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GALASHIELS AND DISTRICT:— A Guide 

 to the existing Fauna. 



TiiROuair the kind help of remanent members of the South 

 of Scotland Entomological and Natural History Society, the 

 following lists of insects collected by them have been placed 

 at the service of the Club, and after revision by Mr William 

 Shaw, Galashiels, are herewith published along with inter- 

 esting local comments, with a view to preserve so valuable 

 a record of the Butterflies, Moths, and Beetles which have 

 been found in the district. In submitting the lists, Mr 

 Shaw pays the following tribute to his associates, for which 

 we gladly find space. "These results cannot be said to be 

 the work of any single member, and it would be invidious 

 to single out the names of individuals to whom credit might 

 be given, for while our fellow-members followed different 

 branches of Natural History, they at the same time remem- 

 bered those of their number who specialised in other 

 directions, and made it a point to secure for them any 

 specimens they might come across. Doubtless more is due 

 to some than to others, but we feel that all are more or 

 less deserving, seeing each assisted the other as much as 

 he could. In this way have been obtained a collection of 

 insects which any such Society might be proud to possess, 

 and what is of far more importance, an extended know- 

 ledge of the beauties and wonders of Nature, so widely 

 distributed on our hills, and in our woods, fields, streams, 

 and gardens." 



