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 A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE Brachytarsus varius, F. Trench Woods Grypidius equiseti, F. From horsetail, Byctiscus populi, L. Monkwood^ etc. Teme Bank Rhynchites aeneovirens, Marsh. IVyre Forest Dorytomus vorax, F. Base of poplar, Camp Apion difForme, Ahr. Birchen Grove — tremulas, Payk. Broadmoor Green — varipes, Germ. Croiun East Acalles roboris. Curt. Trench Woods — ebeninum, Kirby. Monkwood Baris lepidii, Germ. Among herbage by the — filirostre, Kirby. Peg-house Wood Teme Otiorrhynchus ligneus, Ol. Crown East Magdalis barbicornis, Latr. Temple Laughern Polydrusus teretricollis, De G. Shrawley Scolytus multistriatus. Marsh. Beaten from IFood hedge, Bransford Tanymecus palliatus, F. By beating hedge, Hylastes palliatus, Gyll. Pitmaston Bransford Cissophagus hederee, Schmidt. Bransford LEPIDOPTERA In enumerating the following list of Worcestershire Lepidoptera we have been compelled to adopt a broad boundary line in order that we might incorporate therein the records of fellow entomologists whose reports merely state Malvern, West Malvern, Wyre Forest, Broadway or Bredon, without definitively setting out the county wherein the captures were made. This omission we think cannot much affect the value of the list as a county record, seeing that insects are not likely to be restricted to the boundary line of the map, but would in all probability occur on both sides of it. In 1834 Charles Hastings, M.D., published Illustrations of the Natural History of Worcestershire, which, in appendix C. entitled ' A Catalogue of some of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects found in Worcester- shire,' by Edwin Lees, enumerated some 230 species, and the specimens were represented in the cabinet of A. Edmunds. This list is referred to hereafter as I.N.H.W. In 1870 the Rev. E. Horton recorded 328 species in a paper entitled ' List of Malvern Lepidoptera,' which is printed in T'he T'ransactions of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club, part iii. pp. 175—184. This is more of a county list than a local one, seeing that it includes Bredon, Bow Wood, Trench Woods, Monk Wood, Martley, Shrawley, etc. It is cited herein as T.M.N. F.C. In 1899 appeared by far the most reliable list that has hitherto been published for a portion of the county. It is entitled The Butterflies and Moths of Malvern, by the veteran and esteemed entomologists, W. Edwards and R. F. Towndrow. It enumerates 590 species. This list embraces a circle, as the crow flies, round Malvern of six miles, and thus renders, where the locality is not definitely stated in another county, the task of the present writers harder. This list is referred to as E. & T. Worcestershire is referred to in the systematic works of the follow- ing, and will be quoted as follows : — H. T. Stainton, A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 1857- 1859: St. E. Newman, The Natural History of British Moths ana Butterflies, 1869: N. E. Meyrick, A Handbook of British Lepidoptera, 1895 : M.