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per seasons, certain species of insects; and in ascertaining what 

 particular species were to be found in our inland and rural 

 district?, as well as on the maritime coasts of the county. 



The list, when completed, will shew with what success my 

 labours have been crowned. With very few exceptions, the 

 captures have been all my own, and the greater majority of 

 them have been either reared from the ova, or bred from the 

 larvae; the remainder have been taken by the net, and a few by 



RHOPALOCERA. 



Colias Edusa. — This butterfly was taken in the month of 

 June, 1854, in a garden at Newfield ; another, the same year, 

 near Fullarton House, and some others in different* localities. 

 No account of its appearance in the county since. 



Pieris brassic/e swarms in every garden ; the larvae commit 

 great havoc among the cabbages and green kale. 



P. rap^e. — Abundant in all our gardens. Occasionally vari- 

 eties of this insect are taken. 



P. napi is abundant in all our turnip fields, and road- 

 sides. We have frequently captured some pretty varieties of 

 this insect, especially in localities where the Nasturtium officinale 

 was growing abundantly. 



Anthocharis cardamines. — This pretty butterfly is generally 

 distributed throughout the district, and is in some localities rather 

 common, especially by damp roadsides and marshy places, where 

 the Cardamine pratensis is found. 



Lasiommata Egeria. — This species is rather local, and no- 

 where abundant in the county. The only locality known to me 

 is one near Ballochmyle Bridge, in an open wood. 



L. Meg/era may be found in almost every parish, by the road- 

 sides, and edges of dry cultivated fields, in June, August, and 

 September. 



Satyrus Semele is very abundant here, from Ayr to Irvine, 

 all along the sea shore, on the sand hills. The larvae feed on 

 the Triticum repens by night, and have been picked off that 

 plant in dozens, by the writer of this list. 



S. Janira. — This species is by far the most abundant of our 



