146 Hewett: Notes on Yorkshtre Lepidoptera in 1906. 
haworthit at sugar in his garden, also two or three Anchocelis 
lunosa and a few Epunda lutulenta, also the variety capucina 
of Mirselia oxyacanthe, in the Ayton district : although the type 
is generally common in his garden, has never seen the variety 
there, the place one would expect to find it if smoke has any- 
thing to do with melanism. Noctua depuncta, one or two 
specimens occurred ; a few Vanessa carduz also noticed. Autumn 
larve scarce. 
Mr. Arthur Whitaker of Barnsley says ‘sugar’ a complete 
failure until October set in, when a few of the late species were 
attracted by it. A few Cymatophora fluctuosa were taken in its 
usual habitat in June. A specimen of Sphinx convolvuli was 
found at Hoyland, near Barnsley, early in September. He 
bred a black specimen of Odontopera bidentata from larve 
taken last autumn in Barnsley. The sudden appearance of 
a perfect swarm of Callimorpha jacobee on a waste unculti- 
vated piece of land which he has known well for many years, 
afforded interesting ground for speculation as to how the 
insects reached, or were imported to the place, where he 
had never seen a specimen before. The nearest locality, he 
believes, where it previously occurred is distant somefive miles 
from the field in question ; some fourteen years since the field 
was used for growing grain and other crops, and jacobee 
certainly occurred nowhere near it. Owing to subsidence 
resulting from some shallow colliery workings, the surface 
of the field became too rough to cultivate, and was abandoned ; 
after this it gradually became over-run with ragwort, and 
for many years he had looked upon it as an ideal spot for 
Jjacobee, and wondered if the species would ever become 
established there. He was over the ground often last year, and 
saw no sign of it, and it came as a great surprise to him to find 
the perfect insects there in abundance, early in June this year. 
Mr. Staniland, Doncaster, reports Lobophora hexapterata, 
and Cidaria silaceata at Wadworth in June, Axaztis plagiata, 
Edlington, August, Chestas spartiata, Edenthorpe, October, 
Cucullia umbratica, Edenthorpe, July, Zuo statices, Wheatley 
Wood, Asthena sylvata, Edlington. 
Mr. Thomson, Barnsley, took a dark form of Agriopzs 
aprilina at sugar at Deffer Wood, Barnsley, in October; base 
and centre of top wings almost black, sub-marginal band 
greenish bronze edged with white, outer band black, and hind 
wings perfectly black. 
Naturalist, 
