226 PORRITT : LIST OF YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA. 



any other part of the British Islands ; the colouring- of 

 the specimens is exceedingly rich, and I have one, 

 figured in Barrett's "Lepidoptera of the British Islands," 

 of a rich golden yellow {G.T.P.). 



Anchocelis pistacina IV. V. Everingham ! ! (/. Sumner) ; 

 Hull {J.W.B.); Middlesbrough {T.A.L.) ; Skipwith 

 {C.D.A.). 



Anchocelis lunosa Haw. New Park Spring- Wood, Cud- 

 worth, two at sugar, Sept. 14th, 1901 {A.W.); Doncaster 

 in 1891 {H.H.C.); Maltby Wood {L.S.B.) ; Middles- 

 brough {T.A.L.). 



Cerastls spadicea IV. V. Edlington Wood, Doncaster 

 (L.S.B.); Everingham!! (/. Sionner); Hull (/. Por/er); 

 Skelmanthorpe, one in 1901 (B.AI.) ; Skipwith, "swarm- 

 ing at sugar, one night over seventy on two small trees " 

 (CD. A., Nat., March 1885, pp. 83 and 90). 



Xanthia citrago Z. Hayburn Wyke {G.T.P.); Ingleby, 

 Cleveland [W.S.) ; Rotherham (/.A'. I'.). 



Xanthia aurago IV. V. This species, formerly a great 

 rarity in the county, appears to be getting commoner, 

 and extending its rang^e. Barnsley in 1903 {A.W.) \ 

 one at Doncaster in 1893 [H./I.C.) ; fourteen speci- 

 mens at Rotherham, Sept. 30th to Oct. 8th, 1893 {/. Bloor 

 and/. Brooks) ; Sheffield, Oct. 22nd, 1887 (.4. E. Hall) ; 

 Skelmanthorpe, near Huddersfield, several in a beech 

 wood in 1900, and two in Deffer Wood, Sept. 28th, 1901 

 {B.M.). 



Xanthia gilvago Esp. Castle Howard {G.C.D.) ; Evering- 

 ham ! [J. Simmer) ; Scarborough in 1900 (T. JV. Lowus- 

 horough) ; Skipwith {CD. A.). 



Cirraedla xerampelina Hub. This is another species which 

 has been taken in abundance of late years, owing no 

 doubt to the discovery of better ways to find it both as 

 larva and imago. The variety unicolor Gn. too is of 



Trans. Y.N. II. Series D, Vol. 2. Der. 1903. 



