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LEPIDOPTERA NOTICED 
IN KILTON WOODS AND VICINITY DURING 1898. 
T. ASHTON LOFTHOUSE, 
SAAS ess 
Tue following notes were made on the occasion of two or three 
visits paid to Kilton Woods in company with Mr. Sachse, of 
Middlesbrough. 
Kilton Woods are situate in N.E. Yorkshire, near Loftus, 
and consist of richly-wooded valleys running from Skinningrove 
upward, and branching out at the upper part into three or four 
smaller valleys. The principal trees are Oak, Ash, and Wych 
Elm, interspersed with Mountain Ash and Bird Cherry, and close 
y the stream at the bottom of the valley Alders grow pretty 
écly ; there are also some young plantations of Scotch Fir, 
Larch, Spruce, interspersed with Birch, etc. 
Sugaring was only tried on two occasions and with very 
little success, the most of the collecting being done during the 
day time. Sugaring, I think, to be successful requires to be 
done for a few ene consecutively, and this we had not the 
Opportunity of d 
The district ane es been worked by Yorkshire lepidop- 
terists, as far as we know, we have thought it advisable to give 
a list of all the species notice 
11th June 1898. —Spzlosoma Wendie. 9 taken; Cr/tx glaucata; 
Lephrosia biundularia, a single specimen me at rest on tree 
trunk; MNumeria pulveraria, 9 taken whic laid ova, which 
hatched out on 26th June; Hybernza defoltaria, larvee ; Cherma- 
tobia brumata, larve very abundant, stripping a great variety of 
trees, Maple especially suffering; Abraxas sylvata (=ulmata), 
plentiful and fresh out, sitting about on low plants underneath 
‘ych Elm; some of the specimens were dark and _ nicely 
marked, but none so blue or suffused as specimens I have seen 
from the York district ; this species was out in this locality for 
a great length of time, being noticed on the occasion of every 
visit up to and including roth September; on the latter date 
larve were also abundant on Wych Elm in all stages of growth; 
Melanthia albicillata, single specimen taken, fresh out ; also one 
or two full grown larve off Wild Rasp in September ; Coremia 
destgnata (= propugnata). 
30th July-rst August.— Vanessa urtice ; Epinephele janira; 
Cenonympha pamphilus; Lycena icarus; Smerinthus popult, 
April 1899. H 
