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THE twenty-first annual report of the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee deals chiefly with 1934 records, and in addition to adding 146 new records to their faunal lists and 44 to one county, there are species new to Britain and to science. Of the Micro-Lepidoptera, a species bred by F. N. Pierce and W. Mansbridge from alpaca wool and wrongly considered Tinea merdella, Staint, is now found to be new to science and is named Tinea lanella, Pierce and Metcalfe. Scythris fallacella is a small moth new to Britain from the north Lancashire limestone. The small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly has reappeared in the Delamere Forest area of Cheshire after fifty years absence. Of Coleoptera, Anthicus tobias, Mars., previously recorded from India, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Turkey, and said to have been from rotten sacking in Kent previously, was found breeding in some numbers by Mr. H. Britten on the Manchester Corporation refuse dump. Fifteen new records of Mallophaga for the counties are added from studies of wild and domestic birds. Efforts are being made to find the Cooke collection of sawflies compiled in the area last century, hi order to examine the material in the light of the committee's present knowledge of the Hymenoptera-Symphyta. Request is also made for shrews and bats for parasite study at the University of Manchester. The ornithological report for Lancashire and Cheshire includes little of wide interest compared to former years.
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Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna. Nature 137, 811 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137811d0
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