286 ENTOMOLOGY OF ARRAN. 



ARGYNNIS AGLAIA, ADIPPE, and SELENE are rarely met 

 iu the little glens, up the hill-sides; and in early spring 

 THECLA RUBI (the green hair streak) is frequent amongst 

 bramble bushes. 



POLYOMMATUS ARTAXERXES is a species very likely to 

 occur in Arran, though I am not aware that it ever has 

 been found there. 



ANTHROCERA NUBIGENA. The capture near Oban of this 

 species of Sphhix, found also in Ireland, renders it certainly 

 not improbable that it may occur in Arran. Like many of 

 its congeners, it is excessively local, and may occur in some 

 limited spot, only on one hill-side, yet there be in profusion. 

 Among the family of the day-flying moths, the BOMBYCINA, 

 none of those which have been observed in the island are of 

 sufficient importance to deserve special notice. 



Amongst the NOCTUINA, the pretty THYATIRA BATIS 

 (peach-blossom) is common ; CEI^ENA HAWORTHII is tolerably 

 plentiful ; CRYMODES EXULTS has once been taken on the face 

 of stone rocks ; and PLUSIA INTERROGATIONS is rather com- 

 mon than otherwise. 



Amongst the GEOMETRINA which have been noticed here, 

 may be mentioned M.ESIA BELGIARIA, which flies in heathy 

 places ; OPORABIA FILIGRAMMARIA, LARENTIA C.ESIATA, 

 SALICARIA, and the mountain species of the pretty little 

 genus EMMELESIA, viz.: T.SNIATA, ERICETATA, and BLANDIATA, 

 and the pretty insect CARSIA IMBUTATA, of which the Scotch 

 specimens are so much more delicately marked than those 

 from the neighbourhood of Manchester. 



Phibalapteryx lapidata. Hepialus hecta. 



Cidaria russata a peculiar Crambus latistrius. 

 and pretty variety. Habrostola triplasia. 



Of the smaller species of Lepidoptera none of peculiar 

 interest have yet been noticed in Arran; but it must be 

 borne in mind that this portion of its natural treasures has 

 never been thoroughly explored. 



