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Of trees we can boast very few ; the ash alone seems indigenous here ; 

 the plantations, chiefly of larch and Scotch fir, which clothe the glen 

 sides here and there are all of recent date. The rank herbage and 

 glowing masses of honied flowers that overrun the sunny banks and 

 wood-glades of the mainland, especially in the South, are wanting 

 here. The primrose in spring, the foxglove in summer, the heather 

 in autumn, and the bonnie golden gorse all the year round, are the 

 only flowers sufficiently massed to make much of a show. Hedges are 

 supplanted by banks, of which more elsewhere. It is evident then 

 that the Hydradephaga, Xylophagi, and those families of Coleoptera 

 which especially affect the society of " lush floral beauties," the Longi- 

 cornes for example, will be poorly represented in such a district, and 

 the same local conditions are of course even more unfavourable to 

 Lepidopterous life than to Coleopterous. 



The Macro-Lepidoptera hitherto observed here amount to no more 

 than 146 species, thus distributed : — 



Diurni ... 12 

 Nocturni (Guen.) . .15 

 Geometrae . . 42 



Pseudo-Bombyces (Guen.) 2 



Noctuae 



Deltoides (Latr.) 



Pyralides 



Crambites 



53 

 . 2 

 9 



. 11 



Many common and widely distributed species appear to be entirely 

 absent. For this and other reasons, at which I have already hinted, 

 a complete catalogue of our Entomological Fauna would be very inte- 

 resting were it attainable. In the absence of this, owing to the want 

 of more complete observation, we must be content with enumerating 

 the few species that are in any degree noteworthy, distinguishing those 

 that occur in some plenty with an asterisk, and adding a note where 

 it may seem desirable. 



Diurni. Satyrus Semele.* 



Nocturni. Macroglossa Stellatarum, Acherontia Atropos, Setina 

 irrorella, Nudaria mundana,* Arctia fuliginosa,* Bombyx Rubi.* 



Geometry. Boarmia cinctaria, Pseudoterpna cytisaria,* Fidonia 

 atomaria,* Gnophos obscurata,* Larentia csesiata, L. salicata, Emme- 

 lesia albulata,* Eupithecia subfulvata [Haw.), E. nanata, E. satyrata, 

 E. absinthiata,* E. pumilata,* Thera firmata, Cidaria miata, C. popu- 

 lata, Eubolia mensuraria,* E. palumbaria,* Anaitis plagiata.* 



Noctuce. Leucania conigera,* Hydrsecia nictitans, H. micacea,* 

 Axylia putris, Luperina testacea,* Mamestra furva, Miana literosa,* 

 Agrotis valligera, A. nigricans, A. corticea,* A. porphyrea,* Noctua 

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