantha soUdaginis, September, beaten out of 
<"» birch. Calocampa vetusta and exoleta, October ; the former the commonest at 
Rannoch. At Perth exoleta is much the commoner. Anarta melanopa, June 24th ; 
A. cordigera, June 20th ; both near Kinlooh-Rannoch. Ahrostola urticce, June 
30th ; Plusia interrogationis, July ; not rare among the heather, but not very easy 
to be taken. Ampliipyra tragnpogonis ; Phytometra cvnea, June 28th ; not rare. 
Herlula cespitalis, Botys fuscalis, Pionea forficalis, July 7th ; Scnpida alpinalis, 
August ; on all the high mountains of Perthshire probably. Stenopteryx liyhridalis, 
September ; the first taken in Perthshire that I know of. Scoparia pyralalis, 
atomalis, and others not yet determined. Cramhus ericellus, August ; in various 
places in the district. C. pascuellus, C. margaritclhis, August ; C tristellus, Melia 
sociella, July 28th ; Tortrix vihurnana, common ; Lithogramma cineraria, August 5th, 
at Dall ; Pcedisca solandriana, very common and variable ; Oxygraplia scotana, 
October; Pamplusia monticolana, August 13th, near Loch Ericht; Teras cauda/na, 
October; (Ecophora similella, July; Kinloch and Camachgouran. Depressaria 
suhpropinqueUa, &o., &c. — F. Buchanan White, M.D., Pei-th, 1867. 
Notes on the earlier stages of Dasypolia Templi.—This larva, discovered by Mr. 
W. R. Jeffrey, has, I am aware, been described by Mr. Newman, in Zoologist, 8788 ; 
yet, as it scarcely seems to be reckoned common at present, a few notes, which I 
have put together from the observations of myself and my friends, may not be 
uninteresting. 
In the latter part of the year 1865, Mr. H. Doubleday obtained living impreg- 
nated ? moths from Mr. Yarley, of Huddersfield, and succeeded in keeping them 
alive through the winter; one even survived a journey to M. Guenee, and, as well 
as the two retained by Mr. Doubleday, deposited eggs about March 20th, 1866, 
which he distributed to his friends, Mr. Hellins and myself amongst them. They 
were laid on the under-sides of some leaves of Heracleum sphondylium (then grown 
out to a foot in length), which were put in a box to induce them to commence 
laying. Perhaps in a state of nature, when the Heracleum leaves are backward, 
the females may deposit on the dry stems of last year's plants. The egg is not so 
flat as the usual Noctua shape, but stands up rather higher, ribbed, at first yellowish 
in colour, afterwards turning flesh colour, with a pinkish-brown spot on the top, 
and a ring rather above the middle ; finally turning blackish a day or two before 
the hatching of the larva. The larvae appeared about April 20th ; at first they 
were of a dingy ohve colour, with black heads, rather longish-looking in shape. 
Mr. Jeffrey having made the entomological world acquainted with the food, 
we had all provided some Heracleum plants ready at hand in om* gardens, and put 
out on them the larvae immediately upon their appearance ; nor had we to wait 
long in suspense as to their powers of eating. Some began by attacking the leaf 
itself and afterwards the stem ; others made at once for the stem, and commenced 
eating their way into the interior and drinking the sap which flowed into their 
little tunnels : from this point their habits as internal feeders made it difficult to 
watch their growth, but the following observations were made. 
