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NO TE— COLE OF TEE A. 



Astynomus sedilis at Wakefield. — The circumstance mentioned 

 by Mr. N. Y. Dobree, of this species having been found in Hull, is by no means a 

 rare one. I have m my collection no fewer than six Yorkshire (?) examples of this 

 insect, male and female, one of which was found in a colliery in this neighbour- 

 hood — conveyed there, no doubt, amongst the pit timber, which I learnt was from 

 Scotland. Another was picked up on the footpath near Stanley. All were 

 doubtless brought here in Scotch or foreign wood. It cannot be considered in- 

 digenous to England, and has certainly no claim to be entered as a Yorkshire 

 species ; in fact the only known locality where it is to be found in quantities at all 

 corresponding to a breeding haunt in the British Isles, is Rannock, in Perthshire. 

 A few years ago great numbers of them were found in Hartlepool, having come to 

 this country in a cargo of pit-props from France. These observations tend to show 

 how easy it is to record an insect as indigenous owing to accidental causes. — E. B. 

 Wrigglesworth, Wakefield, December 17th, 1884. 



NO TES—LEPID OPTERA. 



Erastria fuseula : a species new to Yorkshire.— The announce- 

 ment of the capture of Erast)-ia pisciila in Yorkshire will probably be received 

 with surprise by many, as it has hitherto, I believe, been regarded as a southern 

 species ; inasmuch, however, as its food-plant is abundant, and no other individual 

 impediment appears to exist, there is apparently no strong reason why this species 

 should not breed in our county : a reflection which is strengthened by the 

 recollection of the number of species formerly regarded as southerners which have 

 been taken in Yorkshire, and other northern counties, during the past thirty years. 

 Mr. Henry Willits of Sheffield, a practical entomologist of fifty years' experience, 

 in a list of flies taken by himself at Wharncliffe, reports the capture of two 

 specimens oi E, fuseula at that place, 'near the top of the private walk' ; he has 

 unfortunately made the all too common mistake of not keeping a note book, and 

 is therefore unable to say definitely, the exact date of the occurrence, but places it for 

 either 1871 or 1872. Mr. Willits being by nature of a very retiring disposition, is 

 probably known to but few naturalists ; he has, however a safe knowledge of 

 species, and is eminently trustworthy ; I have, therefore, no hesitation in accepting 

 the report on his authority. — Wm. E. Brady, i. Queen Street, Barnsley, Feb. 23rd. 



The Lepidopterous Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire.— 



Leiicophasia sinapis. At page 165, Mr. Ellis records this species as being 

 abundant at Grange. I did not see any specimens of it in the woods near Grange 

 when I was staying there in 1883, and Mr, Anthony Mason (of Grange) informed 

 me that the species, though formerly abundant in the woods in question, had of 

 late years entirely disappeared. My old correspondent, the late James Murton, of 

 Silverdale, used to send me specimens of this insect which he stated he had 

 collected at Silverdale and Arnside. 



Ca:7ionympha typhon {davus). In addition to the localities given by Mr. Ellis, 

 at page 171 ante^ I may mention Meathop Moss, near Grange, where I found this 

 species in profusion, in June 1883. This species is also abundant on Witherslack 

 Moss, about two miles to the north of the last-mentioned locality. [These localities 

 are in Westmoreland County, and are therefore not additions to Mr. Ellis's list. 

 Considerable caution is requisite in this respect, and it is very probable that many 

 insects recorded as from ' Grange ' are really from Witherslack, which is on the 

 Westmoreland side of the county boundary. — Eds.] 



Polyonujiatus corydou. This species certainly occurred one year in abundance 

 in the neighbourhood of Silverdale. In the autumn of 1 870 I received a number 

 of specimens of it from Mr. James Murton ; and I was informed in June 1883, by Mr, 

 Anthony Mason, that this species, although previously unknown in the district, had 

 suddenly appeared in abundance at Silverdale, in 1869 or 1870, and had since as 

 suddenly disappeared. 



Zephynis {Thecla) betulce. I am surprised to find that only a single specimen 

 of this species is recorded {ante, p, 172) from Silverdale in 1868. Some fifteen 

 years ago I received more than a dozen specimens of this insect from Mr. Murton, 

 who informed me that the species was not uncommon in the neighbourhood of 

 Silverdale. — H. Goss, Surbiton Hill, Surrey, 12th March, 1885. Naturalist, 



