232 PORRITT : LIST OF YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA. 



Brephos parthenias Z. New Park Spring Wood, Cud- 

 worth, April 20th, 1 90 1 {A. IV.). 



AbPOstola tPiplasia L. Doncaster {//.//. C.) ; Everingham ! 

 {J.Stimner); Hull (/. Porter); Pateley Bridge (G.T.P.); 

 Skipwith (CD. A.). 



Plusia festucse L. One at Doncaster in 1891 {A. Paterson) ; 

 Middlesbrough in 1900 [T.A.L.) ; Skipwith in 1897 

 (CD. A.). 



Plusia bractea W. V. Mr. H. H. Corbett records a speci- 

 men as taken by Mr. E. B. Tonkinson at flowers of 

 clematis at Doncaster on August 15th, 1902 (Nat., 

 April 1903, p. 129). The species was exceptionally 

 abundant in its known localities outside our county 

 that year. 



Plusia interrogation is Hiib. Great Ayton and Eston 

 Hills, Cleveland (r./i.Z.); Ilkley (C.^".) ; Ingleby Green- 

 how, not uncommon {F.E.) ; Keighley in 1900 [F.B.) ; 

 Scarborough Moors ! ! {J.H.R.) ; Glaisdale ! ! {F.A.). 



Gonoptera libatrix L. Everingham ! ! (/. Sumner). 



Mania typica Z. Mr. Wilmot Tunstall bred a very extra- 

 ordinary and beautiful variety in 1894 from a larva 

 found near Healey House, Huddersfield. The specimen 

 has a large pink V-shaped mark across each wing. 

 Mr. Tunstall kindly gave me the specimen, and it is 

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



Mania maura Z. South West Riding examples are usually 

 very black, but Mr. B. Morley takes near Skelmanthorpe, 

 where the species is very abundant, an occasional speci- 

 men with the pale parts bright glossy yellow ; one ot 

 these from my own cabinet is figured in Barrett's " Lepi- 

 doptera of the British Islands." 



Stilbia anomala //mv. Great Ayton, 1903 (T.A.L.) ; 

 Ingleby Greenhow, July 1900 (T.A.L.) ; Mr. J. Bean- 



Trans. Y.N.U. Series D, Vol. 2. Dec. 1903. 



