86 PORRITT : YORKSHIRE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN 1880. 



the county list, and a very ihteresting one, viz. : — 

 Mamestra abjecta. 

 It is thus announced by Mr. N. F. Dobree of Beverley, in 

 the " Naturalist " of November last : — " A Yorkshire rarity, I 

 believe, is Mamestra abjecta, of which I took eleven at the mouth 

 of the Humber in August this year, and to my certain knowledge 

 missed three more. From the locality I judge they may be 

 always found there. On the same occasion I took the finest 

 series of Agrotis cursoria I have ever seen. Both these and 

 RipcE. are much darker in Yorkshire than are southern specimens. 



NEW LOCALITIES. 



There are only thirteen, the smallest number since the 

 record of them was commenced in the Transactions. 



New Localities. 



.York 



.York 



.Bradford ... ... 



Species. 

 Sesta culicifoj'uiis 

 Zeuzera cesculi 

 Venilia maculata 



Ennomos angularia Bradford 



Asihena sylvata . . . Barnsley 



Larentia ruficinctata Bradford 



Thyatira batis ...Saltaire, Bradford 



Xanihia silago . . . Bradford 



Aplecta occulta ...Barnsley 



Recorder. 

 ..W. Brest. 

 ,..W. Brest. 

 ...J. W. Carter. 

 ...J. W. Carter. 

 ...John Harrison. 

 ...J. W. Carter. 

 ...Wm. Wardman. 

 ...J. W. Carter. 

 ...W. E. Brady. 

 . Shipley Glen,Bradford Messrs. Wardman and 



Catocala fraxini 



...Hull ... 



...Whitby 



..Barnsley 



Dawson. 

 ...N. F. Dobree. 

 ...C. Dashwood Snell. 

 ...Dr. White. 



RARITIES. IN 1660. 



Four species seem entitled to a position under this heading. 

 Of the grand butterfly, Vanessa Antiopa, four examples have 

 been noticed — two at York, and two at Bradford. Of the former 

 pair, the first was taken on September 17th by Mr. Skilbeck, in a 



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