INSECTS 



SCOLYTID/E SCOLYTID^E (continued) 



Scolytus destructor, Ol. Hylesinus vittatus, F. Chesham 



pruni, Ratz Myelophilus piniperda, L. 



rugulosus, Ratz Cissophagus hederas, Schmidt. Chesham 



multistriatus, Marsh. Phlosophthorus rhododactylus, Marsh. 

 Hylastes ater, Payk. Cryphalus fagi, F. Chesham 



opacus, Er. Xylocleptes bispinus, Duft. 



palliatus, Gyll. Dryocaetes villosus, F. 



Hylesinus crenatus, F. Trypodendron domesticum, L. Drayton 



oleiperda, F. Beauchamp 



fraxini, Panz. Xyleborus saxeseni, Ratz. Chesham 



LEPIDOPTERA 



From the large proportion of chalk and other calcareous admixtures 

 in its soil this county appears to be somewhat rich in species of Lepi- 

 doptera ; indeed it is, so far as the British Isles are concerned, the especial 

 home of some most delicate and interesting species such as Lophopteryx 

 cucullina and Ptilophora plumigera and is one of the only two known 

 localities for Glupbisia crenata. 



There are records of captures, in this order, in the county, for more 

 than half a century past ; indeed at that date Black Park bore an enviable 

 notoriety for the rare and interesting species there captured by the late 

 Mr. Samuel Stevens and his friends. A little more recently the Rev. 

 Joseph Greene, well known by his work upon ' Pupa digging,' spent some 

 time at Halton, and the late Rev. Henry Harpur Crewe at Drayton 

 Beauchamp and at Claydon ; and both thoroughly investigated and 

 recorded the Macro-Lepidoptera of those districts. The Rev. Bernard 

 Smith has spent the later half of a long life at Great Marlow, and has 

 published the results of his many years of collecting and rearing larva? ; 

 and Mr. W. Slade supplied the results of his collecting at and around 

 Buckingham while resident there about 186972. More recently 

 excellent work has been done at Chesham by Dr. Churchill, and at 

 Chalfont St. Peter by the Rev. J. Seymour St. John, while the results 

 of a visit to Leckhampstead and the borders of Whittlebury Forest by 

 the Rev. C. F. Thornewill, and of one to Amersham and Wendover by 

 Mr. H. J. Turner, and some notes from other parts of the county by 

 Mr. A. J. Spiller and others in the Entomological magazines have been 

 found very useful. Mr. Turner's records have the advantage of including 

 Micro-Lepidoptera ; and in this respect a series of notices, more especially 

 of Tortrices, by Mr. Richard South, the editor of the Entomologist^ have 

 been of especial value. 



It is a source of considerable regret to me that the records of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera are so few, and I cannot but think that when these are fully 

 worked up the county list will be very largely extended. 



RHOPALOCERA 



Pieris brassicae, Linn., and P. rapje, Linn. Pieris napi, Linn. (Green-veined White butter- 

 Cabbage butterflies). Everywhere, fly). Common in country districts among 

 but most plentiful in gardens and the watercress and other cresses 

 outskirts of towns ; destructive to vege- Anthocharis cardamines, Linn. (Orange Tip 

 tables butterfly). Generally common 



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