A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



did little if any local work. In 1867 the Rugby School Natural History 

 Society commenced a series of annual reports, one of the features of 

 which was a list of the Lepidoptera observed by the boys in and around 

 Rugby during each year. This has been continued to date, and in 

 recent years a few other orders have been dealt with, the Rev. F. D. 

 Morice, who was resident at one time, contributing a list of Aculeate 

 and other Hymenoptera. In my list of Lepidoptera these will be found 

 frequently quoted, though I have done so with considerable hesitation, 

 as after all they are for the most part only schoolboy records. The 

 only other local publication dealing with Warwickshire entomology 

 with which I am acquainted besides notes in the magazines is a short 

 popular account of local Lepidoptera contributed by Mr. F. Enock to 

 the Saturday Half-Holiday Guide, though several very excellent local lists 

 have been published by neighbours at Burton-on-Trent, Leicester, etc., 

 who however never passed our borders. In 1888 the Birmingham 

 Entomological Society was founded, and it is largely owing to the work 

 of its members that even this incomplete account of the local insects 

 has been rendered possible. The society has never issued any publica- 

 tions, but the reports of their meetings have appeared regularly in the 

 pages of the 'Entomologist and Entomologist's Monthly Magazine through the 

 courtesy of their respective editors, and many of the records given 

 below have been already mentioned in those reports. I have not how- 

 ever referred to these reports, as in every case I have had the records 

 at first hand myself. The members of this society being chiefly residents 

 of Birmingham or its neighbourhood, most of their records are from 

 the few favourite collecting grounds in the immediate vicinity of that 

 city ; lists have however also been kindly supplied by a few scattered 

 entomologists residing in other and remoter parts of the county 

 beyond a radius of ten or twelve miles from Birmingham. 



In conclusion I have to thank the many kind friends who have as- 

 sisted me and made this list possible, and must point out that any merits 

 which it may perchance possess are entirely owing to their kind assist- 

 ance. To Messrs. R. C. Bradley, H. Willoughby Ellis, and A. H. 

 Martineau in particular my thanks are due for taking the responsibility 

 of entire sections and for much assistance besides; to Messrs. P. W. 

 Abbott, Austen, C. Baker, Dr. P. P. Baly, Revs. J. H. Bloom, W. Bree, 

 Messrs. W. Kiss, L. C. Keighley-Peach, N. V. Sidgwick, W. C. E. 

 Wheeler, G. W. Wynn and many others I am indebted for lists and 

 much of the information quoted ; to Messrs. C. E. M. Hawkesworth, 

 G. H. Verrall and others for help of various kinds; and to Mr. Charles G. 

 Barrett my thanks are specially due for much help and kind advice. 

 Without his assistance in checking many of the records, in identifying 

 many doubtful species, and in many other ways, the list of the Lepi- 

 doptera would have been of very small value, and any credit it deserves 

 is due entirely to him. 



