THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XVIIL] JULY, 1885. [No. 266. 



THE LEPIDOPTERA OF BURTON-ON-TRENT AND 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



Among the various Natural-History Societies which exist 

 throughout the country only a few are strong in entomologists. 

 This, however, is the case with the Burton-on- Trent Natural- 

 History and Archaeological Society ; and during the past winter 

 the memhers of its entomological section have occupied them- 

 selves in compiling a new list of the Lepidoptera of that 

 neighbourhood, which, if it does nothing else, will prove that the 

 midhmd counties are not quite such a barren hunting-ground as 

 some would have us believe. The members have had the 

 advantage of using two old lists, — one by that renowned 

 entomologist, Mr. Edwin Brown, and contained in Sir O. 

 Mosley's ' History of Tutbury ' ; the otlier by Mr. W. Garneys, 

 and embodied in his work, ' The Fauna and Flora of Kepton.' 

 To these are added the observations of about a dozen living 

 collectors, each contribution being distinguished by the initials 

 of its finder's name. The district covered is rather a wide one, 

 extending from fifteen to twenty miles round Burton in every 

 direction, and has not been worked, so far as we are aware, by 

 any other Society. It includes two famous localities, — Cannock 

 Chase, the original British habitat of Lasiocampa ilicifolia ; and 

 Chartley Park, the southernmost limit of Coenonympha typhon ; 

 the river Trent passing through the centre. The 'Entomologist ' 

 List has been followed throughout. 



The observers, whose initials appear in our local list, are as 

 follows : — E. Brown, W. Garneys, J. T. Harris, G. Baker, 



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