HEWETT : YORKSRIRE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN 1S97. I77 



Epione paralellaria (vespertaria). Images fairly common, 

 July 27, also larvae obtained, Sandburn {R.D.) ; larvce 

 obtained {CD. A. and .S. W.) ; images common ( JV.H. and 

 JM.). Mr. G. T. Porritt, in his List of Yorkshire Lepi- 

 doptera, says : ' Sandburn, about six miles from York, is 

 now the only British habitat for this pretty species.' I have 

 taken specimens on various parts of Strensall Common, 

 which is situate close to Sandburn Common. I have also 

 taken it on Rawdons Common, on the left-hand side of 

 Towthorpe Lane, fully a mile from Sandburn Common. 

 Strensall is on the right-hand side of Towthorpe Lane going 

 in the direction of Strensall Common. 



Mr. G. Bolam, of Berwick-on-Tweed, in the February 

 (1897) number of The Entojiiologist, records having cap- 

 tured a female on Newham Bog in North Northumberland 

 on August 20, 1890 ; also captured at Learmouth Bog on 

 July 30, 1863. Learmouth is eighteen miles from Newham 

 and a mile from the Scottish border. 



I have also the extreme pleasure of being able to record 

 this species for the first time for Scotland. 



My friend, Mr. W. Renton, of Hawick, Roxburghshire, 

 captured on the 26th August, 1897, one male and two 

 female specimens in Adderston-Lea Moss, situate four 

 miles from Hawick. These specimens were sent me for 

 verification ; Mr. Renton has since taken the species fairly 

 commonly each season in the same locality. In May, 1898, 

 in company with Mr. Renton, I visited the Moss. It is a 

 most likely place for E. vespertaria to occur, and the food 

 plant, dwarf sallow, is abundant. 



Epione apiciaria. At light, Everingham {/.S.) ; Askham 

 Bogs, July 23 {R.D. and S. IV.) ; Sandburn Common 

 {W.H.); Stanley {W.G.C.). 



Venilia macularla. Grassington {KB. znd/.B.). 



Metrocampa margaritaria. One very green specimen 

 Middlesbrough {T.A.L.) ; Halifax ( W.L.C.). 



