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frequent occurrence, and is probably to be found wher- 

 ever the species is taken freely. Everingham ! ! {J. 

 Siinijier) ; Grassington {F. Emsley) ; Anlaby, Hull ! in- 

 cluding a few of the van unicolor {W. H. and/! Porter)', 

 Ledsham {F. Emsley); Middlesbrough {T.A.L.); Ripon, 

 including the var. unicolor {T. Meldriirn) ; Skipwith, in- 

 cluding the var. 7inzcolor[C.D.A.'); Glaisdale! ! (/".^.Z,); 

 Great Ayton ! ! (T.A.L.) ; Ormesby (T.A.L.). 



Tethea subtusa W.V. Wheatley Wood, Doncaster 

 (G.T.P.); Sheffield {F. A. Cockayne). 



Euperia fulvago fF. F. = paleacea Fsp. Another species 

 which is rapidly extending its range and becoming more 

 abundant. Thirty years ago, in Britain almost confined 

 to Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire ; in August and 

 September 1880, towards thirty were taken in Wadworth 

 Wood, Doncaster, by Mr. J. N. Young and his friends. 

 ' In 1 88 1 it occurred in Edlington Wood, Doncaster, to 

 Mr. John Harrison ; and in the same year Mr. A. E. Hall 

 recorded it as common in a wood about a mile from 

 Sheffield ; and in subsequent years Mr. H. H. Corbett 

 found it in abundance in Wheatley Wood, Doncaster, 

 By 1900 it had extended its range to DeflFer Wood, 

 Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, where Mr. B. Morley 

 took two in September ; and in the following year 

 (1901) Mr. Morley recorded twenty specimens in the 

 same wood. Four at Sandburn, York, 1903 {S. Walker). 



Cosmia trapezina Z. This is another species which varies 

 exceedingly in the South West Riding, and by careful 

 selection many pretty forms are to be got. I have one, 

 figured in Barrett's "Lepidoptera of the British Islands," 

 taken at sugar in Honley Wood, Huddersfield, by Mr. 

 W. Tunstall, in which the broad central band is uni- 

 formly dark olive-green. 



Cosmia diffinis L. Doncaster in 1891 {A. Paterson). 



