A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



in many cases it is possible to separate the Derbyshire records. A 

 second instalment of this paper dealing with the Micro-Lepidoptera and 

 compiled by Messrs. J. T. Harris and P. B. Mason was published in 

 the Transactions of the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archceological 

 Society (1892), ii. 1-14. 



In 1895 Mr. F. W. G. Payne published a Catalogue of the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera of Derbyshire in the Entomologist (pp. 49, 117, 170). A 

 fair proportion of the records in this list are from the northern part of 

 the county, which hitherto had been altogether neglected. Unfortu- 

 nately entire dependence cannot be placed upon this list as several 

 species have undoubtedly been included in error. 1 A paper on the 

 Rhopalocera of Derbyshire by the present writer was published in 

 the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 

 (1903), xxv. 



Besides the above more important papers many short notes and 

 records are to be found in various entomological periodicals, and New- 

 man's work on British butterflies and moths contains many references 

 to Derbyshire which were probably communicated by the Rev. H. 

 Harpur Crewe and Joseph Greene. 



It must however be admitted that Derbyshire is not rich in 

 Rhopalocera. Although forty species have been recorded from the 

 county, only about fourteen or fifteen can be described as at all com- 

 mon. Several species which were formerly numerous locally have now 

 disappeared. Others are absent from the greater part of the county 

 and only occur in limited areas, while a large proportion are merely rare 

 accidental visitors. On the other hand the Heterocera are much better 

 represented, and in the south and near Derby have been well worked, 

 although a good deal still remains to be done among the Micro-Lepi- 

 doptera, more especially the Tineae. 



In conclusion I must express my thanks to all who have assisted 

 in the compilation of the present list, more especially Messrs. Hugo 

 Harpur Crewe, J. Hill, E. A. Cockayne and G. Pullen ; the Rev. 

 C. F. Thornewill, R. H. Fuller and W. H. Purchas, and also Miss 

 Crewe, who kindly placed some notebooks of the late Rev. H. Harpur 

 Crewe at my service. The exigences of space have prevented the 

 publication of authorities in many cases ; as a general rule those men- 

 tioned in the Natural History of Tut bury, Wild Flowers, etc., of Repton, 

 Mr. F. W. G. Payne's list and those published by the Burton-on-Trent 

 Natural History Society have not been repeated (with one or two ex- 

 ceptions), while those given are either published for the first time or 

 have been taken from scattered papers, or else have been overlooked by 

 later compilers. 



The total number of species treated of in the following list amounts 

 to 914, composed as follows: 



1 e.g. Syticthus malv<t, L., AcidaRa immutata, L., and ^gratis fata, Hb. 



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