7664 Insects. 



("North -East Highlands") of "No. 15" in Mr. H. C. Watson's 

 arrangement of provinces, as given in his recent ' Supplement' to the 

 ' Cybele Britannica,' part first, page 48. Had this list been pub- 

 lished in the ' Zoologist' before Messrs. Boyd and More had drawn 

 up their paper on the geographical distribution of the Diurni (Zool. 

 6018), the addition of Anthocharis Cardaraines, Melitaea Artemis and 

 Thanaos Tages would have been made to the denizens of this, the 

 fifteenth province of Britain. 



The enumeration of the northern Scottish Lepidoptera, given in the 

 late Dr. Macgillivray's work on Braemar, does not unfold the richness 

 of the ground in this section of Entomology, and no other record of a 

 like nature, bearing upon any part of the region between the Gram- 

 pians and Ultima Thule, has yet been published. To make this 

 paper, therefore, as useful as the limits allowed will permit, and an 

 entomological index of that part of Britain which lies north of the 

 Grampians, or of a line drawn from Aberdeen to Fort William, other 

 species, found in the east, west and north of the Province of Moray, 

 are added within [parentheses, together with some extra-provincial 

 localities for a few of the rarer Moray denizens. 



The compiler lays it before the readers of the ' Zoologist' as a con- 

 tinuation of his endeavours to illustrate the Natural History of his 

 native province, and as the result of his own recent observations and 

 of some of his friends in this untrodden district. Finding that the 

 repetition of the names of local discoverers after so many species 

 would occupy too much space, a hearty though general acknowledg- 

 ment is here made to those who have, by their observations and 

 generous contributions, helped to make this List reach its present size, 

 however small it may be compared with others drawn up after a more 

 lengthened study, and in more genial climes. Four terms — viz., 

 common, frequent, occasional and rare — are here used to mark the 

 comparative occurrence of species ; but future observations must of 

 course cause the latter two to be supplanted by the former in many 

 instances. 



The confidence with which most of the species are given arises 

 from the circumstance that specimens from this district passed under 

 the eye of Mr. Logan, whose invaluable instruction is here gratefully 

 recorded. Dr. Lines, of Forres, Mr. Martin, of the Elgin Institution, 

 Mr. James Macdonald, of the Elgin Academy, Mr. William Gordon, 

 formerly Schoolmaster of Advie (now of Birnie), Mr. John Macdonald, 

 of Queen Street, Elgin, and Mr. Thomson, Free-Church Schoolmaster 

 at Cawdor, have kindly transmitted whatever they have met with as 



