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ON THE 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTERFLIES 

 IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



BY T. BOYD AND A. G. MORE. 

 (ZooL. XVI.) 



EDITED FOR THIS MEMOIR 



BY W. F. KIR BY, F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. 



NOTE BY W. F. KIRBY. 



IN editing the present paper I have made no alterations or additions 

 beyond inserting, as foot-notes, all the remarks added by Mr. More in 

 pencil in his own interleaved copy. Three foot-notes which formed part 

 of the original paper, have of course been included, and one or two 

 slight memorandums of my own, which appeared necessary, have also 

 been added. 



The essay by Messrs. Boyd and More was the first serious attempt 

 to trace out the distribution of Lepidoptera in the British Islands. My 

 attention was drawn to it by an article by Mr. H. T. Stainton, published 

 in the "Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer" for Oct. 8, 1859 (vol.vii., 

 pp. 9, 10), and I supplemented it by a paper on the "Geographical 

 Distribution of Sphingina in Great Britain and Ireland" (" Ent. W. 

 Int.," vol. vii., pp. 67-70, no, in), which I regard as my first entomo- 

 logical publication of any importance. This led to a correspondence 

 between Mr. More aud myself, and to a proposal to work out the 

 subject more fully; but as we found that it attracted little general 

 interest, and that it would be difficult to get the paper published, the 

 matter dropped. It was, however, taken up by Mr. Jenner Fust, who 

 published a series of tables of Distribution of British Macro- Lepidoptera, 

 in 1868, in the " Transactions of the Entomological Society of London," 

 series iii., vol. iv. ; and Dr. F. Buchanan White adopted a similar 

 system in drawing up his lists of the Macro-Lepidoptera of Scotland in 

 the " Scottish Naturalist," vols. i.-v. (1871-1879). 



