THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES, ORKNEY, 



AND SHETLAND. 



OUR readers will have observed that for several years the 

 Zoology and the Botany of the Scottish Islands has been 

 attracting attention, with the result that very great progress has 

 been made in extending the bounds of our knowledge of their in- 

 digenous fauna and flora. In this journal we have always made 

 it a special aim to present to our readers a statement of the more 

 important papers upon all branches of the fauna and flora of the 

 natural history of Scotland that appear in other journals or in the 

 publications of scientific societies. In pursuance of this aim, we 

 now submit the following list of the Lepidoptera of the Western 

 and Northern Islands, prepared from two lists by Mr. Richard 

 South, which appeared in the numbers of the Entomologist for 

 February and April of this year. Mr. South's lists are compiled 

 from the " Lepidoptera of Scotland," edited by Dr. White in the 

 volumes of the first series of the Scottish Naturalist, from a paper 

 published in 1882 by Dr. White on " The Lepidoptera of Orkney, 

 Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides," in the same journal, and from 

 information supplied by several entomologists, whose assistance is 

 acknowledged by Mr. South. 



The list of the islands is here given in full, as likely to be of 

 more value to Scotch entomologists in this form than if it were re- 

 stricted to an enumeration of the additions to Dr. White's paper 

 exclusively. It does not enter much into the variations met with 

 among the Lepidoptera in the three groups of islands ; but this 

 gap is to some extent filled by Herr Hoffmann's paper on the 

 " Lepidoptera of the Shetland Islands," of which a translation 

 appeared in our pages in October, 1885, and January, 1886. 



In the list H. denotes the Outer Hebrides, O. denotes Orkney, 

 and S. Shetland. 



Rhopalocera. 



Pieris Brassicae. H. O. 



,, Rapse. O. S. 



