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In 1892 Dr. E. W. Carlier contributed to tbe " Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History " a list of over 100 species found at Balerno, Mid- 

 lothian, with numerous notes. This does not extend to the Ilicro- 

 Lepidoptera. The latter are, however, included, and very fully 

 represented, in " Notes on Lepidoptera collected in the Edinburgh 

 district" by Mr. W. Evans, F.R.S.E., published in the same periodical 

 in the present year. The writer, in the Macro-Lepidoptern , mentions 

 only the more important and scarcer species, but goes very thoroughly 

 into the later groups, furnishing the results of his own assiduous 

 collecting of them for the last two or three years, supplying localities, 

 notes, and indeed almost all that we know about the Micro-Lepidoptera 

 of the Forth district. 



In vol. vii of this Magazine is a paper by Dr. E. Buchanan White 

 upon the Lepidoptera of Strathglass, w^herein he recorded about 200 

 species ; but with this exception, I find no connected list of species 

 for Inverness-shire, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, Argyleshire, or 

 Sutherlandshire, although all these are well known and rich collecting 

 districts. 



It is quite otherwise with the Isles, notwithstanding that their 

 species are, apparently, far less numerous. In the " Entomologist," 

 1888, are lists of 146 species in the Hebrides, 108 in the Orkneys, 

 and 96 in the Shetland Isles ; and although these are mainly the 

 results of working in one or two islands in each group, an extension 

 of the investigation to other islands does not appear greatly to increase 

 the number of species ; but thirteen additions are made to the Shetland 

 List by Messrs. J. J. F. X. King, Percy M. Bright, and Wm. Keid, in 

 their record of "Ten weeks' collecting in Unst " in this Magazine for 

 January, 1896. 



For Ireland the first collected list seems to have been that by the 

 Rev. J. Greene and the Rev. A. R. Hogan, published about 1856 by 

 the " Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association ;" this, 

 which I have not seen, is said to have contained 636 species. 



These were further included, with numerous additions, in the 

 " Lepidoptera of Ireland," by the late Mr. Edwin Birchall, published 

 in this Magazine for 1860-7. This extended to 1000 species, including 

 the Tineidcp, with numerous interesting notes, but also some apparently 

 erroneous entries. After his spending many years in verifying or 

 correcting these doubtful entries, and in extensive collecting in 

 various previously unworked portions of Ireland, a very full Catalogue 

 is at the present time in course of publication by Mr. W. F. de V. 

 Kane, in the "Entomologist." In the Macro- Lepidoptera, now com- 



