1250 The Zoologist— June, 1868. 



' Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects,' and Stainton's 

 'Manual of British Butterflies and Moths.' Then, as to the exactness 

 of the idea given of the ' Distribution of Lepidoptera in Great Britain,' 

 this exactness is entirely wanting; for instance, the six species of 

 Satyrus are denied to South Wales, simply, I presume, on the ground 

 of there being no printed records of their capture, although to my 

 certain knowledge, all of them are abundant, and two or three swarm 

 to an excess scarcely known elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 

 The three subprovinces, 17, including the counties of Cardigan, 

 Carmarthen and Pembroke ; 18, including the counties of Merioneth, 

 Montgomery, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Flint and Anglesea, and 19, 

 containing Lincoln only, are perhaps the richest of all in Lepidopterous 

 insects, whereas from the absence of recorded observations, Ihey appear 

 the poorest : on the other hand the Metropolitan counties, in all proba- 

 bility the poorest, appear in these tables to be the richest — a result, of 

 course, of the greater number of observers; thus these laborious tables 

 give us practical evidence of the number, care and energy of the entomo- 

 logists who reside in them or visit them, but have no direct bearing 

 on their entomological productions. 



It is impossible not to feel the warmest admiration for the industry 

 and tenacity of purpose which has carried the author through his self- 

 imposed task, but it is equally impossible to overlook the points, in 

 which these great qualities have failed to accomplish their object. Mr. 

 Watson's ' Cybele Britanica' has served as the author's model, but 

 then Mr. Watson visited, either in person or by proxy, the localities 

 he enumerates; and plants, moreover, are stationary, they remain 

 rooted in the earth throughout the year; while Lepidoptera are 

 notoriously evanescent: they appear for a week, or perhaps a fort- 

 night, and then remain hidden for the rest of the year, so that, in the 

 absence of resident observers, like Mr. Doubleday at Epping, or 

 constant visitors, such as frequent Darenth and West Wickham, there 

 is no mode of attaining even a superficial knowledge of the insect 

 fauna of a county. Edward Newman. 



Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire. 



By John Cordeaux, Esq. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 1125). 



March 13. Pied wagtails arrived in gradually increasing numbers, 

 both on the marshes and on the higher sands, from the 13th to the 

 25th of March. 



