Manchester Memoirs, Vol. Iviii. (1914), No. 13. 



XIII. Faunal Survey of Rostherne. 



III. Preliminary List of Lepidoptera found round 

 the Mere. 



By A. W. Boyd, M.A., F.E.S. 



( Read Ma) cli 24th, igi4. Received fo7- publication Apiil jth. 1^14.) 



The following list of Lepidoptera is the result ot 

 more or less casual collecting by day during the last 

 three years round Rostherne Mere, which I have visited 

 fairly often, principall)- to look for birds. 



As I did not wish to disturb the game in the coverts, 

 I only collected by night on two occasions, once visiting 

 the sallows in spring and once at midsummer, when sugar 

 was tried ; consequently the list of Noctuze is a singularly 

 poor one, and I have no record of many species which 

 are certain to be abundant ; comparatively more atten- 

 tion has therefore been paid to the Microlepidoptera. 

 Little collecting seems to have been done at Rostherne 

 before ; three records in Day's Lepidoptera of Cheshire 

 are all that I can discover, though some of the old records 

 for Bowdon, made b}- IVlr. R. S. Edleston, may possibly 

 refer to Rostherne. 



In all I can record 148 species, but hope to add many 

 during the coming season. 



The Gale Bog is the best collecting ground, and a big 

 willow-bed at the other end of the mere contains some 

 species in plenty ; the game coverts contain remarkably 



It is interesting to note the presence of several species 

 which, in Lancashire and Cheshire, are usually found on 

 the "mosses" or in similar country, such as Acronycta 



Jioie igfh, igi4. 



