LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. I49 





PART 1. 



BY ALFRED E. HUDD, M.E.S. 



Head before the Entomological Section. 



THIS contribution towards the Natural History of the Bristol 

 District so long projected by our Society, was commenced 

 more than ten years since, by Mr. Harding and myself. Our 

 original intention was to have restricted the list to recording only 

 those species of Lepidoptera which we had ourselves met with, or 

 knew to have been captured, within a nine mile radius of Bristol : 

 but after making considerable progress with this list it was dis- 

 continued, and has remained in an incomplete state ever since. 



In the catalogue of which the first portion is now published, I 

 have considerably enlarged the area of my district, which now 

 includes the whole of the " Bristol Coalfield " as given in 

 Mr. Sander's well known map. 



The neighbourhood of Bristol is undoubtedly very rich in the 

 number of species of Lepidoptera, as a glance at the list will show ; 



