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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



HE TER O CERIDM. 

 HETEROCERUS, Fab. 



H. marginatus, Fab. 



A single specimen taken on the bank of the Alt at Hightown 

 in April 1882 (J.H.S.). 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Hymenoptera near York. — In my paper on Hymenoptera an asterisk 

 is prefixed to Abia 7iiiens Thorns. This insect is, however, not new to Yorkshire, 

 but is the same as sericea L.; Mr. Cameron named it for me as niteiis. Tenthredo 

 sordida should be Tenthredopsis sordida. In Mr. Cameron's catalogue of British 

 Tenthredinidse, this species is given as a synonym of T. nassata, but I believe 

 them to be distinct species. Of T. sordida I have taken both male and female 

 together from hawthorn hedges, the females being in the proportion of two to one 

 male. All the females of T. sordida zxq yellow, and the males are slender, dark 

 brown, almost black, the abdomen bordered irregularly with paler brown. On the 

 other hand, the males of Tenthredopsis nassata are yellow and are larger insects 

 altogether, whilst the females are unknown to me. I have taken five males and 

 they are all constant in markings. — Thos. Wilson, Holgate, York, February 

 loth, 1885. 



Abia sericea L. in Wensleydale. — On the 9th of August the Rev. 

 G. P. Harris, M. A., sent me a specimen of the pretty larva of this sawfly, which 

 he had found feeding on scabious near Hawes, for the name of which I am 

 indebted to Mr. E. A. Fitch. — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Sunny Bank, Leeds, 

 August 1 8th, 1884. 



Lepidoptera near Ilkley. — My captures in the neighbourhood of 

 Ilkley during the past season have included the following : — Pliisia niterrogatioiiis., 

 a very fine example, taken on Ilkley Moor, which is, I believe, the first recorded for 

 the district ; Epiinda viminalis, bred from larvce taken on sallows in Middelton 

 Wood ; Xanthia cerago and X. silago, both abundant as larvae on sallow catkins, at 

 Addingham ; Cidaria fiilvaia and C. pyraliata, taken both at Ilkley and at 

 Middelton ; and Cynthia cardiii, which I saw lately in one of the Ilkley streets. — 

 Charles Smethurst, Leeds, August 20th, 1884. 



Lyc8Dna corydon in the North of England. — Your note on p. 183 



of the Naturalist for March, reads that this butterfly does not occur in Yorkshire. 

 Some twenty years ago a man from Settle had at an inn here (Preston) a museum, 

 in which he had 'pictures' made of the Chalk-hill Blue (Z. cojydon). He told me 

 that they were in profusion about or near Settle and Bentham, some twenty miles 

 from Lancaster. The species till lately existed under Warton Crags near Carn- 

 forth, ground that I go over at all times of the year. W'here Thccla quercils and 

 L. corydon used to swarm, not one has been seen for years. I may add that there 

 is plenty of scope for entomological investigation on the east side of the London 

 and North Western Railway, from Preston to (say) Tebay, many miles of which 

 has never been looked up by entomologists. — J. B. Hodgkinson, Preston, March 

 1st, 1885. 



[We print this note for what it may be considered worth by entomologists, and 

 because Mr. Hodgkinson's observations on the occurrence of the species at Warton 

 Crags tend to confirm the records given in previous numbers of this journal by 

 Dr. Ellis and Mr. H. Goss. But we should be inclined to enter a verdict of * not 

 proven ' in respect of the Yorkshire record ; it is vague, and offers so much room 

 for reasonable doubt. It is particularly worthy of remark that there should be no 

 confirmation from other sources of the occurrence of a day-flying insect which is so 

 conspicuous on the wing as is Z. corydon, — Eds.] 



Naturalist, 



