30 PORRITT : LIST OF YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA. 



Others have since been bred. Mr. J. Varley used to breed 

 a form having transparent wings from larvae found in the 

 Huddersfield district. _ 



Odonestis potatoria L. Generally distributed throughout 

 the county, and in many places very abundant. 



Lasiocampa quercifolia L. I can only find records of 

 three specimens : one believed by Mr. Prest to have been 

 taken at Askham Bog; one near Sheffield (^Rev. F. W. 

 Hope, " Stephens' Illustrations ") ; and one at Wakefield 

 {Mr. Marson, Nat., N. S., iii. y^). 



Lasiocampa ilicifolia L. The moors near Sheffield and 

 Ripon were formerly well-known localities for this scarce 

 species, but it has not been taken there (nor anywhere 

 else) now for some years. Lord Walsingham informs me 

 that his collector, Mr. Thomas Eedle, believes he saw it on 

 his moors at Blubberhouses in 1882, but failed to secure it. 

 His lordship says he has long thought the locality a most 

 likely one for the species, so perhaps it may yet turn up 

 there. Mr. A. Doncaster records the species from Sheffield, 

 and Messrs. W. Prest, Lickley, and Meldrum from Ripon 

 {Entom., xi. 104, Ent. W. Int., viii. 51, and Ent. W. 

 Int., June 8, 1861, v. 75). 



Saturnia carpini Bork. Abundant on all the heaths through- 

 out the county. 



Bradford!! (/. W.C.) ; Halifax!! {G.T.P.) ; Horton-in- 

 Ribblesdale {W.E.C) ; Huddersfield!! {G.T.F.); Ilkley 

 {A. Denny); Leeds {E.B.) ; Otley Chevin {/.W.T.); 

 Pateley Bridge !! ( W.D.F.) ; Penistone {/.H.); Richmond 

 {G.P.H. and J. Sang); Ripon (Z! Meldrum); Scar- 

 borough!! {J.H.R.); Selby {T.F. zxi^R.H.); Sheffield 

 {A.D.); Strensall Common! (W.E.C.); Thorne (If. F. 

 Parsons) ; Wakefield (W.T.); Whitby !! ( W.E.C.). 



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