354 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



NOTES— LEPIDOPTERA. 



Capture of Clifden Nonpareil at Scarborough.— A worn specimen of 



Catocala fraxini was captured in the Spa Grounds, Scarborough, on October 3rd, 

 1896, by Mr. H. R. E. Grey.— J. H. Rowntree, Scarborough, 18th November, 

 1896. 



Odezia atrata in Cheshire. — Within the last fortnight several specimens of 

 this species have occurred to me at Woodley and Romiley. Mr. J. W. Ellis cites 

 only two Cheshire localities for it— Bramhall and Knutsford — in his ■ Lepidop- 

 terous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire 5 ('Naturalist,' 1887, p. 104). — 



Chas. Oldham, Romiley, July 5th, 1896. 



Acherontia atropos at Bradford. — On the early morning of Sept. 17th 

 a specimen of the Death's Head Moth was taken in Dale Street, Bradford, right 

 in the centre of the town. A lamplighter — Mr. Mercer — whilst going his morning 

 round putting out the lights, found it resting at the foot of a lamp ; he succeeded 

 in capturing and conveying it home admirably, for it is now in the most perfect 

 condition, and is in the possession of Mr. B. Illingworth. It is a male specimen. 

 J. W. Carter, Manningham, Bradford, October 30th, 1896. 



NO TE—MOLL USCA . 



in the Goyt Valley.— On August 17th, 1896, I found several 

 examples of Limax ?narginatus J including a beautiful specimen of the rare variety 

 maculata Rbk., beneath the bark of a dead crab tree on the Cheshire bank of the 

 Goyt near Errwood Hall. From the same tree I obtained a single Limax 

 cinereo-niger var. luctuosa and two half-grown individuals of the species, of a 

 uniform brown colour with faint indications of the pale keel characteristic of this 

 slug. Mr. Roebuck considers this form identical with Moquin-Tandon's var. 

 obscura, which has not hitherto been recorded for Britain. On the Derbyshire 

 bank of the stream near Whaley Bridge I obtained two more immature examples 

 of the brown form of L. cinereo-niger and several L. margin at us from beneath the 

 bark of an old oak stump. Arion subfuscus and A. intermedins occur freely on 

 both sides of the stream. — Chas. Oldham, Romiley, Oct. 22nd, 1896. 



NOTES— MAMMALS. 



Daubenton's Bat in Derbyshire.— On the evening of August 13th I watched 



one of these Bats ( Vespertilio daubentonii) for some time, as it flitted to and fro, 

 like a ghostly Sand Martin, close to the surface of the water of one of the lakes in 

 Buxton Gardens. On the 15th the Bat was feeding at the same spot, but, although 

 I carefully scanned the river and the other pools in the gardens, I failed to see 

 any others. A friend tells me that when trout-fishing on the river Bradford, near 

 Alport, in the early part of September 1895, he saw Bats, late in the evening, 

 flying so close to the surface of the river that he thought they would have taken 

 his fly — a habit very characteristic of Daul>enton's Bat. — Charles Oldham, 

 Romiley, August 24th, 1S96. 



The Wild Boar in Furaess. — The ■ Barrow News/ October 3rd, 1 



contains a report of the paper by Mr. Harper Gaythorpe, which was read before 

 the Cumberland and "Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society at 

 Coniston, on September 16th, entitled • Prehistoric Implements in Furness.' In 

 this communication to the Society Mr, Gaythorpe mentions that during excavations 

 for building at Mossfield, Roose, near Barrow, in 1872, a bronze Celt was found 

 at 12 or 13 inches below the grass surface, and also ■ the upper tusks of two Boars, 

 one imperfect 2j inches long, and one perfect 2 inches long, the latter evidently 

 from a 'young animal, as at one comer it is very little worn.' These specimens 

 I saw when exhibited at Coniston. Macpherson, in his * Fauna of Lakeland, 

 xlix, gives no North Lancashire find of Boar tSus scrotJka ferus\ remains. Such 



of it If so, 

 ctober, 1S96. 



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