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 INSECTS thought it worth while to give all those most likely to be correct in order to give a better idea of distribution inside the county. Even for this purpose the lists are rather unsatisfactory, as unfortunately exact localities are not always given, and Rugby may mean some place 10 miles away, perhaps not even in Warwickshire, as Rugby is so near the border. Several of the contributors to the reports were masters and others whose records are much more reliable, such as the Rev. A. H. Wratislaw, Messrs. J. M. Furness, A. and N. V. Sidgwick, and I have usually quoted their names in addition. Mr. F. Enock's Lists in Pro- ceedings of Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society referred to in the general introduction are quoted as ' F. Enock, List,' 1869 or 1870 ; and the brief popular account he gave in the Saturday Half- Holiday Guide as F. Enock, Saturday Guide. It should be pointed out that even though they may have been accurate, some of the records of Messrs. F. Enock and W. G. Blatch in these older publications were correct only for the time when they were written, and the insects referred to cannot always be found still in the same places. Of the other authorities most of them explain themselves. I have had opportunities of examining Messrs. R. C. Bradley 's and H. W. Ellis' collections and have had lists supplied to me by Messrs. C. Baker, W. Kiss, W. C. E. Wheeler and N. V. Sidgwick, Dr. P. P. Baly and Rev. W. Bree, and all their records are taken from those lists. Rev. J. H. Bloom collected information specially for me for purposes of this work, and sent to me the records of Mr. Austen and Mr. L. C. Keighley-Peach. I have had no opportunity of seeing any of the specimens recorded by them. Most of the remainder of the records have been given either personally or have been obtained through specimens shown at meetings of the Bir- mingham Entomological Society, and have been gradually accumulated, a few only having been obtained, after much search, from the magazines, etc. The list will be found a poor one, especially in the smaller and more obscure groups, but this is not surprising seeing that the county has never had a collector who has given his undivided attention to the whole of the Lepidoptera. Mr. Blatch was primarily a coleopterist and Mr. R. C. Bradley has given most of his time to Diptera and Aculeate Hymenoptera, and few of the others have ever studied any but the Macro-Lepidoptera. I myself am not a lepidopterist, but have given most of my time to a few groups of the Diptera. Some years ago however I gave a little attention to the Lepidoptera, when like too many others I took little notice of the ' Micros,' of which I know very little, so that that part of the following list is chiefly compilation. Where no authority is quoted for a record, I am myself responsible. The chief places quoted are situated, roughly speaking, as follows : Sutton on the north-west border line ; Birmingham also on the border line a little further south ; Moseley, Small Heath, Yardley and Stechford, all suburbs of Birmingham, on the south or south-east side (Moseley and Yardley themselves being actually just over the border) ; Marston Green, Knowle, Solihull, Olton, Hampton-in-Arden, Coleshill and Hay Woods, 125