A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



CuRCULlONiDit {continued) 



Attelabus curculionoides, L. IVakerUy 

 Rhynchites cupreus, L. IVakerley 



— xquatus, L. „ 



— sericeus, Herbst. ,, 

 DeporaOs megacephalus, Germ. 



— betulae, L. 

 Apion malvx, F. 



— miniatum, Germ. 



— astragali, Payk. Neighbourhood of 



Northampton (Greville) 



— apricans, Herbst. 



— nigritarse, Kirby 

 Otiorrhynchus atroapterus, De G. 



— sulcatus, F. 



— ovatus, L. 

 Strophosomus coryli, F. 

 Barypeithes sulcifrons, Boh. 

 Polydrusus micans, F. 



— tereticollis, De G. 



— pterygomalis, Boh. 

 Phyllobius oblongus, L. 



— calcaratus, F. 



— urtica;, De G. 



— pyri, L. 



CuRCULiONiD^ {continued) 

 Phyllobius argentatus, L. 



— pomonae, Ol. 



— viridixris, Laich. 

 Sitones regensteinensis, Herst. 



— flavescens, Marsh 



— iineatus, L. 



— tibialis, Herbst. 



— sulcifrons, Thun. 

 Hypera nigrirostris, F. 

 Curculio abietis, L. 

 Orchestes alni, L. 

 Dorytomus vorax, F. 



— maculatus. Marsh 

 Tanysphyrus lemnae, F. 

 Cionus tuberculosus, Scop. 



— hortulanus. Marsh 

 Cryptorrhynchus lapathi, L. 

 Coeliodes rubicundus, Herbst. 

 Balaninus turbatus, Gyll. 



— salicivorus, Payk. 



ScOLYTIDii: 



Hylesinus crenatus, F. IVakerley 



— fraxini, Panz. „ 

 Trypodendron domesticum, L. IVakerley 



LEPIDOPTERA 



{Butterflies and Moths) 



To collectors of the Lepidoptera Northamptonshire, notwithstand- 

 ing its insular position and the absence of any extent of moorland and 

 fen, or mountain ranges, is of considerable interest, and its extensive 

 woodlands contain certain species ' which are not met with elsewhere 

 in the United Kingdom except in a few localities in two or three 

 neighbouring counties. 



Forty or fifty years ago the county was well worked for the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera (the Butterflies and large Moths) by the Ven. Archdeacon 

 Bree, the Rev. Hamlet Clark, the Rev. W. Whall, Mr. Sturgess and 

 the late Mr. Frederick Bond ; and during the last thirty-five years 

 many species belonging to the same groups have been collected and 

 recorded by the writer, by Mr. W. Hull, Mr. H. F. Tomalin, Mr. 

 T. H. Briggs, Mr. F. Bouskell, Mr. G. Claridge Druce, Mr. W. J. 

 Kaye, the Hon. Charles Rothschild, Mr. Eustace Wallis, and especially 

 by Captain J. A. W. Vipan. 



The Rhopalocera (Butterflies) are well represented,* though three 

 local species ' have been apparently extinct in the county for some years. 



• e.g. the Black Hairstreak {Thecla prunO) and the Chequered Skipper {Heiperia paniscus). 



* A complete list will be found at pages 09. It is not thought necessary to enumerate in the 

 introductory observations all the common species which occur in every county. Fifty-three species have 

 occurred in the county, or three more than in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. — H. G. 



' The Black-veined White {Pierit cratagi), the Mazarine Blue {Lycana acis), and the Large Blue 

 (I. arion). The last named still occurs not uncommonly in a few localities in Gloucestershire, Devon 

 and Cornwall. — H. G. 



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