PORRlTT : YORKSHIRE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN 1877. f 



A fine Acheron-tia Atropos was taken at York, September 

 14th, by ]\Ir. C. D. Wolstenholme. One was taken at Yeadon 

 and is now in the Leeds Naturalists' Club's local collection. 



Of Sphinx convolvuli we have four occurrences, viz.: — a 

 specimen taken by a boy, at rest on a tree at Heaton, near Bradford, 

 recorded by Mr. J. W. Carter; a specimen at York ; one at 

 Rothwell by Mr. Charles Smethurst ; and lastly a full grown larva 

 at Barnsley was brought to Mr. John Harrison. 



Of Sphinx ligustri (which, although a common southern 

 moth, is scarce in the north), two larvae were found at York by 

 Mr. Ripley. 



The 25th of October produced our greatest rarity for the 

 year, in two examples of Deiopeia pulchella seen on the wing in 

 stubble fields on the east coast by Mr. Peter Inchbald, of Hov- 

 ingham, York; may this bright moth turn up more abundantly to 

 gladden our eyes in future autumns ! 



Notwithstanding the bad season, about an average number of 

 Acronycta aini have been secured, namely five, four of them in 

 the larval state, the other an imago. Of these, three have fallen to 

 our York friends — one to Mr. R. Cook, one to Mr. Stewart, and 

 one (the imago) to Mr. Inchbald on June 27th, The two other 

 larva; were both found at Wakefield; the first on September 9th, 

 by Mr. William Talbot's son, the second a few days later, on a 

 sycamore tree, by Mr. A. Hall. 



NOTICEABLE RECORDS. 



Of other species, which though not rare may be worthy of 

 mention, as showing the distribution of species in Yorkshire : — 



Nudaria senex is recorded from York, 

 Liparis monacha from Bishop's Wood, by Mr. Thos. Foster. 

 Orgy la gonostigma from the same locality. 

 Epione vespertaria at York, as usual. 

 Nyssia hispidaria was found near York early in March by 

 Mr. Inchbald. 



Boarmia roboraria at Bishop's Wood, by Mr. Thos. Foster, 



