62 Field Notes. 



LEPIDOPTERA, 



Convolvulus Hawkmoth at Barlby. — A specimen of the 

 Convolvulus Hawkmoth {Sphitix convohmli) was taken at Barlby, 

 near Selby, September 1901, and is now in the Selby Museum, 

 where I have seen it. — W. Hewett, York, 6th January 1903. 



Privet Hawkmoth. — A pupa of the Privet Hawkmoth (^/•/z/^a- 

 ligustri) — one of a number received from Suffolk in the autumn 

 of 1901, and due to emerge in June 1902, was alive on 12th 

 October 1902 and on 3rd January 1903. The pupa is still alive 

 and healthy. This is a very unusual occurrence. — W. Hewett, 

 York, 6th January 1903. 



Sphinx pinastri at Middlesbrough. — I recently had the 

 opportunity of examining a specimen of this Hawkmoth that 

 had been taken in a garden at Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, in 

 1900. The insect was not in very good condition, the edges of 

 the wings being damaged and the colouring faded. It would 

 probably either be an immigrant or have come into port with 

 some ship, Middlesbrough being within easy distance of the 

 sea, and the garden in which it was taken only being some 

 three miles from the docks. — T. Ashton Lofthouse, Middles- 

 brough, 1 2th January 1903. 



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COLEOPTERA. 

 Miccotrogus picirostris, F., in Cumberland. —On the ist 



of July last I took a single specimen of this rare Weevil by 

 general sweeping in Gelt Woods. So far as I am aware there 

 is no record from this county. According to Fowler it is very 

 rare in the north. — Jas. Murray, Carlisle, 27th December 1902. 



Coleoptera near Carlisle in 1902. — The year 1902 has 

 been a poor one for beetles, but, notwithstanding, some good 

 things have been found. Bemhidiiun femoratiim turned up on 

 the Petteril on 12th April and i ith October ; Chrysomela fastuosa, 

 sitting on a stone in Gelt Woods, loth May ; Podabnis alpinus, 

 near Wreay, 7th June. At Orton on 14th June occurred Praso- 

 curis aucta, Telephorus figuratus (commonly), and Dasytes 

 plumbeo-niger. In the bed of the river Irthing, near Gilsland, 

 on 2nd July, I took a specimen of ^-Egialia sahiileti. Among 

 gravel on the Gelt on 9th August I took several specimens of 

 Homalota currax and Tachytisa lunbraticn, and in grass tufts by 

 the Petteril on nth October a number of MelcDiophtlialma fuscula. 

 Jas. Murray, Carlisle, 27th December 1902. 



Naturalist, 



