1897.] 191 



For Somerset and Gloucestershire we have a very full and complete 

 " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the Bristol district," by Mr. Alfred 

 E. Hudd, published in the " Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' 

 Society," 1877— 18S4. It extends to 13U0 species, with plentiful 

 notices of habits, localities and food-plants ; and is drawn up with 

 considerable accuracy and close research. Probably few local lists are 

 more complete than this, since Bristol was for many years a grand 

 nucleus of entomological work, and Mr. Hudd availed himself of the 

 results of many years' keen collecting by well known residents. 



In the case of Gloucestershire a further valuable contribution 

 has been made by Mr. C. Granville Clutterbuck in a MS. list of the 

 Noctuce of the district lying round the city of Gloucester, with notes 

 of their habits. This is, I hope, only an instalment of a more complete 

 list for that district. 



For the county of Wilts 1 find no collected list, and even isolated 

 notices of captures are few, yet the county contains Marlborough, 

 Newbury and Savernake Forest. 



For the county of Berks I find no completed list, but in the 

 " Entomological Magazine," 1834-, is a notice of 253 species taken, 

 mainly at light, at Burghfield, Seading, by the Rev. C. S. Bird, which 

 contains a few useful notes ; and for the poi'tion situated within ten 

 miles of Eeading, Mr. William Holland has furnished a very full and 

 accurate MS. Catalogue of 1085 species, with numerous localities and 

 notes. The ten mile radius, however, includes a small part of Hants 

 and an extensive range of Oxfordshire. 



Beyond this 1 find no Oxfordshire list, except a small Catalogue 

 of 90 species, with useful notes, of those occurring in the vicinity of 

 Aylesbury, published in the '' Zoologist," 1854, by the Eev. Joseph 

 Greene; nor does there appear to be any for the rich county of 

 Buckingham. 



For Hertfordshire a good deal has been done by Mr. J. Hartley 

 Hurrant in the " Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History 

 Society," by his " Contributions to the Knowledge of the Entomological 

 Fauna of Hertfordshii'e," 1S81, in which a large number of notices by 

 other entomologists and from the older works on the subject are added 

 to the results of his own collecting, but unfortunately without bringing 

 all into a consecutive list ; and previously, in 1885, by a " List of 

 Lepidoptera observed in the neighbourhood of Hitchin and Knebworth, 

 Herts," which simply furnishes the names of the species observed. 



Huntingdonshire appears to possess no separate local list, but it 

 is included with Cambridgeshire, and portions of Northamptonshire, 



