[January, 



To the three species of butterflies noted hv Mr. South as occurring 

 in Shetland may be added Etivanessa aniiojjn, recorded by Mr. J. J. F. X. 

 King (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. sxxvii, p. 226) as having been seen by him, 

 bat not captured, in the island of Unst on August 15th, 1901 ; and 

 my fi-iend Mr. Gr. Claridge Druce, the eminent botanist, who is well 

 acquainted with our butterflies, assures me that he caught a specimen 

 of Aricin astrarclie var. artaxerjccs in the same island in July 1020. 

 Coenonymplia typlion, which appears to be scarce, is probably the only 

 species really indigenous to Shetland. 



With the single exception of IlaJena sommeri Lef., also common 

 in Iceland, all the Ticpidoptera as yet recorded from the Faeroes occur 

 in Shetland. Perhaps the most noteworthy' species is Hcpialus Inimvli, 

 the Faeroese specimens of which closely resemble in both sexes the lighter- 

 coloured forms of the var. lietldandica Staud., the males especially 

 being intermediate between that variety and the white type-form.. 

 Dr. Annandale states ("The Faroes and Iceland," p. 21o) that "the 

 Ghost Moth sometimes appears in great numbers in the Faroes at the 

 end of July and the beginning of August," and the Oxford University 

 Museum possesses a fine series taken by him in the island of Eoro in 

 July 1900. 



As might have been expected from the generally wide distribution, of 

 Arctic forms, the majority of the Iceland Lejyidoptera are of species also 

 found in Northern and Central Europe, with a very slight element of 

 more southern charactei', for instance as TripJiaena proiLuha L., recorded 



