158 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
patentable a tad 
Cirrheedia xerampelina at Beverley in 1893.—Several specimens of this 
exceedingly local moth were taken at sugar at Beverle ig last September, by 
Mr. Chapman, of that town, within sound of the Minster bells.—WILLIAM 
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Occurr f Xanthia aurago in es uth Yorkshire.—Referring to Mr. 
Hewett’s remarks on this species (Nat., p. 116), I have the following note, which 
I copy from the ‘Young Naturalist 2:—* 7 
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— specimen of X. auras? This x 2s was mt cab ara in a sma 
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and by the old resents not looked upon as a rarity.— ALL, Norbury; 
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Mix odia ag wali not a Yorkshire ase: a Correction.—The insect 
taken by Mr. Dan Robinson ott Greetland Moor, and which I named as bagi for 
im, turns out to be, not that species but Pamplusia cnbrahenad a species which 
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It seems a pity that records of new or rare species in critical groups should not 
submitted to well-known and competent authorities before being offered for 
publication —Eps.] 
NOTE—AMPHIBIA., 
The Palmated Newt near aon pores h.—I have to record Lessotriton 
pc which has not bia taken in this district before. Last year Mr. 
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Clarke and Recbucks : — ae Fauna of Yorkshire,’ which, sada is et 
ten or rae elve years old now, the ateteat locality pati where this t occu 
is in the bidipe district. OXLEY GRABHAM, M.A., Croxton Villa, ser 
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NOT. oat ogee ES. 
‘Serpents’ in Lancashire fe Century.—In reading the recently- 
sea eng second volume of Mr. H B. Wheatley’s edition of Peeys Diary 1 find, 
under of February 4th, 1661-2, the following:—‘To Westminster Hall, 
pean bi was cae = rm. Here all the morning, ea at sts tom rd Crew's, 
where Mr. Templer (an ingenius man and a person of honour he seems to be) 
dined; and, ou sing of the nature of serpents, he told us some that in the 
aste plaued of Lancashire do grow to a great bigness, and that do feed upon 
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naturalist of recent years; for - en, according to the 
observer and the observed. Is there an a patric for these creatures in 
Lancashire ?—-L. Petty, Ulverston, January 2nd, 1894. 
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