106 
LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 
and 20 PteropJiori, as compared with 200, 360, and 20 re- 
spectively recorded by Mr. Barrett, leaving a balance of 55 
species in favour of our western district. This seems to show 
that the Microlepidoptera have had more attention given to them 
here than in the eastern county, principally owing to the 
exertions of Messrs Sircom, Hill, Vaughan, and Grigg, without 
whose aid our list would have been poor indeed. 
The recently published list of Yorkshire Lepidojitera contains 
many more species than our own, which is only natural, the 
area being about six times greater. The totals are Yorkshire 
1341, Bristol district 1310, Norfolk 1246. It thus appears that 
our western Lepidoptera are fairly representative. There are a 
few species, including Drepana siaula, Miselia himaculosa, and 
some micros which have only hitherto been found near Bristol; 
of too many of the species recorded in our list only single 
specimens have been found in the district, some of them not 
having been noticed for many years past. No doubt systematic 
collecting in the marshy country to the south of our district would 
give us many additional species. Some few of the fen species 
have been found there ; why not many others ? The district 
between Axbridge, Wells, and Glastonbury ought to be well 
worth the attention of some of our western entomologists; many 
plants are found there which do not grow^ in other parts of the 
district, and doubtless numerous entomological ‘‘ good things ” 
would fall to the lot of an energetic collector who would pay a 
visit to the locality at the right season of the year. 
