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NOTES ON YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA IN 1906.* 
W. HEWETT. 
THE past season has not been a good one for Lepidoptera, and 
Yorkshire Entomologists agree that ‘sugar’ has, with odd 
exceptions, been a failure all the season, and very few of even 
the commonest species have been reported as abundant. 
The most noteworthy records are the following :— 
Mr. Fieldhouse reports the capture of a hermaphrodite 
Fidonia atomarta, with one male, and one female antenna, 
one hind and two fore wings light like the female, and the other 
dark like the male. 
Mrs. Lee, Huddersfield, took a specimen of the variety 
Varleyata of Abraxas grossulariata at large at Huddersfield, 
and Mr. Lee took one Aydraecia petasitis. 
Mr. G. T. Porritt bred a brood of variety Varleyata of Abraxas 
grossulartata, the form breeding absolutely true. He also took 
a black form of /idonta atomaria on Harden Clough Moors, 
Huddersfield, and Tephrosia biundularta at Huddersfield this 
year; this last had not been seen in the district for probably 
forty years. Selenta lunarta, a species which is always a great 
rarity at Huddersfield, was taken by Mr. W. E. L. Wattam. 
Mr. B. Morley, Skelmanthorpe, reports one long succession 
of failures from beginning to end of season, and says it has 
been very difficult to find anything to capture. 
Cloantha solidaginis swarmed at Dunford Bridge at the end 
of August. 
Mr. George Parkin, Wakefield, reports the capture of a 
specimen of Cherocampa celerio, the sharp-winged Hawk Moth 
at Wakefield, taken on the outside of a shop window on 
October 24th last, by Mr, H. Lumb. This specimen is now 
in the collection of Mr. Porritt. He also states that the dark 
variety of Odontopera bidentata is rapidly replacing the type 
form in the Wakefield district, just as the dark variety of 
Amphydasts betularta replaced the type of that species. Mr. 
Parkin also notes the sparrow as feeding on imagines of Arctza 
lubricipeda in his garden, and says sparrows are also par- 
ticularly fond of ‘Yellow Underwings’ (Zrzphena pronuba). 
Mr. Beck, Bradford, records Vanessa cardut on Rombalds 
Moor, September 15th. 
* Being the Report of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, 
Naturalist, 
