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PTEROPHORUS PALUDUM IN YORKSHIRE. 
GEO). ge PORRITT, F.L.S.; 
Huddersfield; President of the Entomological Section, Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union; 
Author of ‘A List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera, etc. 
Ir is with much satisfaction that I record the occurrence of so 
interesting a species as Pterophorus paludum in Yorkshire. When 
collecting on Thorne Waste, in company with Mr. John Harrison, 
of Barnsley, on July 18th last, I boxed a ‘ Plume’ which both I and 
Mr. Harrison failed to recognise. On making a careful examination 
of it last week, I found it agreed very closely with Dorsetshire 
specimens of P. pa/udum in my cabinet ; but as it was both a bigger 
specimen, and also in finer condition, than any in my series, together 
with my doubt as to the likelihood of pa/udum occurring so far 
north as Yorkshire, I at once sent it off to my friend Mr. Sydney 
Webb, of Dover, who is perhaps our best authority on the British 
‘Plumes,’ for his opinion. His reply on returning the specimen was, 
as I had anticipated, ‘Pa/udum, a very fine and large specimen.’ 
Fterophorus paludum has always been considered a very rare species 
in Britain, and for many years seemed to be confined to the 
Cambridgeshire fens, where it was taken very sparingly. For many 
years back, however, it seems to have disappeared even from there, 
and was apparently lost in Britain, until some six years ago the 
Rey. O. Pickard-Cambridge turned it up in Dorsetshire. In 188 
and 1887 a fair number were secured in the new locality, but since 
then it appears to have been very scarce again there, so that its 
advent right on the open part of Thorne Moor is most welcome. 
It is to be hoped, as is likely, that future investigation will prove it 
to be well established there. 
9th Sept., 1891. 
NOTES—BOTANY. 
Saxifraga granulata near Scarborough.—On page 277 of the Sis Me 
* Naturalist,’ it is stated that Saxifraga granulata does not grow in the ne 
> whereas it occurs ngie commonly in several parts 0 the iistg tae ata 
y Ww 
Wahlenbergia hederacea in Bowland, = wads) Yorkshire,—A f 
weeks ago, when walking from Clitheroe to Lanc: , vid. Whitewell and Sykes, 
I was pleased to notice on the open fell- aide, ‘eos to the high road, near 
Hareden h plant. This locality is 
the Ribble verse of West Coan He is not recorded in Mr. > ¢ Flora.’ My 
friend, Mr. A. Wilson, of Bradford, had previously — it in the same 
locality. —Joun HN B, Foccirt, formal September 5th, 
Naturalist, 
