CRABBE, George

published on the Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir in John Nichols, Bibliotheca Topopgraphia Britannica, VIII, Antiquities in Leicestershire, 1790, includes what must surely be one of the earliest local lists of Coleoptera (pp.1259-1262). This list, which makes specific and general references to more than seventy species (I am grateful to Derek Lott for pointing out that this total may be incorrect. Other copies of the list eg in John Nichols, Additional Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Leicestershire (1790) mention only 41 species (pp.1256-1291)), was reviewed by Donisthorpe (not Davis as I stated earlier) in Leics.lit.phil.Soc., 4, 1896, 198-200, as noticed by his son George, of which there are many editions, the last being published in 1932. (MD 4/02, 1/07)