210 FIELD NOTES. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
East Yorkshire Lepidoptera.—In the Entomologist’s Record 
for April last, is @ paper by MrA.S. Wetley, sMeAyeenruicn, 
‘Lepidoptera round about Scarborough.’ The lepidopterous 
fauna of Scarborough, has, of course, been well-known for many 
years, but fortunately Mr. Tetley has extended his excursions 
a good deal further afield, with the result that we get some very 
interesting records. Perhaps the most valuable is the con- 
firmation of the old record of Nola strigula, which we are told 
still occurs in Raincliff Woods, Scarborough. This species 
- was included in the ‘ List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera’ in 1883, 
but the record seemed so doubtful that in the preface to the 
‘Supplement’ to that List, it was included with five other 
species which it seemed desirable to delete. Then of Melanargia 
galathea Mr. Tetley tells us he first found the species on the 
Wolds near Cowlain in 1902, and that it was really abundant 
there in 1914. Other noteworthy records include Lycena 
agestis which swarms on the Wolds near Pickering ; Thecla 
W-album, Sleightondale, to the west of Pickering ; Nemeobius 
lucina, Helmsley ; Chortobius davus, in two places on the 
moors in the East Riding ; Pyrocris statices ‘ in the marshes at 
Seamer’; Pyrocris geryon, “common on Haugh Rigg, near 
Pickering’; Chelonia plantaginis, common on the moors of 
the East Riding; the three species, Tapinostola elymi1, Mam- 
estra albicolon, and Agrotis ripe, all ‘on a patch of sandhills 
some three miles south of Bridlington, where once stood the 
village of Auburn,’ all of them as Yorkshire species only 
previously recorded from Spurn; Epunda lutulenta, on the 
coast ; Toxocampa pastimum, Sledmere and Pickering ; Plusia 
interrogationis, common on the moors near Ravenscar, etc. 
Scotosia undulata, two specimens in a pine wood above Beedale. 
—GeEO. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, May, 3rd, rg15. 
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BIRDS. 
Grasshopper Warbler at Mytholmroyd.—Apparently the 
first appearance of this species in this district occurred on a 
swampy piece of ground just off the main road up the Cragg 
valley, Mythoimroyd, on April 29th. It was seen by Mr. 
C. J. Dugdale, who informed me of it on May 8th, on which 
evening I listened to its continuous trill from 8-30 to 8-45 p.m. 
On the following night the bird uttered its first few notes at 
8 o'clock, and a short time afterwards was in full song. I 
saw it several times on this occasion. It appears to spend 
all its time in two bushes; when flushed from the one it flew 
to the other, and vice versa.* Thomas Allis mentioned the 
* Mr. Dugdale also informs me that he saw a tern (species ?) consorting 
with black headed gulls in the Calder at Greenhill, Mytholmroyd, on May 
6th. This is also an unusual occurrence here. 
Naturalist, 
