MosLEY : Macro-Lepidoptera AT Sherwood Forest. 119 



Aplecta occulta. One. 



Hadena protea, common ; pisi, not unfreqiient ; contigiia, once. 



Heliotliis dipsacea. This has been taken once. 



Anarta mjrtilli. Larvae common on ling. 



Gonoptera libatrix. Taken once or twice, 

 Amphipyra pyramidea, swarms ; tragopogonis, common. 

 Stilbia anomala. Occasionally, at ragwort flowers. 

 Euclidia glyphica. Once. &c. 

 Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield, December, 1876. 



[Judging from the above list, we think Mr. Mosley has " missed " 

 a good many species he certainly ought to have come across at 

 Sherwood. The following, which he entirely omits, we have taken 

 commonly there, some indeed very plentifully : Arctia fuliginosa, 

 Ephyra punctaria, Eupithecia nanata and exiguata, Acronycta 

 leporina, Himera pennaria, Tephrosia biundularia, T^eniOcampa cruda 

 and miniosa, &c. The following we found less commonly, but still of 

 not unfrequent occurrence; — Thera variata, Nyssia hispidaria, 

 Amphydasis prodromaria, Notodonta dromedarius, Cymatophora 

 flavicornis, Heliophobus popularis, &c. ; also the following, but less 

 numerously : — Aspilates strigillaria, Ennomos tiliaria, Eupith^ecia 

 pulchellata, Cidaria corylata, Eubolia palumbaria, Neuria saponarise, 

 Coremia ferrugata, Aglossa pinguinalis, Herminia barbalis, Vanessa 

 lo, and cardui, &c., &c. Orgyia antiqua is common, contrary to Mr. 

 Mosley's experience ; we also got the grey form of Noctua neglect a. 

 Eurymene dolabraria and Phigalia pilosaria are pretty common ; 

 whilst the larvae of Ephyra pendularia are very plentiful amongst the 

 birches. On the other hand we never noticed either Phorodesma 

 bajularia or Ephyra omicronaria at Sherwood, and shall be very 

 pleased to see Mr. Mosley's specimens, as we believe the species have 

 never before been recorded from the locality. We have no recollection 

 of noticing even the food of omicronaria at Sherwood. — G. T. P.] 



. REPOKT ON THE GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF 

 THE TEES VALLEY FIELD CLUB FOR 1876: 



Bz JoHK Jones, F.G.S. 



In the neighbourhood of Ayton the members of the above Club have 

 had an opportunity of inspecting several exceedingly interesting 

 exposiires of -what is known as the Whin Dyke of Cleveland. The 

 main points raised for discussion were with reference to the age 



