Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xlv. (1901), No. \%. 



XII. The Macro-Lepidoptera of Sherwood Forest. 

 By J. Ray Hardy. 



(Communicated by W. E. Hoyle, Af.A., F.R.S.E.) 

 Received and read March igth, igoi. 



The following list of Macro-Lepidoptera (made out to 

 the end of the Geometrina) does not profess to be any- 

 thing like a complete summary of the species to be 

 found in Sherwood Forest. It only contains my own 

 captures, but is, nevertheless, a fairly satisfactory record 

 of the results of many journeys from Manchester, and 

 many days of keen and systematic collecting in each year 

 from March, 1879, up to September, 1900. As the species 

 have been collected they have all been placed in the 

 British cabinet at the Manchester Museum, Owens 

 College. 



The district worked forms a triangle between Worksop, 

 Edwinstowe, and Checkerhouse, and I invariably made 

 Edwinstowe my headquarters. The fine old timber of 

 the district, with its abundant cover, makes it an ideal 

 collecting ground, and, as might be expected, some rare 

 and local forms occur, e.g., Apatura iris and Triphcsna 

 subsequa. 



Rhopalocera. 



Pieris brassiccB, L. Gonopteryx rJiavini, L. 



Pieris rapes, L. A rgynnis papJiia, L. 



Pieris napi, L. Argynnis euphrosyne, L. 



AntJiocharis cardamines, L. Vanessa atalanta, L. 



Colias edusa, Fb. Vanessa io, L. 



September roth, igoi. 



