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thought it worth while to give all those most likely to be correct in 

 order to give a better idea of distribution inside the county. Even for 

 this purpose the lists are rather unsatisfactory, as unfortunately exact 

 localities are not always given, and Rugby may mean some place 10 

 miles away, perhaps not even in Warwickshire, as Rugby is so near the 

 border. Several of the contributors to the reports were masters and 

 others whose records are much more reliable, such as the Rev. A. H. 

 Wratislaw, Messrs. J. M. Furness, A. and N. V. Sidgwick, and I have 

 usually quoted their names in addition. Mr. F. Enock's Lists in Pro- 

 ceedings of Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society referred 

 to in the general introduction are quoted as ' F. Enock, List,' 1869 or 

 1870 ; and the brief popular account he gave in the Saturday Half- 

 Holiday Guide as F. Enock, Saturday Guide. It should be pointed out 

 that even though they may have been accurate, some of the records 

 of Messrs. F. Enock and W. G. Blatch in these older publications were 

 correct only for the time when they were written, and the insects referred 

 to cannot always be found still in the same places. Of the other 

 authorities most of them explain themselves. I have had opportunities 

 of examining Messrs. R. C. Bradley 's and H. W. Ellis' collections and 

 have had lists supplied to me by Messrs. C. Baker, W. Kiss, W. C. E. 

 Wheeler and N. V. Sidgwick, Dr. P. P. Baly and Rev. W. Bree, and all 

 their records are taken from those lists. Rev. J. H. Bloom collected 

 information specially for me for purposes of this work, and sent to me 

 the records of Mr. Austen and Mr. L. C. Keighley-Peach. I have had 

 no opportunity of seeing any of the specimens recorded by them. 

 Most of the remainder of the records have been given either personally 

 or have been obtained through specimens shown at meetings of the Bir- 

 mingham Entomological Society, and have been gradually accumulated, 

 a few only having been obtained, after much search, from the magazines, 

 etc. The list will be found a poor one, especially in the smaller and 

 more obscure groups, but this is not surprising seeing that the county 

 has never had a collector who has given his undivided attention to the 

 whole of the Lepidoptera. Mr. Blatch was primarily a coleopterist and 

 Mr. R. C. Bradley has given most of his time to Diptera and Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera, and few of the others have ever studied any but the 

 Macro-Lepidoptera. I myself am not a lepidopterist, but have given 

 most of my time to a few groups of the Diptera. Some years ago 

 however I gave a little attention to the Lepidoptera, when like too many 

 others I took little notice of the ' Micros,' of which I know very little, so 

 that that part of the following list is chiefly compilation. Where no 

 authority is quoted for a record, I am myself responsible. 



The chief places quoted are situated, roughly speaking, as follows : 

 Sutton on the north-west border line ; Birmingham also on the border line 

 a little further south ; Moseley, Small Heath, Yardley and Stechford, all 

 suburbs of Birmingham, on the south or south-east side (Moseley and 

 Yardley themselves being actually just over the border) ; Marston Green, 

 Knowle, Solihull, Olton, Hampton-in-Arden, Coleshill and Hay Woods, 



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