264 Field Notes. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Cleveland Lepidoptera. — On 5th July 1902 I took a few 

 specimens of Aspilates strigillaria, hitherto unrecorded for the 

 district, on the heathery slopes of the great glacial overflow 

 valley, Ewe Crag" Slack, Danby. Two or three larvae oi A gratis 

 agathina were noted on Ingleby Moor on 21st June. I found 

 three fine specimens of Seleiiia lunaria at rest on g"rass-stalks in 

 hedg"es at Ingleby, Ayton, and Acklam during" June, and as 

 illustrating the backward season Hepialtis hvniuli was on the 

 wing, in Middlesbrough Park, on i8th August, my previous 

 latest date being 5th July 1899. On the few occasions I went 

 sugaring hardly anything turned up. — Frank Elgee, Middles- 

 brough, 28th April 1903. 



Liparis salicis near Selby. — When collecting at Bishop's 

 Wood, with the Rev. C. D. Ash, of Skipwith, on Saturday, 6th 

 June, we picked off several larvee oi Liparis salicis from poplar. 

 I know of no previous record of its occurrence there, though 

 with so much poplar in the wood it is natural enough to expect 

 it. On the other hand, the wood has been so well worked for 

 probably forty years or more, it would be strange for so con- 

 spicuous a species to have been missed for so long if it existed. 

 There is an old record for the species at Selby (1864), but I 

 know of no other for the vicinity until this. — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Huddersfield, 8th June 1903. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Otiorhynchus muscorum Bris. near Carlisle. — On 28th 



March this year I took a single specimen of this Weevil from 



moss growing in a hedge bottom about three miles from this 



city, and a week later a supplementary pair in the same locality. 



This is a new record for Cumberland. — J as. Murray, Carlisle, 



27th May 1903. 



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FLOWERING PLANTS. 

 Botanical Notes at Grantham. — On the occasion of the 

 excursion of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union to Grantham, 

 30th July 1902, a full list of the flora was taken as usual, but 

 it was rather disappointing, for Trigoiiella pjirptwasciiis and 

 Hypochoeris 7naculata, two of the rarest species of this neigh- 

 bourhood, were not seen. Thesitim, however, was flourishing 

 on the old spot on the High Dyke at Fulbeck. Silene noctiflora 

 was rather out of place at Caythorpe on the limestone, and must 



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