A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE 



Brachytarsus varius, F. Trench Woods Grypidius equiseti, F. From horsetail, 

 Byctiscus populi, L. Monkwood^ etc. Teme Bank 



Rhynchites aeneovirens, Marsh. IVyre Forest Dorytomus vorax, F. Base of poplar, Camp 



Apion difForme, Ahr. Birchen Grove — tremulas, Payk. Broadmoor Green 



— varipes, Germ. Croiun East Acalles roboris. Curt. Trench Woods 



— ebeninum, Kirby. Monkwood Baris lepidii, Germ. Among herbage by the 



— filirostre, Kirby. Peg-house Wood Teme 



Otiorrhynchus ligneus, Ol. Crown East Magdalis barbicornis, Latr. Temple Laughern 



Polydrusus teretricollis, De G. Shrawley Scolytus multistriatus. Marsh. Beaten from 



IFood hedge, Bransford 



Tanymecus palliatus, F. By beating hedge, Hylastes palliatus, Gyll. Pitmaston 



Bransford Cissophagus hederee, Schmidt. Bransford 



LEPIDOPTERA 



In enumerating the following list of Worcestershire Lepidoptera 

 we have been compelled to adopt a broad boundary line in order that we 

 might incorporate therein the records of fellow entomologists whose 

 reports merely state Malvern, West Malvern, Wyre Forest, Broadway or 

 Bredon, without definitively setting out the county wherein the captures 

 were made. This omission we think cannot much affect the value of 

 the list as a county record, seeing that insects are not likely to be 

 restricted to the boundary line of the map, but would in all probability 

 occur on both sides of it. 



In 1834 Charles Hastings, M.D., published Illustrations of the 

 Natural History of Worcestershire, which, in appendix C. entitled ' A 

 Catalogue of some of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects found in Worcester- 

 shire,' by Edwin Lees, enumerated some 230 species, and the specimens 

 were represented in the cabinet of A. Edmunds. This list is referred to 

 hereafter as I.N.H.W. 



In 1870 the Rev. E. Horton recorded 328 species in a paper 

 entitled ' List of Malvern Lepidoptera,' which is printed in T'he 

 T'ransactions of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club, part iii. pp. 175—184. 

 This is more of a county list than a local one, seeing that it includes 

 Bredon, Bow Wood, Trench Woods, Monk Wood, Martley, Shrawley, 

 etc. It is cited herein as T.M.N. F.C. 



In 1899 appeared by far the most reliable list that has hitherto been 

 published for a portion of the county. It is entitled The Butterflies and 

 Moths of Malvern, by the veteran and esteemed entomologists, W. 

 Edwards and R. F. Towndrow. It enumerates 590 species. This list 

 embraces a circle, as the crow flies, round Malvern of six miles, and thus 

 renders, where the locality is not definitely stated in another county, the 

 task of the present writers harder. This list is referred to as E. & T. 



Worcestershire is referred to in the systematic works of the follow- 

 ing, and will be quoted as follows : — 



H. T. Stainton, A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 1857- 

 1859: St. 



E. Newman, The Natural History of British Moths ana Butterflies, 

 1869: N. 



E. Meyrick, A Handbook of British Lepidoptera, 1895 : M. 



