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reaches to Bavelaw Burn on the south, is surrounded by 

 fields on the east and north, and overlooks the common 

 towards the setting sun. 



The area is therefore by no means a large one, but 

 actually teems with many forms of insect life. 



This list is compiled mainly from my own notes, which 

 extend over a period of nine years, and contains only those 

 species that I have been fortunate enough either to catch 

 myself or to see captured by my friends. It is therefore 

 necessarily incomplete, but contains some few species which, 

 as far as I can ascertain, have not hitherto been recorded as 

 occurring in the locality. Unfortunately my visits have been 

 almost entirely confined to Saturday afternoon rambles, and 

 therefore those species which fly only by night will not be 

 found in any great number in it. 



One night, and one only, was I able to devote to sugaring 

 in the wood. It did not prove a success, only yielding some 

 dozen Monoglypha ; but by searching the trunks of trees 

 and beating up the undergrowth I have, however, managed 

 to take a few specimens of some night-flying species. 



My friend Mr. W. Evans, F.R.S.E., etc., to whom I am 

 indebted for great assistance, has kindly consented to 

 supplement my list from his own notes, which are voluminous 

 and extend over a much longer period. The notes on 

 additional species supplied by Mr. Evans will appear as an 

 appendix at the end of my list, followed by others also 

 supplied by him from the diary of Mr. Andrew Wilson, 

 Dentist, Edinburgh. Some of Mr. Wilson's captures, which 

 were made between 1852 and 1858, were probably taken 

 outside, though close to, my limits. 



Dr. Northcote has also kindly supplied me with a list of 

 captures from the same locality which I have incorporated 

 with my own. I have also drawn attention to the species 

 mentioned by Lowe and Logan — marking them L. & L. — 

 both in their " List of the Lepidopterous Insects of Mid- 

 lothian," and the additions thereto recorded in vol. i. pp. 3,4, 

 and 259 of the "Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society 

 of Edinburgh." 



The arrangement and nomenclature followed in this list is 

 that of Mr. Richard South, F.E.S. 



