PORRITT: YORKSHIRE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN 1877 9 



lepidopterists take but little trouble in working for the various 

 species. 



Scoparia pallida has been taken at York by Mr. Prest. 



Scoparia cembrse svrarraed in thousands in my field in July 

 and August; they v\-ere very variable, too, some being of a very 

 pale bone color and with scarcely any markings, though perfectly 

 fresh ; others being of the very dark variety known as Scotica, of 

 which I took five or six, with every shade between these two ex- 

 tremes, whilst the markings in many cases were most distinct and 

 beautiful. 



Whilst among the Pyrales it. may be worth while recording 

 in our " Transactions " that the first published description of the 

 larva of Scopuia luteaiis is that which appeared in the 

 ''Entomologists' Monthly Magazine" of November 1877, from a 

 larva I had the pleasure of describing ; found on a dock leaf near 

 my house. 



VARIETIES, ETC. 



Our county has sustained its reputation for varieties, several 

 extraordinary and interesting forms having been taken or bred. 

 As usual in Yorkshire, most of the specimens shew a decided 

 melanochroic tendency, whilst one shews an equally decided in- 

 clination to the opposite direction of leucochroism, which although 

 perhaps not so good as a variety, is much more interesting as a 

 Yorkshire specimen. This is a very pale buff-colored Chortobius 

 Pamphilus from Bradford, and now I believe in the possession of 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Huddersfield. The others include a very 

 dark and peculiar Vanessa urticce, also from Bradford; a most 

 beautiful female of Arctia mendica in which the black spots are 

 confluent. This form occasionally crops up in A. lubricipeda and 

 A. inentliastri, but we never before saAV it in nie?idica. This also 

 was bred at Bradford. A very peculiar Epione vespertaria was 

 taken at York; a beautiful olive Phigalia pilosaria taken at 

 Harrogate by Mr. H. Sims, of Wakefield ; an almost black Polia 

 flavocincta from Bradford; &c., with any number of black 

 Amphydasis betularia (the var. Doubledayaria) all over 

 the county as usual. 



