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 INSECTS CuRCUUONiD.ffi (continued) Ceuthorrhynchidius hepaticus, Gyll. R. Amalus haemorrhous, Hbst. R. Rhinoncus pericarpius, L. perpendicularis, Reich. .R. ; B. (Bates) castor, F. R. Eubrychius velatus, Beck. R. Litodactylus leucogaster, Marsh. R. ; B. (Bates) Limnobaris T-album, L. R. Balaninus venosus, Grav. R. nucum, L. B., R. y E. turbatus, Gyll. R. villosus, F. R. salicivorus, Payk. pyrrhoceras, Marsh. Calandra granaria, L. Magdalis cerasi, L. R. pruni, L. CURCULIONIDJE (continued) Magdalis armigera, Fourc. B. SCOLYTID^E Scolytus destructor, CM. Hylastes palliatus, Gyll. M. opacus, Er. R. ater, Payk. R. Hylesinus crenatus, F. R., B. oleiperda, F. M., R. fraxini, Panz. vittatus, F. R., B. Myelophilus piniperda, L. R., E. Cryphalus abietis, Ratz. R. Pityophthorus pubescens, Marsh. R., B. Xylocleptes bispinus, Duft. R. Dryocaetes villosus, F. R. Tomicus laricis, F. R. acuminatus, Gyll. R., D. Pityogenes bidentatus, Hbst. M., R. LEPIDOPTERA As indeed is usually the case, the Lepidoptera of Derbyshire have been more systematically worked out than any other order of insects. Perhaps this applies more particularly to the southern part of the county, which has never lacked observers for the last fifty years, for in the north entomologists are few and far between. One of the earliest lists we possess is that of Stephen Glover in his History of the County of Derby (1829), i. 174, who gives a list of twenty-five species. Papilio machaon is here mentioned, and may possibly have occurred on Sinfin Moor and the marshes of the Trent, but it is doubtful whether Glover can be re- lied upon, especially as he also mentions the ' Emperor Butterfly, Papilio imperator.' 1 The first serious attempt at a local list was that of Mr. Edwin Brown, who contributed an account of the Fauna of Burton to the Natural History of Tutbury (1863), pp. 185-210. Here some 600 species are mentioned, but the district embraced is a wide one and includes parts of Staffordshire and Leicestershire as well as south Derbyshire. Fortu- nately in most cases localities are given. In 1866 the Rev. F. Spilsbury contributed a list of Lepidoptera of the Repton district to a small work entitled Contributions to the Flora and Fauna of Repton and Neighbourhood, and in the second edition of this work (1881) the list is reprinted with additions by Messrs. P. B. Mason and W. Garneys. Here again about 600 species are recorded, but in almost all cases from localities within the county boundaries. Little of importance was published subsequently until 1885, when the entomological section of the Burton-on-Trent Natural History Society compiled a catalogue of the Macro-Lepidoptera of Burton-on-Trent and neighbourhood, which was first published in the Entomologist for that year and was afterwards reprinted in the "Trans- actions of the Burton-on-T'rent Natural History and Arcbceological Society ( i 889), i. 1 14. The district included is from fifteen to twenty miles around Burton, but exact localities are given as well as observers' initials, so that 77