264 THE ENTOMOLOGIST* 



Heliothis peltigera, &c., in Yorkshire. — Several days ago 

 my friend Mr. W. E. Clarke, of Leeds, sent me a moth to identify, 

 which he had taken on the 6th of the present month (Septemher) 

 at Kilnsea, in Holderness. It was with great pleasure I at once 

 saw it was a well-marked specimen of Heliothis peltigei'a, a 

 species quite new to the county of Yorkshire ; and, so far as I 

 know, not previously recorded as occurring so far north in 

 Britain. Mr. Clarke found the specimen at rest on the sand- 

 hills, and it had evidently not flown since its emergence from the 

 pupa. On August 31st I found larvae of its commoner relative, 

 H. marginata, in great abundance on Ononis arvensis, on the 

 cliffs, about four miles north of Scarborough. On August 22nd 

 a fine example of Sphinx convolvuU was taken, by Mr. Henry 

 Stevenson, in the town at Huddersfield. — Geo. T. Porritt; 

 Huddersfield, September 14, 1885. 



Ochsenheimeria vacculella in Epping Forest. — On August 

 3rd (Bank Holiday) I made a short journey to the Forest, and 

 while there I thought I would look over the bole of an oak on 

 which I had several times taken Laverna stephensiella. While 

 closely examining the bark I observed, deep in a crevice, what 

 appeared to be an insect (for at rest they so closely resemble in 

 colour the bark as to be hardly recognisable), which, on being 

 touched, moved further in. I cut away the bark and inserted a 

 small pill-box, and endeavoured with a grass-stem to work the 

 insect into the box ; and, when I had all but secured my prize, 

 it crept into a small hole from which some coleopterous insect 

 had emerged and disappeared. On removing some web I dis- 

 covered tw^o others, but, as it was impossible to reach them with 

 a box, I tried to work them out with grass-stems, but on being 

 brought near the surface they skipped ofl' and were lost. As 

 their habits were so different from that of 0. hirdella, which I 

 had met with at Southend by sweeping grass, I thought they 

 might prove to be the rare 0. vacculella, and felt particularly 

 anxious to make a captive. I worked at the tree for a couple of 

 hours, and was rewarded with half a dozen specimens. These I 

 forwarded to Mr. Stainton, who, with his usual kindness, named 

 the specimens for me. The principal characters of 0. vacculella 

 are the whitish base of the posterior wings, and the antennae 

 perfectly simple, with no erect scales. — William Machin; 29, 

 Carlton Road, Carlton Square, E. 



