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PROTEINIDJE. 



Proteinus brevicoUis Er. 



Liscard and Eastham. 

 Proteinus brachypterus F. 



Gommon. 

 Megarthrus depressus Pk. 



Generally distributed. 

 Megarthrus affinis Mill. 



Liscard, October 1882, common (J.W.E.). 

 Megarthrus denticoUis Beck. 



Liscard and Wallasey (J.W.E.). 



MICR OPEPLID^, 



Micropeplus margaritse Duv. 



Mrs. Ellis took this species abundantly on a wall at Liscard, 

 in October 1882. I have not seen it before or since. 

 Micropeplus porcatus Pk. 



One specimen on the bank of the river Alt, Hightown, July 

 1883 (J.W.E.). 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 

 Seasonal Notes on Lepidoptera (South-west Yorkshire).— 



It seems to be almost universally admitted that for lepidoptera the season of 1884 

 has thus far been a great improvement on its several immediate predecessors ; and 

 such, certainly, is my own experience. Mr. W. Laxton, of Bedford, informs me 

 that Apatura Iris turned up commonly again in Monk's Wood, Huntingdonshire. 

 Oporabia Jiligra?n?}iaria was in plenty and in fine variety, at rest on rocks on the 

 moors at Greenfield, at the end of August and beginning of September ; and 

 Celcena Haworthii was in profusion in the same neighbourhood. Specimens of 

 these two species, however, got quite out of their latitude, for C. Haworthii was 

 taken flying in the College Field in the town here, far away I should think from 

 any cotton grass ; and Mr. Crosland also took a beautiful specimen of 0. Jiligram- 

 maria in New North Road, Huddersfield. Near the same part of the town, too, 

 he found Scoparia coarctalis not uncommonly, and a brood of larvse of Vanessa 

 Cardui, which species, I may add, is now on the wing here. — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Huddersfield, September 17th, 1884. 



Erebia Blandina, 8cc,, in Upper Wharfedale. — On the loth 



August of the present year I had the pleasure, in company with my friend Mr. 

 Soppitt, of making acquaintance with E. Blandina, in its well known York- 

 shire habitat at Grassington, ifi Upper Wharfedale. Several examples were noted 

 in Grass Low Wood, close to the river ; but in the High Wood they were to be 

 seen sporting themselves in the sun, in open places, in countless numbers. 

 Pterophorus serotinus Zell. was very common in the same locality, and two 

 examples of Miana expolita were noted, but these I failed to secure. Generally 

 speaking, lepidopterous insects were very scarce. — ^J. W. Carter, Bradford, 

 September, 1884. 



Crambus inquinatellus at Huddersfield.— A few days ago Mr. 



S. L. Mosley brought me specimens of this insect for examination. He found it 

 commonly in August, at Bilberry Reservoir, near Holmfirth, Huddersfield ; but it 

 had not previously been noticed in the South West Riding. — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Huddersfield, Sept. 17th, 1884. 



Oct. 1884. 



