4 PORRITT : YORKSHIRE MACRO-LEPJDOPTERA IN 1877. 



Species. New Locality. GaptGi: 



Notodonta ziczac ... Barnsley John Harrison. 



Cymatophora fluctuosa Barnsley John Harrison. 



Acronycta leporina ... Barnsley John Harrison. 



Caradrina Morpheus.. Huddersfield ... G. T. Porritt. 



-Cucullia verbasci ... Selby Thomas Foster. 



CucuUia chamomillK.. Leeds Alfred Denny. 



Stilbia anoraaia ... Shipley, Bradford J. W. Carter. 



The more particularly noteworthy of these are : 



Hyria auroraria, taken on the occasion of the Union's 

 visit to Goole Moor, on August 6th, and making only the second 

 locality for the species in Yorkshire. 



Larentia c^siata. York is an out-of-the--.vay place for this, 

 though it abounds in our stony moorland districts. 



Gymatophora fiuctuosa is a good addition to the Barnsley 

 fauna, and is more satisfactory from having been bred from several 

 larvae beaten out of birches. 



Stilbia anomala is perhaps the most interesting of all, as 

 being not only new to Bradford but to the West Pviding, previously 

 having only occurred on our east coast. 



ABUNDANCE OF COLIAS EDUSA. 



In looking over the rarities that our county has produced 

 during the year, the species that stands out pre-eminently before 

 all others, not for its greater rarity, but on account of the interest 

 attaching to it, is undoubtedly Colias Ednsa. So much has been 

 said and written on this, the most extraordinary visitation of th.is 

 species, not only in Yorkshire~ but throughout the whole of 

 Britain, ever remembered by our oldest lepidopterists, (nor can 

 any previous record be found of anything approaching it) that all 

 of us are thoroughly acquainted not only with the particulars and 

 peculiarities of the circumstance, but with the various theories 

 advanced to account for it. It is therefore quite unnecessary to 

 occupy our limited space with it again. Sufifice it to say that the 

 species was observed or taken in every part of the county, and in 

 most cases in localities where it had never been previously known 

 to occur; whilst as to numbers, in one or two instances, single 



Trans.Y.N.U., 1877. Series D. 



