58 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 
NOTE—FUNGI. 
Castle Ho mare hire A Correction.—In the list of Fungi collected at 
a Castle Howard and Malton aca guliiabed in ‘ Naturalist,’ Dec. 1892 
Sporo olin Pe des chrét., is entered for Castle Ho ward ; a 
Sporn aichot Corda, for Welham Park. These two names are 
nonyms, and were entered by an oversight.—CHAs. CROsSLAND, Halifax, 
Sak 17th, 1892. 
sieeamese tes 
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occurrence of /nula Peribienetrs in salie n siahbmidiond 1 of Dalton.in-F umess, no one 
h : 
when 
the side of an occupation road, in a hollow caused by rem g gravel for the 
purpose of repairing the road. ET. BaLpwin, 88, St. Sane Street, 3. Wi 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
supposed Scarborough specimens of Liparis monacha, ee 
The 
It is unfortunate that the record of the melanic and seer apeeeeet of Lipar. 
monacha, exhibited by Mr. J. A. Clark at the meeting of t c Entomological 
Society of London on November 2nd last, has this month oii d its way in 
‘Th he time Mr. 
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specimens, he was under the se ee that their parents had bee  capedied : a 
Scarborough, and in ice! belief, a full page plate of the varieties, accompa nied by 
an explanatory = per by Mr. Clark, eet in the ‘Entomologist’s Record’ of 
October 15th last. On fee ing the plate and paper, knowing that Z. monacha was 
not known to occur at Stirit st at ‘all, Iw once kavinced that a serious 
mistake had occurred somehow, as the br dbeth specimens represented the 
well-known Continental vaiiaty preteite of the species, I had a strong pase on cy 
to what was the real origin of the specimens. Accordin ngly I wrote ‘tom 
Lil pan = ntree, of Scarborough, telling him my suspicion, and requ sits 
him to kindly investigate the matter. This he very promptly did, - result 
i I had 
proving exactly as ad anticipated, that the melanism was not only not 
Yorkshire, but not even British. On acquainting Mr. Clark with the result of 
our investigations, he p the matter to i i 
acc ; aving satisfied himself he had been totally misled, published an 
explanat No er number of ? 2 
which was followed in the December num note from eac lers 
rough whom the specimens had been procured, both of the Sates that the 
eggs which had produced the moths had been obtained from s between an 
i h 
rdinary specimen taken in the New Forest and a Coubliientht: ‘cxalipit of the 
i pe 
rom bs of th , one would suppose that ey beautiful 
pecimen of ca lubricipeda va Fades ata, exhibited on behalf of Mr. John 
era of Barnsley, were Vorcchire specimens, Shenk Me: Pistiis obtained 
their esti from Lincolnshire. 
markable melanic varieties of eat ced répandata from Sheffield, 
cuties ¢ on behalf of Mr. A. E. Hall at the December meeting (Nat., p. 24), 
were the same form which I took at Huddersfield in 1887, and the form 
I exhibited at the gh of the Entomological Society of London in February 
1889 (Nat., 1889, p. 100). It is interesting to find this grand vari 
‘ Sheies d, an ae no doxbt when looked for it will turn up in other of the 
est Rid d probably in similar localities in Lancashire. —Gro., T. PorrITT, 
Hoaiennad. ae 2nd, 1893. 
Naturalist, 
