268 ' December, 



LOCAL LISTS OF BRITISFI LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY CHAS. G. BAHRKTI, F.E S. 

 {Con chtded from page 198). 



By tbe ]<indiies3 of friends I am enabled somewLat to extend tbis 

 catalogue of local lists. 



In the London district a list of nearly 200 species of Macro- 

 Lepidoptera of Highgate, Finchley, and Muswell Hill, with localities 

 and interesting notes, compiled by Master (now Dr.) F. A. Dixey, 

 was published in 1S74 by C. C. Harris, High Street, Highgate, and 

 was supplemented two or three years later by further species and 

 information in the " Cholmoleian," by a schoolfellow. Dr. Dixey has 

 favoured me with a sight of these; they are very carefully and 

 accurately drawn up. 



For Sussex, a " Natural History of Brighton," by Mrs. Merrifield, 

 mother of one of the present Secretaries of the Entomological Society 

 of London, published, in 1860, by \V. Pearce, Brighton, contains — ■ 

 along with chapters on the geology of the district, its Crustacea, 

 marine and freshwater Mollusca, fishes, birds, insects, and plants, with 

 local lists — a catalogue of over 1000 species of Lepidoptera, including 

 TineidcE, drawn up with great care by Messrs. H. Cooke, J. N. Winter, 

 and others. The description of locality in which each species is found 

 is indicated, and the list seems to be very complete, so far as our 

 native species were then worked out. 



Dorset. Mr. C. W. Dale requests me to " contradict an error " 

 earlier in this paper {ante, p. 189) as to the publishing of the first 

 edition of the "'Lepidoptera of Dorsetshire." He says: "The 

 nominal publisher, as in the second edition, was Henry Ling, Dor- 

 chester. Both editions were actually brought out entirely at my own 

 expense." Mr. Dale's public spirit is to be commended, as he informs 

 me that their publication resulted in a considerable pecuniary loss ; 

 one learns from his experience rather to send the local list, when com- 

 pleted and made interesting by notes upon the species, to a magazine 

 for publication I He has most kindly furnished me with a copy of 

 the first edition, which I find to contain a catalogue of 1300 species 

 of JLepidoptera, with localities and some notes ; and lists of the rarer 

 species in other Orders found in the county, compiled by himself. 

 He also published in 1H7S, at his own expense, a " History of Glan- 

 villes Wootton," Dorset, in which a catalogue is furnished of 910 

 species of Lepidoptera, all of course included in his later county list. 



In the same county a " List of Portland Lepidoptera" by Mr. N. 



