PORRITT : YORKSHIRE ^^lACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN 1877. 



collectors secured in a few days perhaps as many as had ever 



been previously taken in the county altogether! 



We had tv\-o distinct broods: the first appearing at the very 



beginning of June, and continuing right through the month, the 



second and more numerous one being on the wing in August and 



September. Both broods occurred in profuse abundance in the 



southern counties of England, notably the second brood, which 



in many localities actually flew in myriads, and many clover fields 



and railway embankments must have had quite a golden appearance 



from the thousands of Edma flitting about them. There is little 



doubt that our county's first brood were. stragglers from the South, 



though it certainly is not a little singular that they should be 



observed here as early — on the same day in fact — -as they were 



first noticed there. Probably many of the second brood reached 



us in the same manner, though from their abundance and 



freshness it is more than probable that some had been bred with 



us. Our climate generally, however, is such that we dare not 



hope they have established themselves. The variety Helice was 



apparently not observed in the first brood, but several v/ere taken 



from, the second. The following list' is given in chronological 



order as near as can be obtained : — ■ 



No. 



Date. 



Locality, 



June 3 ! Huclderstield 



„ I Scarborough . . , 



,, I Ariliington ... 



,, ! Huddersfielcl .. 



,, ' Upper Wortley, Lee 



9 'Scarborough 



ds 



June 



Batley 



II 



11 i iManningham 



16 

 16 



June 18 



Goole 



Leeds 



Bradford 



Wakefield ... 



Leeds 



Middlestown ... 



Wath 



Leeds 



Kirkheatoii 



Huddersfield ... 



Meanv.-Qcd 



Armitage Bridge 



Ukley 



Leeds 



of Speci- 

 mens, 



One ... 



One ... 

 ! One? ., 

 ! One ... 



One ... 



One?.. 



One ... 



One ... 



One ... 



One ... 



Several 



One ... 



Two ... 



One ... 



One ... 



One ... 



One ... 



Several 



One ... 



One ... 



One .. 



One .. 



By v\'hom Captured, 

 Observed, or Recorded. 



S. L. Mosley 



William Robinson 



PL Bendelack Hewetson 



John Conacher, jun. 



Thomas Benn 



William Robinson 



Oscar Wildsmiih 



W. H. Keeton 



H. Franklin Parsons 



— Abbott, jun. 



J. W. Carter 



John Spurling and H. Sims 



Edward E, Prince 



George Jackson 



Dr, Payne 



John Wm. Taylor 



Richard Jessop 



G. T, Porritt 



W. E. Clarke 



Rev. G. C. B. Madden 



Bernard Hartley 



Wm. Denison Roebuck 



