YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT KIRKBY MOORSIDE. 319 
The following imagines were observed :—Pieris brassicae, 
P. rape, P. napi, Vanessa urtice, V. atalanta, Argynnis aglaia, 
Chor totius pamphilus, Satyrus janira, S. hyperanthus (some extreme 
varieties of the latter with ringlets scarcely discernible), S. seme/e 
(the last named species in considerable abundance on the slopes of 
Douthwaite- Dale), Lycena icarus, Larentia didymata, Ypsipetes 
elutata, Eubolia mensuraria (?), Tanagra cherophyllata, Xylophasia 
polyodon, Apamea oculea, Agrotis (?), Triphena pronuba, and 
Pterophorus ed The showery weather interfered with 
the success of the day, from I si I standpoint, and sugaring 
in the evening sie a failure. 
The coleopterists present were the Rev. W. C. Hey, Mr. Walter 
F. Baker, and Mr. Frank Colby. The captures were neither 
was fairly common in a wood about three miles no of 
Kirkby, and was apparently feeding on the wild  straw- 
berries. Oxytelus rugosus, Ocypus morio, and the strong-smelling 
O. brunnipes were fairly abundant. S7/pha atrata was found beneath © 
a stone in the valley of the river by Mr. Colby, and CArysomela 
varians, Philonthus atratus, and Dianotis cerulescens were also 
obtained, the last-named being under a stone in what had once 
doubtless been a little watercourse, but the extremely dry weather 
had made it quite hard and dry. Stercoraceous beetles were fairly 
common, but nothing worth mentioning was obtained. Aphodius 
rufipes was almost as common here as in the Hull district, whilst 
A. fimetarius, so common round Leeds, was only represented by 
isolated specimens. Geotrupes spiniger was the only Geotrupes 
obtained. Whether it was the unfavourable weather on the actual 
day, or the extremely dry weather we have hitherto had this year, | 
: the three coleopterists were only able to obtain some thirty odd 
species between them, a most unusually meagre lot even for Daly, = 
a when so many beetles are in the larval state. : 
For the Botanical eine Mr. Albert: H. Pawson, i its Secretary, a ce 
| ives the following report 
‘The streams which ow ‘ssuthidard into the Rye about Kinkby : 
| - Moorside and Helmsley have cut their way through the Oolitic Hills 
in a most singular series of valleys, famed for rare plants. The - 
waters for the most part take their rise on the Lias formation tothe | 
_ north, which, in spite of its lower its shales - : 
render moorland and waste, while 2 200 piiset abire on the e limestone oe 
a Soe and rich Lear etde are Heed . this: trorot - 
