336 NOTES—LEPIDOPTERA AND MAMMALIA. 
NOTES—LEPIDOPTERA. 
~_ atropos at Huddersfield.—A few days ago Mr. Fitton brought 
rigs of this insect, found toad! weeks ago near Kirkburton.—GEOo, 
Pounirs, ‘Huddersfield, Nov. 11th, 18 
Cosmia ) ecseryte outh sii meh August 14th, 1894, Mr. Charles 
Oldham, of Woodford, toa, and I T visited Risley Moss, near Warrington, for the 
purpose of col apting larvee of Lophopteryx camelina and Neeatonts dromedarius 
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as a beating net. srg, visited the moss again on the 18th, and obtained 
a eigen moth in bsg same w man, gee ps rote of this species under the 
name of Euperia ag Hiibn. * stated that it had been taken in Lancashire, 
but nie no details of the | pee C British Moths,’ fag 380), and it was only 
Sarnibag provisional vag as r. J. W. Ellis, in his list of Lancashire and eae an 
Noc se 4° Naturalist, ” 1886, p. 202), on the strength of Newman’s r 
rae Onaiaaas, Romiley, Nov. 6th, 1895. 
NOTE—MAMMALTIA. 
edgehog at Lorton (‘ Naturalist,’ August 1895, p. 242).—The following 
notice of Zrinaceus europeus L. is copied from my notes of a paper read before the 
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sa has been the victim of muc evel "peejion and superstitious n suaN . 
once current tien of his sucking the teats of recumbent cow 
sania as exploded. e charge also of being destructive to young and helpes 
fledglings, I consider to be grievously exaggerated. Frequently as I have observed 
s t : endl stellt. 
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panied by a young brother, we were surpri by hearing sti squeals of 
distress among the grass of a meadow behind us. On quietly se ie 
om the sounds proceeded, _ age = edgehogs in dly conflict 
perceptible in fine silky hairs of sn nowy whiteness. Carefully seplecitie the covering 
4 the nest, I took my leave of the interesting ‘ lady in the straw.’—W. Hopcson, 
Wor i es ag as 26th, I 
The publication of "pen id our previous notes on the Hedgehog in Lakeland, 
so far from “any perfluous, appears to be needed ; for Mr. Macpherso son’s other- 
wise excellent and welt aS “Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland’ is too often wanting 
in explicit statements as to distribution and faunal status, and in this parti 
instance we are left to act on the supposition that ‘silence gives es consent’ to a 
 eansrscfael that Zrimaceus europeus is to be found in our North Western 
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