A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



CURCULIONIDAE {continued) 



Ceuthorrhynchidius iioralis, Payk. 



— nigrinus, Marsh. Exmouth 



— melanarius, Steph. Plymouth 



— terminatus, Herbst. Batten nr. Plymouth 



— horridus, F. Kingsbridge 



— distinctus, Bris. South Brent 



— quercicola, Payk. Exeter 



— troglodytes, F. 



— Dawsoni, Bris. Batten nr. Plymouth; Lundy Is- 



land. Formerly abundant at Whitsand Bay, 

 and I have taken it at Ventnor, I. of Wight. 

 It occurs on Plantago coronopus 

 Rhinoncus pericarpius, L. 



— gramineus, F. (inconspectus, Aub6). Exeter, 



Slapton Ley 



— perpendicularis, Reich, (subfasciatus, Gyll.) 



— castor, F. 



— bruchoides, Herbst. 

 Eubrychius velatus. Beck 

 Litodactylus leucogaster. Marsh. 

 Phytobius waltoni, Boh. 



— quadrituberculatus, F. 



— canaliculatus, Fiihr. 



Baris lepidii, Germ. Seaton Doziin (Power) 

 Balaninus venosus, Grav. (glandium, Brit. Cat.) 



— nucum, L. 



— betulae, Steph. (cerasorum, Herbst.). Exeter; 



Bickleigh Vale 



— villosus, Herbst. 



— salicivorus, Payk. (brassicae, Brit. Cat.) 



— pyrrhoceras, Marsh. 

 Calandra granaria, L. 



— oryzae, L. 



CURCULIONIDAE {continued) 



Pentarthrum huttoni, Woll. Alphington ; Plymouth 

 (J. H. Keys) 



Cossonus ferrugineus, Clairv. Exeter ; Plymouth 

 *Rhopalomesites tardyi, Curt. Mount Edgecumbe Park 

 nr. Plymouth ; Ilfracombe (J. J. Walker) 



Rhyncolus lignarius. Marsh, (cylindrirostris, 01.) 



Caulotrypis aeneopiceus. Boh. Plymouth (in old oak 

 beams in house) ; Batten (in old tree) ; Ilfra- 

 combe 



Codiosoma spadix, Herbst. Batten 



Magdalis armigera, Fourc. (atramentaria, Marsh.) 



— pruni, L. 



SCOLYTIDAE 



Scolytus destructor, Ol. 



— multistriatus. Marsh. 

 Hylastes ater, Payk. Exeter 



— opacus, Er. Bickleigh Vale 



Hylastinus obscurus. Marsh. Batten; Plymouth 

 Hylesinus crenatus, F. Exeter district 



— frazini, Panz. 



— vittatus, F. 

 Myelophilus piniperda, L. 

 Phloeophthorus rhododactylus, Marsh. 

 Pityophthorus pubescens, Marsh, (micrographus, Brit. 



Cat.) 

 Xylodeptes bispinus, Duft. 

 Dryocaetes villosus, F. 

 Tomicus laricis, F. 

 Trypodendron domesticum, L. Bickleigh Vale, Mount 



Edgecumbe 



LEPIDOPTERA 



Butterflies and Moths 



For Lepidoptera the county of Devon has been a favoured hunting-ground from the earliest 

 times during which we have any knowledge of the study of this order. A. H. Haworth, in his 

 Lepidoptera Britannica (1803) recorded the captures of Dr. Leach, Mr. Fracillon, and Mr. Raddon, 

 in the previous century ; and those of Captain Blomer are constantly referred to by J. F. Stephens, 

 in his Illustrations of British Entomology (1827) and by other writers. 



From that date till the present our knowledge of the subject in this county has constantly been 

 kept up by a succession of earnest workers. The late Dr. R. C. R. Jordan and his brothers at 

 Teignmouth ; Messrs. J. J. Reading and J. S. Dell in the Plymouth district ; Dr. Battel-sby at 

 Torquay ; Mr. G. F. Mathew, R.N., F.L.S. at Barnstaple ; and Messrs. J. D'Orville and Edward 

 Parfitt at Exeter, brought the subject into a very advanced stage of knowledge, strengthened by the 

 publication of valuable catalogues. 



At Exeter the late Rev. John Hellins, M.A., devoted his spare hours for many years to the 

 working out of the preparatory stages, and collaborated most elFectively with Mr. W, Buckler in the 

 next county, in advancing our knowledge of the larvae. At Plymouth my friend Mr. G. C. Bignell 

 has spent a large portion of his valuable life enriching our stores of knowledge in other orders as well 

 as the present, and it is to his unwearied assistance that I personally owe much of my own knowledge 

 of this the county of my birth. Here also good work has been done by Mr. W. H. Basden-Smith. 

 Among the many others who have left records of their work in the contemporary magazines, may be 

 mentioned Mr. E. S. Norcombe, of Heavitree ; Dr. W. S. Riding of Honiton ; Dr. LongstafF for 

 the district of Morthoe ; Miss K. M. Hinckliff of Instow ; the late Major Still, who did good work 

 at Seaton and on Dartmoor ; Mr. F. G. Briggs of Egg Buckland ; Major C. M. Wells of Sidmouth ; 

 and Mr. E. F. Studd of Oxton, near Exeter. 



Visitors have done a large share of the entomological work since the county began to be distin- 

 guished as the principal point of immigration for conspicuous European species not previously recog- 

 nized as British residents ; and the published and privately furnished records of the late Mr. H. T. 



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