Short Notes and Queries, 



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captured in or recorded for the West Riding. The query does not seem 

 to have been answered. In reply I may quote the records I have seen. 

 The first is given in the appendix to Whitaker's " Loidis and Elmete,^' 

 (1816) p. 63, thus : — Crysomela fulgida, viridi-cenea, elytris punctatis, 

 auro nitididis. Fab. Syst. Elent., 1, 43, 59. Habitat Salice. Cap. prope 

 Selby, 1806.— Mr. P. W. Watson." The next record dates in 1831, and 

 is thus given in Stephens' Illustrations of British Entomology, vol. iv. , 

 p. 345 : Very common on tansey, near York." — W. C. Hewitson. The. 

 same author, in 1839, in his Manual of British Beetles, gives it as 

 occurring on tansy, Yorkshire." In 1840, H. Baines published his 

 Flora of Yorkshire, in which, at p. 59, he gives the tansy as growing on 

 the " banks of the Ouse, above and below York, abundant ;" and adds, 

 * * It likewise affords nourishment to the larva and perfect insect of 

 Chrysomela fulgida. This splendid insect may be found on the tansy, on 

 the banks of the Ouse, in great abundance." Lastly, in the Entomologist 

 for August, 1873, vi. 460, Mr. T. W. Wilson having asked for the name 

 of a beetle which feeds on the tansy, commonly called the tansy -beetle," 

 is replied to by Mr. Edward Newman, who gave the scientific name, and 

 added that it occurs in marshy places in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire and 

 Norfolk, but that he did not recollect receiving it from any other county. 

 I give the records in full, to enable the reader to judge whether or not 

 the localities are in the West-Riding. My object, however, in writing 

 this note is to ask a question. Will someone tell us by what name it is 

 now known, as I do not find any such name as Chrysomela fulgida in 

 Sharp's Catalogue of British Coleoptera ; nor does the catalogue seem to 

 afford a clue to the synonomy. — W. Denison Roebuck, Sunny Bank, 

 Leeds, March 17th. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





above 



sea 

 level. 



Days 



1879. 



1878. 



Fall. 



HuDDERSFiELD (Dalton) ... 

 (J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



2-96 



21 



3-20 



* 5-57 



16 



0-76 



t Leeds ... (H. Crowther) ... 



183 



1-95 



20 



2-48 





16 



0-63 



Halifax...(F. G. S. Eawson) 



360 



4-65 



18 



514 



5-82 







Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



2-07 



18 



2-27 



3-57 



16 



0-72 



Ingbirchworth (do.) 



853 



4-64 



19 



4-85 



4-40 



16 



0-95 



Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-47 



20 



2-65 



3-92 



16 



0-57 



Goole ... (J. Haeeison) ... 



25 



1-43 



15 



1-83 



3-79 



16 



0-52 



* This is the average to date for 13 years, 1866-78, 



