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three Hyherniae are common ; of H. vmniinaria a large percentage are 

 var. infuNcata. In April Lobap/mra carpinata is locally abundant on 

 birch trunks and gives some pretty forms. In the early summer 

 months the woods are well worth working for Astliena hhniieri, Vemisia 

 ccuiihriva, Odo7itopera bidentata (with numerous dark forms), Abra.ras 

 sylvato, three Eninielesiae [K. affinitata is very common), Hypi^i petes 

 rube'ata and H. inipluviata, Me^ideuca {MelavtJiia) olbiriUata, and the 

 like. The two pests are Xanthnrhd'e (Melanippr) uxintonata and 

 ]\Jalc)ii/drin (Larentia) didywata. CaniptoiiranDiia hilineata is nowhere 

 common around Scarborough. I have taken it on Seamer Carr, where 

 pretty banded forms occur. 



The moors afford certain species in great abnndance and varietj'^, 

 such as K))iatin(/a atoDiaria, Kntephria (Loreniia) caesiata, hypKi petes 

 ftircata (sordidata), Lyyris (Cidaria) popnlata and L.textaia. Rarer are 

 Perconia (Aspilates) strigillaria (Seamer and Hackness Moors), Saidiuna 

 hehjiaria and Xantlwrlio'e [Melanippe) tiistata. The pine woods are 

 good for Cidaria imwanata besides the ordinary pine feeding species. 

 In August, 1903, I took this species in great numbers and extra- 

 ordinary variety. Twice Eiicosmia inidiilata has fallen to the net in a 

 pine wood above Beedale, one specimen in each of two successive 

 years. But a much stranger record is a single Bistmi hirtaria g , ten 

 years ago, in Kaincliti' Woods, which I have worked very thoroughly 

 without a second occurrence. Another moorland species, generally on 

 the lower slopes, is Acidalia fuviata. Mid-June to the end of July is 

 the best time for working moors with their pine and larch plantations. 

 One can combine moors, plantations and dales quite easily in a day's 

 excursion, going up, let us say, Beedale to its head, working east or 

 west across the moors, and coming down another dale to the railway, 

 or through Rainclilf Woods to Scarborough. In the latter half of 

 July Cayton Bay ought to be visited for Giwplws obscuraria, which 

 hides by day in holes and cracks in the boulder clay. UrtJiulitJia 

 (Eubdlia) bipimctaria flies there at the same time. The cliffs are a 

 good hunting ground, and I think it very likely that some of our lost 

 records will be found there again. 



I hope at a later date to deal with the other groups (except the 

 Tineidic). If any lepidopterist decides to come here, I shall be only 

 too glad to place my knowledge at his disposal and, if he so wish, to 

 act as his ouide. 



Aberrations of Argynnis aglaia and some other Notes from the 

 Minehead District. 



By J. F. BIRD. 

 Last season I had the extreme good fortune to capture two 

 splendid aberrations of Aryyimis aylaio : (1) a 3 example of ab. 

 rhaiiotta on June 29th, and (2) a magnificent white $ on July 4th. 

 I can find nothing exactly like the latter described in the magazines. 

 Of the aberrations of this species mentionad, the nearest approach is 

 the "silvery-white" specimen formerly in the Clark collection, which 

 realised £7 10s. at Stevens' {ride Ent., vol. xlii., p. 319), but judging 

 from the illustration of that insect in South's Butterjiies of the British 

 Ixles (pi. 61, fig. 3), my specimen is, in every respect vastly superior. 

 The ground colour is white, slightly tinged with cream ; the hind- 



