]^9G September, 



" Scottish Naturalist " his " Insecta Scotica — Lepidopfera :" a list of 

 the 3Iiicro- Lrpidopfera of Scotland, amounting to nearly 500 species, 

 showing their distribution into thirteen districts ; these being so 

 arranged as to divide the country in accordance with its natural river- 

 basins. Much other information is given as to food and time of 

 appearance of the larvae, and dates and habits of the perfect insects, 

 with their natural range of distribution. Lest this should be in- 

 sufficient, he further sent me, before his death, a MS. list of the 

 species, corrected to date, and indicating more distinctly their distri- 

 bution in Scotland. 



Previously to this, a list of 480 species, under the title of " The 

 Lepidopterous insects of Midlothian," by Dr. W. H. Low^e and Mr. 

 R. F. Logan, was published in the " Naturalist," 1852; and in the 

 'Zoologist," 18G1, a list of 384 species "found within the province 

 of Moray," by the Rev. George Gordon, M.A. Both tbese, so far as 

 they relate to Macro- Lepidoptera, are incorporated with Dr. White's 

 general list ; but as both contain a considerable number of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera as well, they are still valuable. 



In 1879, the late Sir Thomas Moncrieffe published, in the "Scottish 

 Naturalist," a list extending to GOO species, of the Lepidoptera 

 inhabiting an area of one mile round his own house at Moncrieffe 

 Hill, Perthshire — a very useful and valuable paper, including all 

 groups of the Z<?^^Jop^era, containing an immense amount of informa- 

 tion, and even dealing largely with specific and local variation. 



For the Clyde Valley I have a MS. list, undated, but at least 

 thirty years old, by Dr. T. A. Chapman, of species taken by himself, 

 his late father, Mr. Thomas Chapman, and a few' friends. This extends 

 to 560 species, and docs not include Tineidce ; it is a useful and 

 reliable list, with many notes. More recently (1870), in "Notes on 

 the Fauna and Flora of the AVest of Scotland," Mr. J. J. King 

 furnished a list which extends to the Tineidce, and includes 680 species, 

 but only refers to a portion of the same district lying on the nortb 

 side of the Clyde. It is carefully drawn up, and gives numerous 

 localities. 



For Roxburghshire a list of between 300 and 400 species has 

 been published by Mr. Adam Elliot in the Proceedings of the Berwick- 

 shire Naturalists' Club, with notes on a few of the insects, and he 

 has since obliged me with the names of such additional species as 

 have occurred. Moreover, he has just published, in the "Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History," a revised list of species captured by himself, 

 in which a considerable number of lU icro-Lepidoptera are added. 



