268 Field Notes. 



ENTOMOLOaV. 



CucutUa verbasci at Huddersfield. — On July 8th, I 

 collected from a large cultivated Verhascum plant, in my 

 neighbour, Mr, Whiteley Tolson's garden, about two dozen 

 full-fed larvae of Cucullia verbasci. On another large plant, in 

 a different part of the garden, and at a fair distance from 

 the first, was another considerable brood of the same species, 

 but in that case the larvae were only about half grown, some even 

 much smaller than that, so that there must have been at least 

 two female moths in the garden this year. The species has 

 never been recorded from this district before, so far as I know, 

 and it is scarcely likely that so conspicuous and striking a larva 

 feeding exposed and almost gregariously, could have been 

 missed had it been here. The species is common enough in 

 some parts of the county. — Geo. T, Porritt, Elm Lea, Dalton, 

 Huddersfield, July 15th, 1918. 



Euthemonia russula near Skipton. — On the first of 

 July last I took a specimen of Eidhetnonia russula at the foot 

 of Embsay Crag near Skipton, which was a male flying lazily 

 in the sunshine b}^ the side of the boundary wall of the moor. 

 I believe this insect has not previously been recorded for North 

 West Yorks. I also took two specimens of Scoparia atomalis 

 on the 3rd on Blackhills, near Wilsden, which is not included 

 in the list of Yorkshire Lepidoptera by Mr. Porritt, 2nd edition, 

 published in 1904. In most years it is quite common — in 

 some years abundant — in this locality, and it may have been 

 overlooked in many other localities in Yorkshire. Hitherto, 

 or up to recently, it has been considered a Scotch insect only. — 



E. P. BUTTERFIELD. 



Scoparia atonmlis has for a very long time been regarded as a small 

 dark variety of the common S. ambigitalis. We have for many years 

 known it as common in South-west Yorkshire, and are much surprised to 

 find no allusion to the form in the ' Yorkshire List,' as there ought to have 

 been.— G.T.P. 



Corethrn pallida, etc., in Yorkshire. — Whilst unsuccess- 

 fully searching for Anopheline mosquitoes on Austwick Moss 

 during June and July, I saw some pale coloured gnats which on 

 examination turn out to be Corethra pallida F., the most un- 

 common of the genus and easily identified by the brown dots 

 on the legs ; they were in fair numbers but confined to definite 

 pools and had a weaker flight than the Chironomus species, 

 their pale wings in movement giving an impression of a narrow 

 isosceles triangular shape. I also got Corethra plimiicornis 

 F., and at the same time the curious daddy-long-legs Dolicho- 

 peza sylvicola Curt. {Chirothecata Scop.), most difficult to see, 

 save for the long white tarsi. This Mr. A. R. Sanderson first 

 showed to me at Austwick and we also found it in Ravensgill, 

 Pateley Bridge ; he has also taken Corethra larvae many times 

 from the Austwick Moss pools but the perfect insect does not 



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