1^0 LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 



but very many of the species recorded have only been met with 

 once or twice, and hardly any of the '^''good things" are to be 

 found in abundance, so that collecting, even in our most 

 successful hunting grounds, is generally most disappointing to 

 f'ntomologists used to some other parts of England. I postpone 

 further remarks on this subject till the conclusion of my catalogue. 



I have received considerable assistance in my work from most of 

 the entomologists resident in the district, to all of whom I beg here 

 to offer my warmest thanks. In many cases I have myself seen 

 the specimens of the rare insects recorded from the neighbourhood, 

 and have excluded a few species of the claims of which I did not 

 feel quite satisfied. As my friend Mr. C. G. Barrett says, in his 

 excellent ''List of Norfolk Lepidoptera," (which I have taken as 

 my model), ''it is better to exclude a few species than to risk 

 including any which do not belong to the district!!'' I have 

 adopted his plan of giving doubtful species, and also localities just 

 beyond my limits, in brackets [ ], when I thought remarks about 

 them might be of interest. 



Of the Bristol Entomologists to whom I am indebted, I must 

 first mention the name of our Honorary Secretary, Mr. George 

 Harding, without whose assistance I should never have undertaken 

 the work : his information has been most valuable and extensive. 

 I have also to thank Messrs. S. Barton, I. W. Clarke, R. Ficklin, 

 W. H. Grigg, E. Spencer, Pease, P. H. Vaughan, the Revs. J. 

 Greene and G. W. Braikenridge, and others, for records of the 

 capture of rare or interesting species near Bristol. Mr. J. G. Ross 

 has kindly sent me a list of captures near Bath, and Dr. H. J. 

 Livett of species found at and near Wells. To Mr. V. R. Perkins 

 I am indebted for a list of species taken by himself in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Wotton-under-Edge, during about thirty years 

 residence there ; and also to the Rev. W. Farren White, and Mr. M. 

 G. Musgrave, for interesting captures in the Stroud district. 

 Though Stroud itself is rather beyond my limits, part of the 

 immediate neighbourhood is included in my district. 



