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sharply defined against the ashy sky, and a troop of wild hunters 
appear, armed with stone hatchets and flint barbs. Presently they 
are gone, both the hunters and their quarry, and the giant form of 
a mammoth, with curving tusks and shaggy mane, grows into their 
place. As the short afternoon turns duskier, I listen to the muffled 
footfalls of a pack of wolves, their dismal howlings re-echo from the 
rocky sides of the valley. Deeper and deeper falls the twilight ; 
a shivering breath of cold air passes by me and rustles the withered 
oak leaves. Is it really only a passing breeze and not some phantom 
of Death sweeping by on its awful errand? Yonder dark, ill-defined 
object might be only a stump bearded with lichens, or some mis- 
shapen dwarf of Scandinavian mythology, revealing himself thus late 
to the eye of a posthumous faith. 
Wandering on thus, lost in fancy, I am suddenly recalled to 
myself, startled for an instant into believing the creatures of my 
imagination have actually become corporeal and animated. For 
surely there is a real sound of rushing feet in the wood, this is a real 
wild cry ringing from the rock above. A rabbit, pursued by two dogs, 
rushes close by my feet, and explains the first sound ; the unearthly 
cry proceeds from a couple of jackdaws, returning to their night- 
roost in the ice-draped crags on high. 
NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
Melanippe hastata near Sheffield.—On the 15th inst. I came across 
several examples of this moth when ereng sumee h the Wharncliffe woods, 
tween Deepcar and Oughty Bridge. I do 2 at whether the species is 
widely distributed in Yorkshire or not, but a poe of fs ra urrence here may 
possibly be of interest to local entomologists. Two days before, I saw a female 
Orange Tip Fey cardamines) fluttering round a head of chatock in the same 
lo gol —CHAs. OLDHAM, Ashton-on-Mersey, May 18th, 1893. 
e took Melanippa hastata freely in the Wharncliffe 2s years ago, and the 
lo eality has long been known as one of the best West Yorkshire 2 of 
species, which, moreover, is widely distributed cataaninl the county.—G. aun 
NOTE—MOLL USCA. 
Six-banded Helix nemoralis at Adel near Leeds,.—I am indebted to my 
friend Mr. W. Howard, who a the head of the composing departm ment at 
Messrs. McCorquodale & Co. Limit rs nemoralts 
collected by him Niemen 4 at Adel : near Leeds, where there were scores cr yipee 
about the and on walls. There were examples of the vars. rs. lébellula 
rubella, of various paid Ouaa, the most interesting being the seldom-met- pet 
six 
y ful formul i 
var. /tbellula 123345. The bands coalesce towards the mouth but are perfectly 
distinct and unmistakable on the greater portion of the shell.—W. Duniso 
Roesuck, Sunny Bank » Leeds, May 2oth, 1893. 
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