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occurs ill many places on the Durham coast where Helianthenium is abundant. — 

 Geo. B. Walsh, 166, Bedo-Burn Road, Jarrow-on-Tyne : Sept. 14,th, 1915. 



Abundance of Hermaeophaija mercurialis F., near Oxford. — This Halticid is 

 sufficiently common in all the woods in this district where its food-plant grows, 

 but this year it has appeared in quite unusual abundance. Yesterday at Wytham 

 Park, Berks, in a somewhat open glade, where the undergrowth had recently been 

 cleared, I found the once luxuriant Mercurialis pereyinis for many square yards 

 together reduced to bare stalks and brown skeleton leaves, while half-a-dozen 

 strokes of the sweeping-net brought up quite a handful of the pretty blue 

 Hermaeophaga. — James J. Walker, Oxford: September 16th, 1915. 



Carabus arvensis in Yorkshire : West Biding. — A short time ago while looking 

 through a collection of local insects taken by Mr. B. Morley of Skelmanthorpe, 

 near Huddersfield, I noticed a specimen of this uncommon Carabus. It was 

 taken at Birdsedge, on May 3rd, 1914, and is the only record I know of the 

 occvirrciice of this species in the southern division of the West Riding. There 

 are, indeed, but iew records for Yorkshire ; near Scarborough, Strensall Common, 

 and Ingieton being all the localities previously noted. This new record for an 

 additional locality, far removed from any of the others, is therefore extremely 

 interesting. — E. G. Bayford, 2, Rockingham Street, Barnsley : August 21st, 1915. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Yorkshire : West Ridiiig. — On the I7th inst. a fine 

 example of this species was brought to me. It had been fovmd at rest on some 

 iron in a foundry yard in Barnsley. — E. G. Bayford. 



Larentia flavicinctata and Emrnelesia miiiorata (ericetata) , Sfc, at Grassing- 

 ton-in-Wharfedale. — I spent a few days at Grassington the first week in August, 

 from the 1st to the 7th, and, although the weather was showery, I met with 

 some interesting things. The first two or three days were spent in the woods. 

 Here Veyiusia cambrica, Lycaena astrarche, and Phothedes captiuncula were 

 getting worn and nearly over, while Erebia blandi7ia was only just emerging ; 

 by the middle of the week the males were plentifid but females were scarce, and 

 up to the end of the week I only took five. 



August 7th was too dull for anything to fly in the wood ; so a trial of the 

 rocky terraces high up on the moor was made. Among the large masses of rock 

 several Gnophos obscurata turned up with some Melanippe galiata, and two small 

 " rivulets" which, on comparison with my Scotch insects, proved to be Emrnelesia 

 minorata. On the grassy slopes two Stilbia anomala flew up and were secured. 



In a rocky gorge by the side of a stream, where high walls of rock rose 

 abruptly, a good many insects were found, chiefly Larentia olivata and L. flavi- 

 cinctata. They flew off rapidly on my approach, and were very difficult to net. 

 The latter were considerably worn, much past their best. Their habits were much 

 like those of L. caesiata, and they delighted to rest in crevices of the rock. Very 

 few females were taken, probal)ly they did not fly as freely as the males, and it 

 was almost impossible to see them, especially where the rocks were covered with 



