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XVLOPHASIA ZOLLIKOFERI 

 AT MIDDLESBROUGH: 



ANOTHER ADDITION TO THE YORKSHIRE LIST. 



T. ASHTON LOFTHOUSE, F.E.S., 

 fJnthorpe, Middlexbroiigh. 



It being- fine and mild in the early part of Saturday, 26th Sept. 

 last, and it being- my intention to be from home during the 

 afternoon, I left instructions for 'sugar' to be put on u few- 

 posts and stems of trees in the garden at Linthorpe, Middles- 

 brough. When I arrived home in the evening I examined it 

 and took a noctua off which I could not make out from anything 

 ift my collection or from any of the works on Lepidoptera at my 

 disposal. After taking it off the setting-board I sent it through 

 to my friend Mr. G. T. Porritt, who, after examining it and 

 comparing- it with insects in his collection, was unable to deter- 

 mine it, but he suggested it might be Xylophasia sollikofcri, 

 and he advised me to send it to Mr. C. G. Barrett for 

 determination. Mr. Barrett, after examining it, was uncertain 

 as to the species, and he kindly took it to South Kensington 

 Museum, and he along with Sir George Hampson, Bart., com- 

 pared it with the European Noctuids in that collection, with 

 the result that they pronounce it to be Xylophasia zollikoferi, 

 a species of which Mr. Barrett says, ' There is one certain 

 previous British specimen in Mr. Doubleday's collection in 

 Bethnal Green Museum, and it is said one other.' It is perhaps 

 worthy of note that the insect was taken in the latter part of the 

 week in which the invasion of P'atiessa cardui occurred in this 

 district, along with other parts of the east coast, some of them 

 being seen in my garden. 



HYMENOPTERA. 

 Camponotus herculaneus at Hull.— In September 1902 

 a specimen of this large ant was taken on the Western Dock 

 Reservation at Hull. This waste ground is made up of sweep- 

 ings from the various Hull Docks, and, consequently, many 

 animals and plants are found upon it which have been brought 

 to this country with cargo. The above-named specimen is an 

 addition to the British list, but, as explained, it has doubtless 

 been brought into this country by shipping. — T. Stainforth, 

 The Museum, Hull. 



Naturalist, 



