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DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA OF ST. ANDREWS. 
In my next paper I intend to conduct your readers through the mountain- 
passes to the bay of Islands, through scenery which it is almost impossible to 
describe so as to do justice to its beauty. 
Martin Hall , Nottinghamshire, 
November 30, 1837. 
LIST OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA CAPTURED IN THE NEIGH¬ 
BOURHOOD OF ST. ANDREWS IN 1837. 
With Observations, etc. 
By Henry Buist. 
Having been a constant reader of your valuable and useful magazine, The 
Naturalist , since its commencement, I assure you I have derived great pleasure 
as well as obtained much useful information from the perusal of the contents of 
your monthly numbers as they appear, and always look forward with great 
pleasure to the beginning of each month when The Naturalist arrives, I have 
sent you the following list of Diurnal Lepidoptera taken by me this season in the 
neighbourhood of St. Andrews, with observations on their time of appearance, 
&c., hoping that it may prove interesting to at least a few of your numerous 
readers, as it gives an idea of what Papilios they may expect to find in this 
district. 
The Butterflies enumerated in the following short list were all taken by my¬ 
self this season, none of them at a greater distance than two miles from the city 
of St. Andrews, which is situated on the East coast of Fifeshire, on a small bay 
called St. Andrew’s Bay. The climate here is particularly pure and healthy, 
owing no doubt to its position with regard to the sea and adjacent country. The 
weather, however, is generally cold and disagreeable in spring, on account of the 
North-East winds generally prevailing during the months of April and May, and 
bringing with them cold unpleasant vapours which load the air and check vege¬ 
tation. Epidemic or contagious diseases are hardly ever known here, but the 
climate is thought to be too sharp and penetrating for rheumatic constitutions, or 
those who are threatened with consumptive complaints. The latitude of St. 
Andrews is 56° 19' 33" north, true to a second, and the longitude 2° 50' west 
from Greenwich. The medium temperature of the air at St. Andrews was 
found by the late Dr. Jackson, Professor of Natural Philosophy here, from eight 
years observation, to be 43° 374' of Fahrenheit. A small stream called the 
Kinnes burn skirts the town on the South, on the banks of which stream I have 
