74 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



obfioleta. CoennnipiijiJia tiplion is our most interesting local bntterfl}'. 

 I have found it in two places on the moors, and searched for it, so far 

 without success, at May Moss, where it has been recorded. A full 

 description of one of these localities, with figures of the butterfly, is to 

 be seen in Mr. Kowland-Brown's monograph in Fascicule VII. of 

 Oberthiir's Ktiuies de Lepidopterolorjie comparee. Last of all, Melananfia 

 (jalatlica was really abundant in 1914 near Cowlam on the Wolds. I 

 turned it up there in 1902 ; this must be, I think, its most northerly 

 habitat in the British Isles. 



I have not mentioned species of general distribution or others like 

 Pleheiiia aef/on and (Jiipidn uiiuiiniis, which have been recorded here and 

 probably only want working for to be found again. 



Of the hawk moths, Aniorjt/ia pojnili is our only resident species, 

 and it occurs everywhere in and around the town. Afirius couvolndi 

 and Sesia [Macrotjloftsa) titeUatariiiii turn up in numbers novv' and then, 

 generally on the cliffs and sea-front. My clearwing records are two 

 only : ^Ef/eria (Sesia) tifiulifoniiis and TrocliiUioii crabmnifuniiis {heiiihe- 

 cifoiiiiis) ; doubtless the fault is mine. The latter is common all over 

 the town wherever Popidua nhpa has been planted. I took a dozen 

 and a half in three or four bright mornings last July from a small 

 group of poplar trees in the Valley. Our Antlnoceridae are interesting 

 because of the large forms of A. lonicerae which can be got in any 

 quantity at various places along the clifi's, north and south of the 

 town. Adscita (jcriion is common on Haugh Rigg near Pickering and 

 also at Sledmere, and A. atatices in the marshes east of Seamer. 



Hijhifdiila prasinana is frequent; Nolo stii(iida rarer in Eainclift" 

 Woods than formerly. Ni(daria inundana is common generally, but I 

 have not seen a single member of the genus IJtIuma. On the moors 

 one gets i^/flr/'i'.s/rt aannio, Paraseuiia {Xe}iiC()phila) jdantaiiinis, and I'hrai/- 

 tiialiibia {Sjiilosoina) fiiliijinosa, as well as J\Iacrotln/lacia rubi, Ladocavi pa 

 (jiicrciis var. callunae, and Saturnia paconia. All except the first are 

 common. The cocoons of P. fidif/inosa are easy to find in the spring, 

 spun up in the heather tops. The three last-named are really 

 abundant, especially on the wide stretches of untouched moorland be- 

 tween Newton Dale and the sea. Arctia caia is locally common and 

 Cdsiiiotric/ie (Odonestis) jiotatoria I have never found myself, though 

 larvffi were once brought to me. Leucoina saliciK turned up once in a 

 friend's garden. I have other solitary records equally difticult of 

 explanation. 



All the Hepialidae are here, 11. rellcda in swarms on the moors and 

 hillsides, and in every variety. Cossits U(jniperda I once took sitting 

 on an ash tree ; it is fairly general. 



Among the Drepamdidac, 1). lacertinaria occurs at the edge of the 

 moorland above the town and D. falcataria in the woods with Cili.r 

 (jlancata. Scarborough was at one time noted as a locality for 

 P>lr.ranura bicuspis. I have found D. bifida and D. vinida, but so far 

 not the other. We get several Xotndontidae, of course chiefly as larva', 

 though I have taken LofduiptcDjx camcUna, Xotudonta dictaeoides, and 

 K. drotnedaiiiia as imagines. There are certain groups of small aspens 

 and birches here and there on the moors where one can be almost sure 

 of getting larvct of the commoner Dicrannridae and Xntodontiflac, as 

 well as Acronicta leporina, Ci/iiiatophora or, and other things. 



