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OCCURRENCE OF LAPMYGMA EXIGUA 

 NEAR KEIGHLEY: 



AN ADDITION TO THE YORKSHIRE FAUNA. 



THOMAS FIELDHOUSE, 

 Sradfoni. 



On 22nd September last in the Keighley (Yorkshire) district, 

 whilst searching- with my lamp for the female of Scotosia 

 dubitata, my attention was attracted by a small Noctua flyings 

 at the light. I secured eig-ht specimens, which, on examination, 

 I thought to be Laphygmn exigiia. I sent specimens to Mr. 

 J. W. Carter, Bradford, and to Mr. G. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, 

 who confirmed mv conclusion. 



Mr. Fieldhouse sent me for examination three of the speci- 

 mens referred to in the foregoing, whilst still on the setting 

 boards, and there is no doubt whatever as to their identity. 

 The moth has always been regarded in Britain as one of our 

 greatest rarities, and confined almost exclusively to the coast 

 of the south of England. Indeed, prior to these specimens of 

 Mr. Fieldhouse's only three examples appear to have been 

 recorded north of the London district — two in Pembrokeshire 

 and one at Liverpool. — G. T. P. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Death's Head Hawk Moth near Skelmanthorpe. — \ fine 

 male Death's Head Hawk Moth {Achcrontiti iitropos) was caught 

 in a house in the village of Scissett, in this township, on 26th 

 September. This is the first occurrence of this species in the 

 neighbourhood of Skelmanthorpe in my experience. — B. Morley, 

 Skelmanthorpe, ist October 1903. 



Vanessa cardui at Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire. — While 

 at Sutton-on-Sea from 24th September to the ist October I was 

 surprised to see scores of specimens of the Painted Lady ( Vanessa 

 cardiii) about the shore and neighbouring villages. Many of the 

 specimens were absolutely perfect, as if freshly escaped from the 

 pupa, while others were rubbed as if from a Continental flight. 

 I never saw a specimen near a plant of Cm'cus lanceolatus, on which 

 the larva and imago feed, but the thistle was fairly rare and 

 past honey-producing. The plant most frequently visited was 

 Leoiitodon aiitnmnalis, in two cases only Hypochceri's radicata. — 

 E. Adrian Woodruffe Peacock, Cadney, Brigg, 5th Oct. 1903. 



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