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CLEVELAND LEPIDOPTERA IN 1905. 

 By T. Ashton Lofthouse, F.E.S. 



*Denotes Species recorded in our Proceedings for first time. 



The conditions prevailing during the year were, on the whole, 

 more favourable for insects than for some years previously. The 

 early spring moths ( P. pedaria and II. leucophearia) were noticed 

 about the middle of February ; a fair number of insects occurred 

 on the " Sallows " in April ; Spring Lance were fairly abundant 

 in April and May ; and Sugaring proved attractive at the end of 

 June and early in July, but during August and the autumn 

 months was most unproductive. 



The season proved favourable for the smaller moths, and of 

 these I have added a good many new species to our local list, one 

 of them being an addition to the Yorkshire list, and one or two 

 others are insects for which there are only one or two previous 

 Yorkshire records. 



Owing, probably, to the warmer weather prevailing during the 

 summer, N. dictma was bred on September 1st from Larva, taken 

 in July, and one or two Eupisteria obhterata were bred as a second 

 brood in September. The following insects also occurred as a 

 second brood at sugar in September : — M. hranicm, N. plecta, and 

 H. oleracea, in addition to A. segelum, A. suffusa, etc. 



NOCTU/E. Cymatophora duplaris. Fairly common at 

 sugar at Kildale, mostly dark forms. 



Xylophasia hepatica. Noticed on sugar in garden at 

 Linthorpe. 



Apamea unanimis. Noticed on sugar in garden at 

 Linthorpe, and at Eedcar. 



*Celaena haworthii. Worn specimen taken in September 

 at Glaisdale. A single specimen on sugar in garden, Linthorpe, 

 Middlesbrough, in 1906. 



Noctua stigmatica. A few specimens taken at sugar near 

 Kildale. 



Calocampa vetusta. Single specimen taken at sugar at 

 Linthorpe, on September 23rd. 



Calocampa solidaginis. Specimen taken at sugar in 

 garden, at Linthorpe, on September 1st. 



