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ENTOMOLOGY OF AKBAN. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



121. AMONG the Lepidoptera, or tribe of butterflies and 

 moths, occurring in the Isle of Arran, are several of rather 

 peculiar interest ; and a work treating of the Fauna of Arran 

 would be incomplete without some notice of them. 



COLIAS EDUSA (the clouded yellow butterfly) is a species 

 which is very seldom seen so far north ; but its occurrence 

 near Lamlash was chronicled in the Zoologist for 1848, p. 

 1985. 



EREBIA BLANDINA (the Scotch Argus) is a mountain 

 species of butterfly, which, thoiigh common in many northern 

 localities, is esteemed a prize by all collectors of the plains, 

 when first they meet with it. It is common on many of the 

 hill- sides in Arran. 



EREBIA LIGEA is a species closely allied to BLANDINA, 

 which has been reported to occur in the Isle of Arran ; and 

 Mr. Curtis, the distinguished author of British Entomology, 

 assured me that the late Sir Patrick Walker told him he 

 had himself taken it in the island, in the second half of 

 August. No recent captures of this insect in Britain are 

 known; and the fact of its having ever been caught here 

 being much doubted, the species has ceased to figure in our 

 lists of indigenous species. 



CCENONYMPHA DAVUS is common on boggy places at some 

 altitude above the sea. 



Of the handsome genus of FRITILLARIES three species 



