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Literary and Philosophical Society. It contains much information as 

 to localities, but is unfortunately marred by the inclusion of a number 

 of species obviously recorded in error, and by an unusual number of 

 printer's blunders. 



For North Staffordshire, the Eev. T. W. Daltry has obliged mo 

 with a MS. list of the Bovibt/ces, Noctuce, and Geomeirce of that 

 district, comprising 360 species — a very useful list, Avith localities, and 

 much information. 



For Derbyshire, there is in the " Entomologist," 1895, a list of 

 440 species of Macro-Lepidoptera, by Mv. F. AV. G. Payne, but a large 

 portion of the information therein coincides with that contained in 

 the Burton-on-Trent list already noticed. 



The only list for Lincolnshire which has come under my notice 

 is that in the " Entomologist," 1894, by Mr. W. D. Carr ; it includes 

 only the butterflies, Sphinges, Bomhijces, and Noctuce, amounting to 

 213 species, but seems pretty accurate, and is enriched with notes on 

 the habits of many of the species. 



The " Lepidopterous fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire," by Dr. 

 John W. Ellis, published originally in the " Naturalist," but brought 

 out as a neat volume in 189U, is the principal and by far the best 

 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of these two counties. It combines 

 with more modern information the details of one or two small local 

 lists to which I have not access, and furnishes localities, and in some 

 cases other useful information regarding 1350 species, including the 

 TineidcB. Care is also taken to show details for each county separately, 

 and a short account of the geological formation of the district is given 

 in the introduction. Included in it is doubtless much of the informa- 

 tion furnished in 1855 in a " List of the Lepidopterous Insects of the 

 district around Liverpool," by Mr. C. S. Gregson, published in the 

 "Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historical Society." 



Yorkshire is also represented by a very neat volume, the " List 

 of Yorkshire Lepidoptera,'' by Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., published in 

 the " Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union," 1883. It 

 records 1340 species, including Tineidce, and along with numerous and 

 widespread localities in that great county, furnishes great numbers of 

 references and much other useful information. I do not know any 

 local lists more complete, or more neatly and accurately got up than 

 this, and that for Lancashire and Cheshire. The only other Yorkshire 

 list known to me is that of 460 species, compiled by Mr. Robert Cook, 

 and published in the "Entomologist," 1842. This includes many 

 Micro- Lepidoptera, but gives only their names. 



