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W. Warren. Yorkshire. 

 ' Note on Dichrorampha tanaceti [and its synonymy, in course of which the 

 writer notes that he has bred D. herbosaiia in Yorkshire from roots of tansy 

 and yarrow, among which plants he also caught them flying in numbers]. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., Jan. i88s, xxi. igo-i. 



William Warren. Lancashire or Furness. 



Notes on the Species of Heinemann's Family Chauliodidae that occur in 

 England [ALc/i;nia profiigella Stn., abundant in Lancashire, where it has 

 been bred by Threlfall and Murray from Pimpinella saxifraga], Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., Dec. 1887, xxiv. 147. 



|rC. O. Waterhotise.] Yorkshire.. 

 [Sphinx convolvuli taken in Yorkshire, brought to British Museum, and 

 exhibited to Ent. Soc. Lond., Oct. 7th, 1885.] Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., Oct. 

 7th, 1885, p. XXV.; Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec. 1885, xxii. 167. 



A. H. Waters. ' North of England.' 



Winter Moths \_Cheii)iatobia boj'eata said to be abundant in the North of 

 England, but absent in Scotland]. Nat. World, Jan. 1886, p. 7. 



[Mr, Wellmax.] ? Derbyshire. 



[Agrotis cursoria from Burton-on-Trent, exhibited to vSouth Lond. Ent. Soc, 

 Aug. 25th, 1887]. Young Nat., Oct. 1887, viii. 198. 



[Mr. Wellmax.] ? Derbyshire.^ 



[Lobophora viretata Hb., from Burton-on-Trent, exhibited to South Lond. 

 Ent. Soc, June 23rd, 1887.] Ent. Mo. Mag., Aug. 1887, xxiv. 71; Ent., 

 Aug. 1887, XX. 215 ; and Young Nat., Aug. 1887, viii. 162. 



[Mr. Wellmax.] ? Derbyshire.. 



[Burton-on-Trent examples of Ag-rotis cursoria Bork., exhibited to South 

 Lond. Ent. Soc, Aug. 25th, 1887.] Ent. Mo. Mag., Oct. 1887, xxiv. 119 ; 

 Ent., Oct. 1887, XX. 287.. 



TuFFEN Wes'j . Lancashire. 

 . . Oak Egger Moth, Lasiocanipa Qiierctis [mentioning that an ento- 

 mologist carrying some females by train between Liverpool and Manchester, 

 several males dashed against the windows of the carriage, etc.]. Journ. 

 of Micr. and Nat. Sci., Jan. 1886, v. 45. 



The Titles given above — 264 in number — -substantially represent 

 the work accomplished by lepidopterists during the three years 1885, 

 1886, and 1887, with the exception of such few Titles as may have 

 escaped the notice of the compilers of this Bibliography. 



Titles of papers which have appeared in our own journal are 

 not given here, to save space and repetition, more especially as the 

 Index to The Naturalist is compiled with a special view to con- 

 venience of reference. 



The broad features of the lepidopterous work of the three years 

 may be summed up by a reference to the continued activity of the 

 Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham, and Yorkshire ento- 

 mologists, and the publication for the two first-named counties of 

 Dr. Ellis's and Mr. A. O. Walker's valuable county-lists ; the equal 

 activity of the Burton-on-Trent naturalists resulting also in a most 



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