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By the Rev. Francis C. R. Jourdain, M.A. 



HE Lepidoptera form such an attractive order for 

 entomologists that it is somewhat sm^prising to find 

 that up to the present time only one list of the 

 Butterflies and Moths of the county has been pub- 

 lished, and even this did not appear till 1895. On the other 

 hand, it must be confessed that while a more than respectable 

 list of moths can easily be compiled, the number of butterflies 

 which are regularly to be found within our limits is exceedingly 

 small. In fact, the greater part of the forty species included 

 in the present list can only be regarded as rare or accidental 

 visitors, and only about fifteen species can be considered really 

 common anywhere. 



Unproductive though it is in Rhopalocera, Derbyshire has 

 been the collecting ground of several well-known workers. The 

 Rev. Joseph Greene was Vicar of Doveridge (1858-68), and 

 the late Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, who communicated many 

 of the Derbyshire records to Newman's book, frequently 

 collected in the Breadsall district. 



But perhai)S the most productive i)art of the county and the 

 most thoroughly worked, is the Trent Valley and the district 

 between it and the Leicestershire border. Here, since the days 

 of Mr. Edwin Brown and Mr. W. Garneys, quite a long list 

 might be comjjiled of entomologists who have helped in the 

 systematic study of the Lepidoptera of this district. Amongst 

 the best-known names we may mention Mr. P. B. IVtason, 

 Mr. J. T. Harris, and the Rev. C. F. Thornewill. Under the 



