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PART I. MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF 



A LIST OF 



BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA 



AND THEIR 



NAMED VARIETIES. 



BY 



JOHN E. ROBSON and JOHN GARDNER. 



( Dedicated by Special Permission to the Members of the Haggerston 



Entomological Society.) 



THE LIST CONTAINS— 



1. The name of each species in ordinary use in Britain, and the authority for it. 



2. The name' or names that have been preferred by different writers, and the authority. 



3. The date at which each came was given, when there are more than one. 



4. The names given to varieties, and the authority for them. 



5. A brief description of the difference between each variety and the type. 



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THE NATURALIST, 



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NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE NORTH OP ENGLAND. 



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 The object of the Journal is the elucidation of the Natural History, Geology , and 

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 Recent numbers contain, among others, the following Articles: — The Lepidopterous 

 Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire — John W. Ellis, L.R.C.P. ; Bibliography of North of 

 England, papers for 1884 ; Strasbruger's New Investigations on the Process of Fertilization 

 in Phanerogams. — Thos. Hick, B.A., B.Sc. ; Merlins and their Training— H. T. Archer ; 

 Ornithology of Upper Coquetdale — John Cordeaux and Abel Chapman; On a Mega- 

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 The Marine Shells of Yorkshire— Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A. ; Additions to the Wensleydale 

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