

95 



LEPIDOPTERA J.TJTICEI) IN CLEVELAND 



DURING 1896. 



By T. Ashton Lofthouse. 



Very few insects were added to the list during the past 

 s ason, the wea lier with the exception of June being o a 

 most unfavourahle character, tire results from Sugar and Larv^ 

 beating benrg practically nil. The only exception was tire 

 wea£:" '"" ''"''' '' -gari/almos? any kind of 



oStA^tn '"?;■ ^T^'^'"" ™^^ "^ '^''''"^'^ month near 

 xieat Ay on Dunng the greater part of April I was from 



rr'ta^'lnM '"t'i "^f'^J^./^^i-d ^y n.e las T.niocampa 

 On tt oZa <!} "'^ ypilosoma niendica from local pupL. 

 O the 22nd Saturnia pavonia from larva; taken on Eston 



moos andT- ^^^ ''"^ "^^'^' ^ '''^' this specimen to the 



moors and by its means attracted two or three males. 



. i"f n''^'' specimens of Bombyx rubi were verv 



plentiful flying about rapidly in Lonsdale. Nemeopl2 



Mr Sachse reconls for this month Amphidasys betularia 

 var doubledayana bred from pupa^, taken in Kilton Woods 

 Another specimen of this variety was taken at Lii thoit 

 during the early part of June Spilosoma fuliginosa (Kd on 

 Wood) Noctua plecta, Miana strigilis var. Ithiop re 

 from dug pupa,. Odontopera bidentata, 25th. Zyi^ia fil 

 pendula, larv^, a.id pupa, at Yarm, 31st. Nison^^de Jage^ 

 noticed near the Park, Middlesbrough. ^ 



(im^^^jT^ """': *'^'" "" '^' ^^'^ Hysipetes trifasciata 

 <impluviata), Eupisteria heparata and Eubolia plumbaria all 

 near Great Ayton, 17th, Phisia iota at DinLlale (Ws! 



lituinn 2oTr"' ^^ '''''■ '^'"'^ ''^'''' at Linthoie last 



to P ■ :i . ' ""'i ^t' °''?^°^^ ^^ ^^'' ^''^'^ Club's excursion 



o Plough on and Battersby, Eriogaster lanestris, nest of 



melius'" Tl ;?'""' . .T"'"" T^''^'^' Hyponomeu'ta e^onj 

 melius. The lai-va^ of this moth were very abundant on biixl 

 ■cherry m Ingleby Greenhow Woods. The trees were shm v 

 covered with the webs and completely denSd of "ves'^ 

 Plus,a chrysitis. Great Broughton (W.s'). 2.^th, neai G -ett 

 Ayton, Hepialus hectus, Boarmia repandata, Acidalia fumata 



