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knowing bow much doubt attaches to many names occurring in tbe 

 best works, and the amount of inaccuracy to be found in many local 

 lists, it appeared to us that more w^ould be lost in value than gained 

 in completeness by quoting authorities indiscriminately : we have 

 therefore confined ourselves to one recent work, which we believe to 

 be compiled with great care, viz. Stainton's ' Manual of British But- 

 terflies,' and for the rest we have relied upon the authority of the 

 following entomologists, to whom our best thanks are due, and whose 

 names will be a sufficient gurantee for the accuracy of their informa- 

 tion : — Messrs. Allis, Ashworth (since deceased), Bond, Buxton, Dou- 

 bleday, Edleston, Harris, Logan, Salt, and Vaughan. Two or three 

 localities are also added on the authority of McGillivray's ' Natural 

 History of Dee-Side.' 



The names adopted are those of Doubleday's ' Synonymic List,' 

 which we believe are at the present time most generally used in this 

 country. The particulars of the " Provinces," into which Mr. Watson 

 has divided Great Britain, are enumerated below : — 



1. Peninsula: Cornwall, Devon, Somerset. 



2. Channel : Dorset, Wilts, Isle of Wight, Hants, Sussex. 



3. Thames : Kent, Surrey, Berks, Oxford, Bucks, Middlesex, 



Herts, Essex. 



4. Ouse : Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, 



Northampton. 



5. Severn : Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick, Stafford, Salop, Here- 



ford, Monmouth. 



6. South Wales : Glamorgan, Caermarthen, Pembroke, Cardigan, 



Brecon, Radnor. 



7. North Wales : Montgomery, Merioneth, Caernarvon, Denbigh, 



Flint, Anglesea. 



8. Trent : Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln, Notts, Derby. 



9. Mersey : Cheshire, Lancashire. 



10. Humber : York. 



11. Tyne: Durham, Northumberland. 



12. Lakes: Westmoreland, Cumberland (Isle of Man). 



13. West Lowlands: Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigton, Ayr, 



Lanark, Renfrew. 



14. East Lowlands: Berwick, Roxburgh, Peebles, Selkirk, Had- 



dington, Edinburgh, Linlithgow. 



15. East Highlands : Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, Stirling, Perth, 



Forfar, Kincardine, xlberdeen, Banff, Moray (including Nairn, 

 Elgin, and the North-east of Inverness). 



