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Hoplophora contractUh, Clap., was in evidence, but not numerous. 

 Altogether there were 122 distinct species ; and I feel quite sure 

 that if the galls had been picked from various localities this list 

 might have been enormously extended. I can only hope that 

 others may perhaps be induced by this brief note to follow up 

 this interesting study of the inhabitants of kollari galls, which 

 time will not permit me to do as I could wish. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF 

 DERBYSHIRE. 



By Feed. W. G. Payne. 



It appears to me that a fitting preface to a list of Derby- 

 shire Macro-Lepidoptera is to offer some brief observations upon 

 the salient geological features of the district. The shire pos- 

 sesses the distinction of a central English situation. It has a 

 surface of peak and plain in which the alpine predominates over 

 the flat land, for the southern termination of the Pennine chain 

 embraces more than half the area. Kinderscout (2000 ft.), rising 

 from an elevated plateau, dominates other eminences scarcely 

 inferior, and the hills (chiefly carboniferous limestone) gradually 

 decline in height, until the southern plain is reached, the latter 

 being bordered on the south by the river Trent. The higher hill 

 ranges are divided by widely sweeping valleys, the lesser and 

 well-wooded eminences being cloven by rocky ravines. The water- 

 shed is almost solely southward, the Dove running down the west 

 boundary, the Erewash over the coalfield on the east border, and 

 the Derwent and its tributary the Wye flowing centrally, the 

 whole, through the Keuper area, discharging into the Trent. On 

 the north-west side of the " divide," however, flows the Goyt. 

 In the north-east are beds of lower red sandstone. 



My warmest thanks are due to the following ladies and 

 gentlemen who have placed their lists at my disposal, and have 

 otherwise assisted me : — Miss M. Kimber ; Miss E. M. Alderson, 

 who has supplied me with records from the north ; Rev. G. A. 

 Smallwood ; Mr. Hooke, who has forwarded his notes from the 

 Eckington and Staveley district ; Rev. R. H. Fuller, who has 

 sent a list of species met with in the Bakewell district ; and Rev. 

 C. F. Thornewill, who has supplied me with notes and observa- 

 tions chiefly from the vicinity of Bakewell. I have also to 

 acknowledge that I have quoted freely from the * List of the 

 Lepidoptera of Burton-on-Trent and Neighbourhood,' published 

 under the auspices of the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and 

 Archfieological Society, and that several of the localities for the 

 Rhopalocera are taken from Newman's ' Natural History of 



