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north of. Scotland. Confining our attention to those specially 
noted as occurring in, Aberdeenshire, or as being generally 
distributed, we find 494 species and 6 varieties given as 
occurring in the district, but frequently with little indication 
of locality. 
Next follows an “ evidently imperfect ” list of the other orders 
of insects, “drawn up by Mr. P. H. Macgillivray, and princi- 
pally extracted from a manuscript account of the insects of 
the North-East of Scotland, by Dr. Macgillivray.” Unfortun- 
ately, localities are seldom noted, and the numerous errors in 
identification of species deprives the list of all value in the 
case of rare species, save when very distinct and unmistakeable. 
When localities are given, they are not in any case in Braemar ; 
so that the list is rather out of place in this work. Employing 
the orders in the Linnean sense we find enumerated 3 ORTHOP- 
TERA, viz. Forficula auricularia, Acheta domestica, Locusta 
migratoria. Of NEUROPTERA are enumerated 11 Jibellulidae, 
Crysopa Perla, and 4 Trichoptera. Of HYMENOPTERA, 9 species ; 
of Lepipoprera, 19 species of butterflies and 36 species of 
moths ; of Diprera, 28 species, including 9 species of Pulex ; 
of HEMIPTERA, heteroptera 5 species, and of homoptera 8 species, 
in all 124 species, a considerable number of which are, how- 
ever, evidently wrongly determined. As they will be again’ 
referred to in the lists of insects given elsewhere, I need not 
enlarge upon them here. 
In addition to the works already quoted on our local fauna, 
there are numerous papers and notes on it scattered throughout 
periodicals and systematic works, of which .it will be better to- 
give the titles, under the various groups of animals. Before . 
commencing it, I would take this occasion of returning my 
most sincere thanks to the Rev. Dr. Gordon of Birnie for his 
kindness in sending me his copy of the Zoologist, from 1843 
to 1865 inclusive, as well as for other information to the 
utmost of his power. To Mr. Sim, our esteemed friend and 
fellow-worker, I am indebted for a sight of the Daturalist 
from 1851 to 1860—all, I believe, ever published—in which 
occur numerous notes of local interest. 
The following contractions are used in the subjoined list :— 
Zoologist = Z.; ” Naturalist = N.; Scottish Naturalist = Se. N. ; 
Entomologist’s Month y Magazine = E.M.M. ; Reports and Trans- 
actions of the British Association = BAR. ; Edinburgh New 
Philosophical Journal = E.N.P.J. 
The initials within the brackets are those of the writers of the 
papers enumerated, and are as follows :— 
C. W. P.—Mr. C. W. Peach, formerly of Peterhead. 
‘FF. B. W.—Dr. F. Buehanan White, of Perth. 
