INSECTS CAPTURED IN ISLAND OF RAASAY 299 



NOTES ON INSECTS CAPTURED IN THE 

 ISLAND OF RAASAY. 



By William Evans and Percy H. Grimshaw. 



The following insects were taken by Mrs J. H. Gaskell 

 during a stay of two months on the island of Raasay in the 

 past summer, and submitted to us for determination and 

 record. At our request Mrs Gaskell kindly supplied some 

 information regarding the nature of the country where the 

 insects were obtained. In her letter she states that the 

 south end of the island near the house is well wooded, and 

 there is a little arable land and some grass. The specimens 

 indicated as caught " in bracken " were all caught very near 

 the sea in very thick bracken, while those marked " in grass " 

 were taken on the lawns b}- the house, which stands on the 

 edge of a wood (mainly larch and Scots pine) and has fields 

 in front which slope down to the sea. 



Lepidoptera. 



Six species of butterflies and six of moths were taken as 

 follows: — Vanessa urtica, T.., one, 8th August; Argyntiis ag/aia, 

 L., one male and one female, 28th July ; Argyiuiis selene, Schiff., one, 

 24th July, and one, 26th July : Erebia (Fthiops, Esp., two, 26th July, 

 caught in marshy ground on the edges of the moor, seen in great 

 numbers ; Epinephele Janira, L., two males, 24th July : Ccenonywpha 

 pamphilus, L., one in bracken, 19th July; Metrocampa tnargari- 

 taria, L., one, 2nd August; Acidalia fnmata, St., one, 25th July; 

 Bupahis piniaria, L., one, 24th July; Melanippe montanata, Bork., 

 one, 24th July ; Camptogramma bilineafa, L., one in bracken, 

 19th July, and one in heather, 26th July; Craftibus culmellus, L., 

 two in heather, 25th July. 



Hymenoptera. 



Bombus bicorum. Smith, one, 22nd July; Bombus ini/scoriifn, L., 

 one female, 19th July; Tenthredo olivacea, Htg., one female in 

 heather, 25th July; Glypta sp., one female in grass, 8th August; 

 and a specimen, not determined, belonging to the tribe Phyga- 

 deuonides (Fam. IchneumonidcB), taken in bracken, 19th July. 



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