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new or interesting in this or the other departments of provincial 

 Natural History. The contributions of Mr. Grant, late of the Advie 

 Post-OfEce (now in Australia), and of Mr. Thomas Bliss, of Darna- 

 way, made in these rich localities of the North, have yielded many of 

 the rarer species of this List; and it is owing to the persevering 

 researches of Mr. W. C. Gellie, Cabinet-maker in Elgin, that Argyn- 

 nis Selene, Lithosia complana and several Geometrae and Nocluae 

 have been detected in the province. Mr. Scott's list in the second 

 volume of the 'Entomologist's Annual' is referred to by the word 

 " Fochabers," and the species from Skye are noted either from speci- 

 mens or a list furnished by Mr. J. Wingate, who has made many 

 excellent discoveries in that island, seemingly a good locality, though 

 little known to entomologists. 



Pieris Brassicfe, P. Rapae and P. Napi. All common. 



Anthocharis Cardamines. Frequent From Strathspey to the 

 shores of the Firth ; plentiful in the valleys of the upper districts, as 

 Dallas, &c. 



Argynnis Aglaia. Occasional. Strathspey ; Darnaway ; banks of 

 the Findhorn. (Abundant in the north-western parts of Sutherland, 

 Mr. John Macdonald). 



A. Euphrosyne. Common. 



A.Selene. Occasional. Knock of Alves, Mr. W^. G^e/^ie; Cawdor, 

 Mr. Thomson. 



Melitsea Artemis. Rare. Near Forres, Dr. limes. 



Vanessa Urticae. Common. 



V. lo. Rare. South College garden, Elgin, 1857, Mr. John 

 Macdotiald. 



V. Atalanta. Frequent. Reaching as far inland as Strathspey ; 

 abundant, in the more cultivated districts, in 1857. 



(V. Cardui. Found in Buchan, Rev. Mr. Whyte. Both Mr. John 

 Macdonald and Mr. Thomson feel pretty confident that they have 

 seen it ; the former in 1859, between Newton and Burghead ; the 

 latter near Elgin, in 1860). 



Erebia blandina. Frequent in the western parts of the province. 

 The Cluny hills, at Forres, is the most easterly station where it has 

 been as yet detected. 



Satyrus Semele. Frequent Hill of Birnie ; Covesea, &c. 



S. Janira. Common. 



(S. Hyperanthus has been met with in the district of Buchan, Aber- 

 deenshire, Rev. J. Whyte, and in Skye, Mr. Wingate). 



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