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The Naturalist. 



Great-crested Grebe near Leeds. — On the 18th September my 

 brother and I observed a pair of great-crested grebes on Waterloo Lake, 

 at Roundhay Park. We watched them for about an hour, and with the 

 aid of a field-glass were able to see them very distinctly. These birds are 

 very scarce in this neighbourhood. We also saw at the same time a brood of 

 young waterhens, apparently not above a week old ; this is rather late to 

 meet with young waterhens. Last winter I saw a pair of little grebes, 

 at Roundhay. This is also a rare bird, not a single previous instance of 

 its breeding in this locality having come under my observation. — 

 Walter Raine, Leeds, Oct. 18th. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



East-Riding Lepidoptera. — I have just been reading the Transactions 

 of the Nat. Union, lately issued. In the remarks upon the macro- 

 lepidoptera for 1878 I see allusion made to Anchocelis lunosa, as a York- 

 shire rarity. If this applies merely to that year, it is undoubtedly true, 

 but otherwise the insect is by no means uncommon on the fen land here. 

 I take it on the flowering reeds, and sitting on gas lamps, and in ordinary 

 years usually bring home several in an evening's walk, when out for 

 lutosa (Reed flowers, it might not perhaps be generally known to 

 your readers, areas attractive as sugar.) For the past two years, how- 

 ever, I have missed lunosa, nor have I seen it this autumn. — A Yorkshire 

 rarity, I believe, is Mamestra abjeda, of which I took eleven at the 

 mouth of the Humber in August, this year, and to my certain knowledge 

 missed three more. From the locality I judge they may be always found 

 there. On the same occasion I took the finest series of Agrotis cursoria 

 I have ever seen. Both these and Piipm are much darker in Yorkshire 

 than are southern specimens. — N. F. Dobree, Beverley, Sept. 27th. 



Aplecta occulta at Hull. — To Mr. Prest's record of the capture of 

 Aplecta occulta at York, I can add the take of thirteen in this immediate 

 vicinity during last August. They have never been seen here before. — 

 N. F. Dobree, Sept. 27th. 



Vanessa Antiopa near Bradford.— A non-entomological friend recently 

 described to me an insect as a large dark moth with a white edge," 

 which he had seen flying and resting on geraniums, &c, , in an ornamental 

 flower garden at Manningham. I took out a drawer from my cabinet, and 

 asked him to show me the insect he had seen, when he unhesitatingly 

 pointed to Antiopa. It had been noticed for several days. The 

 following Sunday (Sept. 26th) I had the pleasure of seeing one fly over 

 my head and into some villa gardens near the same place (Lister Park) ; 

 at least from its size and general appearance I feel sure it could be no 

 other butterfly. — J. W. Carter, Manningham, Bradford, Oct. 4th. 



Aplecta occulta near Bradford. — Shipley Glen is another locality 

 added to the range of A. occulta in Yorkshire, in 1880, a beautiful fresh 

 specimen being taken there by Messrs. Wardman and Dawson on the 

 28th of August, which is the first observed in this district. — J. W. C. 



