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ENTOMOLOGY OF ARRAN 



LEPIDOPTEEA. 



118. 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 in- 

 complete 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. 



EBEBIA BLANDINA (the Scotch Argus) is a mountain species of 

 butterfly, which, though 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. 



EBEBIA 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 DA VIES is common on boggy places at some 

 altitude above the sea. 



Of the handsome genus of FBITILLABIES three species ABGYNNIS 

 AGLAIA, ADIPPE, and SELENE are by no means uncommon in the 

 little glens, up the hill-sides, and in early spring THECLA RUBI (the 

 green hair streak) is frequent amongst bramble bushes. 



POLYOMMATTTS AflTAXEBXES is a species very likely to occur in 

 Arran, though I am not aware that it ever has been found there. 



ANTHBOCEBA MINOS. The recent capture near Oban of this 

 species of Sphinx, found three years ago in Ireland, renders it certainly 

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

 geners, 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. 



