4 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA OF ST. ANDREWS. 



In my next paper I intend to conduct your readers through the mountain- 

 passes to the bay of Islands, through scenery which it is almost impossible to 

 describe so as to do justice to its beauty. 



Martin Hall, Nottinghamshire, 

 November 30, 1837- 



LIST OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA CAPTURED IN THE NEIGH- 

 BOURHOOD OF ST. ANDREWS IN 1837. 

 With Observations, etc. 

 By Henry Buist. 



Having been a constant reader of your valuable and useful magazine, The 

 Naturalist, since its commencement, I assure you I have derived great pleasure 

 as well as obtained much useful information from the perusal of the contents of 

 your monthly numbers as they appear, and always look forward with great 

 pleasure to the beginning of each month when The Naturalist arrives, I have 

 sent you the following list of Diurnal Lepidoptera taken by me this season in the 

 neighbourhood of St. Andrews, with observations on their time of appearance, 

 &c, hoping that it may prove interesting to at least a few of your numerous 

 readers, as it gives an idea of what Papilios they may expect to find in this 

 district. 



The Butterflies enumerated in the following short list were all taken by my- 

 self this season, none of them at a greater distance than two miles from the city 

 of St. Andrews, which is situated on the East coast of Fifeshire, on a small bay 

 called St. Andrew's Bay. The climate here is particularly pure and healthy, 

 owing no doubt to its position with regard to the sea and adjacent country. The 

 weather, however, is generally cold and disagreeable in spring, on account of the 

 North-East winds generally prevailing during the months of April and May, and 

 bringing with them cold unpleasant vapours which load the air and check vege- 

 tation. Epidemic or contagious diseases are hardly ever known here, but the 

 climate is thought to be too sharp and penetrating for rheumatic constitutions, or 

 those who are threatened with consumptive complaints. The latitude of St. 

 Andrews is 56° 19' 33" north, true to a second, and the longitude 2° 50' west 

 from Greenwich. The medium temperature of the air at St. Andrews was 

 found by the late Dr. Jackson, Professor of Natural Philosophy here, from eight 

 years observation, to be 43° 374' of Fahrenheit. A small stream called the 

 Kinnes burn skirts the town on the South, on the banks of which stream I have 



