1892.] 



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enormous number of 1,070 birds were shot by him. He is also a keen 

 fisherman. In 1871 he made a sporting and collecting expedition to 

 California and Oregon, and during eighteen months he never slept in 

 a bed. He became a member of the Entomological Society in 1866, 

 and occupied the chair in 1889-90. His contributions to Ento- 

 mological science have been numerous and valuable. He is one of 

 the best preservers of Lepidopterous larvae, and recently presented 

 to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, a very fine 

 collection prepared and mounted by himself, in v^hich he has 

 succeeded in preserving the natural colours by some process of 

 his own. Perhaps it is amongst Micro- Lepidoptera that Lord 

 Walsingham is most at home; his collection of these minute gems 

 is probably the largest in the world, and his writings on the subject 

 are numerous and valuable. In the "Transactions of the Ento- 

 mological Society" for 1891, upwards of 70 species of African Micro- 

 Lepidoptera are figured and described, most of them being new to 

 science. 



A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE 



HYMENOPTERA - ACULEATA 

 OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE, 



WITH NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE GENERA, 



BY WILLOUGHBY GARDNER, F.R.G.S. 



Read before the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, December 14th , 1891. 



Up to the present time, compared with the more generally favored 

 Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, but little work has been done in the 

 counties of Lancashire and Cheshire in the order Hymenoptera\ we 

 have, however, had several observers here and there, who, during a 

 series of years, have paid some attention, at any rate, to the Aculeata. 



It is of course premature at present to attempt to compile a 

 complete Aculeate-Hymenopterous Fauna of the two counties; still, 

 it would appear to be very desirable to bring together and collate the 

 observations which have been made up to date by a few isolated 

 workers in different directions. In this way much interesting 

 information which has hitherto remained scattered, often liable to be 

 eventually lost, may be permanently preserved. 



