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A " Catalogue o£ the Lepidoptera of jS'orthumberland and Dur- 

 ham " was published in 1858, by Mr. George Wailes ; but it only- 

 extended to the butterflies and Spliingidw, of which he recorded 53 

 species, furnishing references to many of the older authors, and 

 extremely copious notes. That it should never have been extended to 

 other groups has always been a ground for regret. Now I am glad 

 to find that Mr. J. E. Eobson is drawing up a complete Catalogue, 

 which, in his hands, is certain to prove of great value. For present 

 use he has obliged me with the portion of it which refers to the 

 Noctucd, with promise of further help in the future. 



For Westmoreland I find no collected list. 



In Cumberland Mr. G. B. Routledge has furnished a MS. list 

 of 400 species observed within a few miles of Carlisle ; and I have 

 had the opportunity of noting down particulars of a large collection 

 made in the same county by Mr. G. Dawson. There is also in the 

 " Entomologists' Record," vol. vi, a list of nearly 400 species, found 

 near Keswick by Mr. H. A. Beadle, which seems to be carefully 

 drawn up. 



The poverty of records in Wales is most extraordinary. For 

 thirty or forty years past the Liverpool entomologists (at least) have 

 been assiduously working in North Wales, and no collected record of 

 their work, so far as I know, exists ! In South Wales there are in 

 this Magazine and elsewhere short lists of captures by Sir J. T. D. 

 Llewelyn, Capt. Robertson, Mr. Holland, and others, but I know of 

 nothing aspiring to be called a Catalogue, unless I claim that title for 

 my own meagre MS. list of 750 species taken in South Pembrokeshire, 

 probably the poorest entomological district in the Principality. 



In Scotland the state of things is very different. In the 

 "Naturalist," 1851-2, is a list of about 380 species found in the 

 West of Scotland, with copious notes, by Mr. John Gray, which 

 is carefully worked out, and, with the exception of one or two evi- 

 dent errors, is I think quite reliable ; and still earlier, in the "Annals 

 and Magazine of Nat. Hist., 1839, in the "Fauna of Twizell," by Mr. 

 P. J. Selby, is a list of 360 species taken in Berwickshire. In 1871, 

 the late Dr. F. Buchanan White brought out " Fauna Perthensis : 

 Part i, Lepidoptera,''' published by the " Perthshire Society of Natural 

 Science," containing a list of 550 species, including Pyralides, Cram- 

 bites, and a few Tortrices : a valuable list of the species found in that 

 richest of Scottish counties — Perthshire — very reliable, and enriched 

 with much useful information. 



Immediately after this, 1872 to 1879, he brought out in the 



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