YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS* UNION. 85 



YOEKSHIEE MACEO-LEPIDOPTERA in 1880. 



By G. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., Huddersfield, 

 President of the Entomological Section, 1880. 



The lepidopterists of our county will I think be fully agreed, 

 that the season of 1880 was a decided improvement on the several 

 years preceding it ; but even then it has been, taking the county 

 through, by no means what it should have been ; for in some 

 parts — of the West Riding more particularly — complaint has still 

 been loud that " there are no moths to be found." On the other 

 hand Mr. Prest, writing from York on August 20th, said " I have 

 taken more insects this year than any season I have collected." 



The feature of the year has been the occurrence in unusual 

 numbers of Apleda occulta in different parts of the county, 

 frequently in quite new districts, or else in almost every case in 

 places where it had not been seen for many years before. 

 Previously indeed it had been a great rarity with us, but last 

 August Mr. Prest took at Sandburn near York, as many in one 

 night as probably had ever occurred in the county in a whole 

 season before. 



The season has been followed by a terribly severe winter, 

 one of what our grandfathers term " the old-fashioned sort," 

 though even they all confess to never having experienced its like. 

 We seem to have been ice and snow-bound for months ; and 

 although April is now on us again, it is as cold as it was in 

 January. After it we are all expecting a feally good season, 

 indeed there seems to be a conviction in everybody's mind that 

 such will be the case. May it prove so. 



SPECIES NEW TO THE COUNTY. 



After two years without, another species has been added to 



