NOTE—COLEOPTERA. 
Orchesia micans and = pagabs de undulata: A correction.—Owing 
to the unfortunate heading to my note in last month's * Naturalist ] 
the ae sprazoaaly is given that both these insects have been taken near Barnsley. 
is is not s The latter was obviously taken near Doncaster, as the 
exact localities are fo deit Gh viz., Edlington and Green Farm Woods. O. micans, 
in the larval state on both papattcy, { brought to pink und from Cleethorpes, 
so that Yor hice: cannot be credited with the species so far as it has come — 
under my notice.—E, G,. Ba pete 20, Eldon St., Barnsley, 16th March i en 
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NOTE.—LEPIDOPTERA. 
Yorkshire Records of gb anata e notice Mr. Tutt t (Nat., March 
1898, p. 72), writing of records of Procris globularie and Limacodes testudo, 
<u * Whether there be any aides that will oa ort the maintenance of 
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se species in the Yorkshire List ? t had referred to the | 
Varies List of Lepidoptera,’ he would have Se al as neither these 3 
species is included in it, consequently there is no occasion to ‘ cut them ou ut,’ 3 
as he suggests! And if, on finding the record of the iather erecta in an 
Id number of the ‘Entomologist’ (I cannot no such a record ; whe 
is it ?), he had turned to th ond paragraph of the ‘ Introduction’ to the 
‘Yorkshire List,’ he would have seen that the reason ctlbiss! several species, 
such as it, were omitted, was aay ae the evidenc not d suffi-~ 
cient to warrant their inclusion. Abie rts pee re valk I was unaware, 
even, that my friend, Mr. Rowntree, grt rded it-from Aysgarth ; and as 
[ have alway carefully noted in my interleaved ¢ copy of the “Yorkshire List 
all reliable bereeher of oer ae also new localities of the ra species, 
it is evident that if I ever saw eae mes vere osed that either P. Fy toa es 
or P. geryun, both of whic se are re species, had been naa or it. 
—GEO Hine Porritt, ‘Croskand tig qdddecead. ae March 1 
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NOTE—MAMMALIA., 
Otters in North Li ep rock eg Pg es — to record ne destruc 2 
a of two Otters nas os on am at Great Cotes. I have been — 
f fe oye m 
water. One was sh 
a most peshtiencest f way. Alabourer who ‘ in the str 
left an overcoat and canta jacket on the bank, and mone returning saw 
a tail protrudi ie, from under the coat; thi inking it was a thieving cat, he 
struck at it and succeeded in stunning a fine dog Otter, and subsequently ee 
finished the job by hanging it with twine to the Randle of his spade. This 
man’s clo 
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As ers Stroye stre: 5 
miles from this. These two unfortunates had been hea protbcted t by one 
of our best Lincolnshire naturalists, Mr. G. H. ton Iii ale but, as in 
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the tester ae unnecessary destruction of these 7 ur poor beasts 
the Otter has probably become an extinct species in North Lincolnshire. — 
eee CorDeavx, Great Cotes: Hou ouse, R. aes Lincoln, 12th March 1898. 
