The TOSfiO HAWMUST: 



A Penny Weekly Magazine of Natural History. 



No. 136. JUNE 17th, 1882. Vol. 3. 



A DAY AT GRANGE 

 AND WITHERSLACK. 



By J. W. Carter. Bradford. 



FOR some time past — it matters 

 not, dear reader, how long — we 

 have been looking anxiously for the 

 approach of Whitsuntide, that festive 

 season, when naturalists, as a rule, 

 leave tlieir own immediate districts and 

 migrate for a day or two in search of 

 " fresh fields and pastures new/^ Just 

 twelve months ago we decided to spend 

 one day at least in the neighbourhood 

 of Grange and Witherslack, that famous 

 resort for entomologists of the north 

 of England, which will stand out pro- 

 minently in entomological literature 

 in time to come, as being the scene of 

 many a rare capture by Messrs. Hodg- 

 kinson, Threlfall, Murray, and others. 

 On Tuesday morning, May 30th, at 

 5.45 a.m., eight or nine members of 

 the Bradford Naturalists' Society start- 

 ed from the midland railway station by 

 excursion train, and after a brisk run 

 of two hours and a half, i.e. at 8.15, 

 we arrived at Grange. On the road 

 beyond Skipton we noticed large 

 patches of that lovely bttle plant, the 



bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa)^ 

 their beautiful lilac-coloured flowers 

 standing out very conspicuously, and 

 in grand contrast to the golden flowers 

 of the furze (Vlex europceus) and the 

 broom (Cytisus scoparius) ^^Mx^x fairly 

 glittered as we flashed past them. 

 After waiting for a few minutes at 

 Grange we were joined by a valued 

 correspondent, Mr. H. Murray, of 

 Carnforth, to whose kindness we arc 

 indebted, not only on this occasion, 

 but on a previous time for acting 

 as guide and showing us the best col- 

 lecting ground in the district for species 

 obtainable on our respective visits. 



On going out of the station yard we 

 turned to the right, on a road parallel 

 to the railway, whicli Me kept for a 

 short distance, then took the first turn 

 to the left, where we commenced oper- 

 ations in earnest. The first insect ob- 

 served was A. remutata, whicli we dis- 

 turbed from the hedge bank. A./uli- 

 ginosa, the ruby tiger, was next found 

 at rest under — or, rather, at the base 

 of — a small limestone rock ; and later 

 on in the day a single specimen of the 

 larva of this species was found, which 



