106 Yorkshire Entomology in 1914. 
Judging from the reports submitted by various members, 
the season, generally, has not been a good one for lepidoptera, 
with a few exceptions species have not appeared commonly. 
Light has not attracted much, and ‘sugar,’ although never a 
great attraction, has never been a failure until the latter part 
of the season, many late autumn species were entirely absent. 
Spring larve were common enough, Agvotis agathina and 
Xanthia citrago very common; about a score Xanthia aurago 
larve were found in sycamore buds in Deffer Wood, where 
the species must now be considered established. 
The exceptions to the general paucity of the perfect insects 
were the abundance of Brephos parthemias, Ewpithecia castigata, 
and its black variety, and Melanippe hastata in the Wakefield 
district, the last also appeared in some numbers at Edlington. 
In birch woods in the West Riding Orthosia suspecta was very 
common at the end of July. On the moors in the West Riding 
during August and September the following species appeared 
in vast numbers, Cidaria populata, C. testata (of which many 
were of an unicolorous purple form), Oporabia filigrammaria, 
Celena haworthu, Hypsipetes sordidata in great variety, with 
many red forms, Cloantha solidaginis swarmed on the flowers 
of Juncus, six in one instance were noticed feeding on one 
flower head. 
Pupe of Hydrecia petasitis were dug freely from about the 
roots of butterburr in the Hudderfield district in the middle of 
August. 
Acronycta alni, A. leporina, and Cymatophora fluctuosa, 
were taken during June in the Wakefield district. 
Melanism has not been a pronounced feature of the year. 
Dry seasons seem to arrest the progress of this phenomenon. 
Such species as Agvotis agathina, Boarmia repandata and 
Cleoceris viminalis in the West Riding have practically become 
entirely melanic races, but they did not appear as intensely 
black as in previous years. Such species as Acronycta pst, 
A. rumicis, Polia chi, Seodiona belgiaria, Ematurga atomaria 
and Xylophasia polyodon, all of which usually have a good 
sprinkling of black or very dark specimens amongst them, 
this season have not given the same proportion of melanism 
either in numbers or intensity. With Polza chi even the variety 
olivacea was scarce. 
Mr. G. T. Porritt reports that he found the Polia flavocincta 
at Bridlington to be quite the ordinary pale type, and not of 
the dark form which alone seems to occur in South-West 
Yorkshire. He also has an interesting notice of the abundance 
of Pyrameis cardui at Bridlington, in the ‘ Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine’ of November, 1914, to which reference 
should be made. 
Dr. G. W. K. Crosland took Tinea fulvimitrella in Lepton 
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