species rested with its fore wings much further forward than is usual 
among butterflies, so that there was a larger interval between them and 
the hind wings, the habit serving to intensify its resemblance to a dead 
leaf. Mr. Bell; a specimen of a Noctua taken on sugar at Tooting 
Common, its peculiarity being that a semi-circular patch at the outer 
side of each fore wing was entirely devoid of scales; the patches were 
remarkably symmetrical; the specimen was considered by most of those 
present to be a ? of Cerigo cytherea. Messrs. Clark, Hill, Prout, 
Battley and Dr. Sequeira exhibited Scotch lepidoptera. Mr. Oldham; 
dragon-flies and bees from Cambridgeshire. Mr. Hill read a paper 
entitled “Random Notes on Collecting Lepidoptera in Scotland,” which 
he illustrated by the contents of three cases. The paper was based on 
the writer’s experiences at Rannoch, in August, 1891, and in the 
Orkney and Shetland Islands in August, 1892. Having described the 
locality, Mr. Hill passed in review the insects he had captured. Two 
specimens of Vanessa urticae were very strongly marked, and larger than 
those met with in the South of England. Erebia blandina was met with 
abundantly in one particular spot on the banks of the Tummell; any 
number might be taken by simply walking about in the grass and net¬ 
ting those that flew up; the species was, however, extremely local; its 
flight was very similar to that of EpinepJiele ianira, but it always 
disappeared entirely and refused to be kicked out, as soon as the sun 
went in; the species was also noticed in the Pass of Killiecrankie. It 
was too late for Coenonymplia typhon, and only three specimens were 
secured; these were flying over the heather on the mountain sides at 
a considerable elevation. Two larvae of Smerinthus popnli, found on 
aspen, yielded in the following season two $ imagines which were much 
paler than the ordinary pale form, and were suffused with pink. Di- 
cranura furcula was bred from one of two larvEe found on the same 
aspens, by Mr. Salvage; this was the first time Mr. Salvage had seen 
this species at Rannoch, although he had worked the locality for 15 or 
20 years. Cymatophora or was bred from larvae found on aspen; they 
spend the day between two leaves spun together, coming out to feed at 
night; the imagines are much smaller than those received from Win¬ 
chester, and their fore wings are suffused with a pink or pale mauve 
tint. One female Stilbia anomala, was taken on the wing in the 
afternoon ; it seemed to have a tendency to fly round in a circle, and 
its movements were exceedingly rapid. Pupae of Taeniocampa gothica, 
yielded in the following spring, an interesting series of imagines, which 
vary considerably both in colour and in the usually dark central mark; 
in some of the specimens the mark is practically unicolorous with the 
rest of the wing. Are these the true var. gothicina ? Sugar was an 
entire failure. Of Geometry : Larentia didymata swarmed in every 
locality visited, the specimens being smaller and darker than the ordi¬ 
nary southern type. Larentia caesiata was also common, both at 
Rannoch and in the Shetlands; it was very difficult to discover, owing 
to its perfect resemblance to the rocks and stones on which it rested ; 
the Shetland specimens are much more strongly marked, and have a 
much darker medium band than those from Rannoch. Larentia ruji- 
cinctata , of which a fair number were taken, also rests on the rocks at 
considerable elevations on the mountain sides, and is so exactly like a 
yellow lichen which grows freely on the rocks, that the practised eye 
is necessary to detect it. The variation of Melanthia rubiginata in 
