A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CuRCULlONiDit {continued) Attelabus curculionoides, L. IVakerUy Rhynchites cupreus, L. IVakerley — xquatus, L. „ — sericeus, Herbst. ,, DeporaOs megacephalus, Germ. — betulae, L. Apion malvx, F. — miniatum, Germ. — astragali, Payk. Neighbourhood of Northampton (Greville) — apricans, Herbst. — nigritarse, Kirby Otiorrhynchus atroapterus, De G. — sulcatus, F. — ovatus, L. Strophosomus coryli, F. Barypeithes sulcifrons, Boh. Polydrusus micans, F. — tereticollis, De G. — pterygomalis, Boh. Phyllobius oblongus, L. — calcaratus, F. — urtica;, De G. — pyri, L. CuRCULiONiD^ {continued) Phyllobius argentatus, L. — pomonae, Ol. — viridixris, Laich. Sitones regensteinensis, Herst. — flavescens, Marsh — iineatus, L. — tibialis, Herbst. — sulcifrons, Thun. Hypera nigrirostris, F. Curculio abietis, L. Orchestes alni, L. Dorytomus vorax, F. — maculatus. Marsh Tanysphyrus lemnae, F. Cionus tuberculosus, Scop. — hortulanus. Marsh Cryptorrhynchus lapathi, L. Coeliodes rubicundus, Herbst. Balaninus turbatus, Gyll. — salicivorus, Payk. ScOLYTIDii: Hylesinus crenatus, F. IVakerley — fraxini, Panz. „ Trypodendron domesticum, L. IVakerley LEPIDOPTERA {Butterflies and Moths) To collectors of the Lepidoptera Northamptonshire, notwithstand- ing its insular position and the absence of any extent of moorland and fen, or mountain ranges, is of considerable interest, and its extensive woodlands contain certain species ' which are not met with elsewhere in the United Kingdom except in a few localities in two or three neighbouring counties. Forty or fifty years ago the county was well worked for the Macro- Lepidoptera (the Butterflies and large Moths) by the Ven. Archdeacon Bree, the Rev. Hamlet Clark, the Rev. W. Whall, Mr. Sturgess and the late Mr. Frederick Bond ; and during the last thirty-five years many species belonging to the same groups have been collected and recorded by the writer, by Mr. W. Hull, Mr. H. F. Tomalin, Mr. T. H. Briggs, Mr. F. Bouskell, Mr. G. Claridge Druce, Mr. W. J. Kaye, the Hon. Charles Rothschild, Mr. Eustace Wallis, and especially by Captain J. A. W. Vipan. The Rhopalocera (Butterflies) are well represented,* though three local species ' have been apparently extinct in the county for some years. • e.g. the Black Hairstreak {Thecla prunO) and the Chequered Skipper {Heiperia paniscus).
- A complete list will be found at pages 09. It is not thought necessary to enumerate in the
introductory observations all the common species which occur in every county. Fifty-three species have occurred in the county, or three more than in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. — H. G. ' The Black-veined White {Pierit cratagi), the Mazarine Blue {Lycana acis), and the Large Blue (I. arion). The last named still occurs not uncommonly in a few localities in Gloucestershire, Devon and Cornwall. — H. G. 94
