34 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



NO TE— TRICHOPTERA . 



Abundance 



Wh 



last November, I noticed a Trichopteron in large numbers, specimens of which 

 I recently took to my friend Mr. G. T. Porritt to name. He informs me it is the 

 rare Hales us guttatipennis^ and that previous to my capture there were only three 

 British collections which had the species represented, and then only by single 

 specimens, viz., those of Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Porritt, and the Royal Dublin 

 Society. — G. C. Dennis, 39, Blossom Street, York, January, 1896. 



NO TE— ORNI THOL OGY. 



The Cormorant in Yorkshire. — The stranding of the * Earl of Beaconsfteld ' 

 at Kingborough will, no doubt, be remembered by readers of the * Naturalist.' 

 Part of the vessel still remains with one mast standing. A pair of Cormorants 

 (Pkalacrocorax carbo) have frequented the vessel for the last four years, and may 

 generally be seen sitting on the yard. This winter there are three, and two more 

 are said to have been shot by a Withernsea man. It seems probable that the 

 local opinion— that they nest in the mast — is correct, though I do not think that 

 anyone has been to the top to see. An attempt was made last year to remove the 

 wreck, but the idea has been abandoned. On May 3rd, I saw three Cormorants 

 on Hornsea Mere, towards Wassand. On being disturbed they settled on the 

 boundary boards, and remained till I was tired of watching. — T. Petch, Hedon, 

 Hull, Jan. 14th, 1896. 



NOTES— HYMENOPTERA. 



Sirex gigas near Hull. — A female was caught by myself at Hullbank in Sept. 

 1887. I saw it flopping about with one wing injured, on the river Hull near the 

 bank. According to Donovan, this species was considered rare in England, 

 though common in Germany. I heard of another — also an injured specimen — 

 caught last summer at Hornsea. — B. B. Haworth-Booth, Hullbank Hall, 

 Hull, nth Jan. 1896. 



Plague of Wasps near Hull in 1893. — In the summer of 1893 there was 

 a plague of Wasps, especially in South East Holderness. The Queen Wasps 

 occasionally hibernate under the bark of decayed trees. My gardener took and 

 killed eighteen Queen Wasps which he found under the splitbark of a large Silver 

 Fir which had been struck by lightning in the summer, and cut down in the 



winter for firewood.— B. B. Haworth-Booth, Hullbank Hall, Hull, Jan. nth, 

 1896. 



NOTE— LEPIDOPTERA. 



Lepidoptera near Beverley in 1895. — Mr. James R. Lowther, of Beverley, 

 an enthusiastic lepidopterist, informs me that he has obtained the following 

 specimens of Lepidoptera during the past season in the neighbourhood of 

 Beverley : — Ampkidasis prodromaria {strataria\ March 16th, one, bred from 

 dug pupae. Dicranura Jureula, May 8th, one at rest. Cucitllia umhratica y 

 June 1st, one, and Chelonia plantaginis, fifty, at Drewton Dale, Yorkshire. 

 D. furcula, September 3rd, one larva on willows. Dasypolia templi^ October 30th, 

 one ; November 12th, one ; November 23rd, one. The D. templi were take?i 

 during the daytime, resting on a wall. A. specimen of Ptecilocampa populi, 

 November 23rd. He also notes the capture of one Sphinx convoluli in the 

 Cattle Market, Beverley, about the middle of October, which afterwards came 

 into his possession. Dasypolia templi is of uncommon occurrence in the East 

 Riding, whilst Chelonia plantaginis has this year been very abundant in Drewton 

 Dale. — W. Hewett, York, January 2nd, 1896. 



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