288 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1884 : LEPIDOPTERA. 



W. Hewett. 



Lepidopterous Captures near York. Naturalist, Jan., ix. 103. Yorkshire. 



Notes on twenty-three species. 



J. B. HODGKINSON. 



Note ou Crambus furcatellus. Ent. Mo. Mag., January, xx. 189. Cumberland. 



Used to be in profusion on Helvellyn, also on Scawfell more sparingly ; it 

 i-equires a good altitude ; even Stye Head is hardly high enough ; but a few 

 hundred yards further upwards brings one to its head-quarters ; it also occurs 

 on Skid daw. 



Nepticula centifoliella. Ent., July, xvii. 166. Lancashire. 



Eight or nine mines with full fed larvse found on rose-leaves at Leyland, 

 near Preston, October 1883 ; from these were bred three specimens the 

 following May. 



Elachista densicornella and other captures. Ent., August, xvii. 185. 



At Grange and Arnside — numerous species of lepidoptera recorded. 

 Laphygma exigua in Lancashire. Ent., December, xvii. 274. 



One seen by him in the Reform Club, Preston, September i6th, but not 

 captured. 



A Nepticula new to science. Ent., December, xvii. 281. 



N. Hodgkinsoni S taint. ; two males, one female ; reared from rose-leaves, 

 April 1884. 



? Lancashire or ? Westmoreland. 

 Peronea comparana [should have been comariana] double-brooded. Ent., 



January and August, xvii. 20 and 184. 



Larva collected in June and September produced imagoes in July and 

 October respectively. 



Westmoreland, Lancashire. 

 Further Notes from Witherslack. Ent., July, xvii. 165-6. 



Numerous lepidoptera taken at Witherslack, May 30th, and at Grange, 

 June 2nd. 



W. F. KiRBY. Yorkshire. 

 Entomological Society of London; 3rd October, 1883. Ent. Mo. Mag., April, 

 XX. 262. 



Mr. Kirby exhibited a Zygcena captured near York, by W. Prest, which 

 the latter thought might be Z. 7neliloti ; but the general opinion of the meeting 

 was against their distinctness from Z. loiiicerce. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club. 



[Report of Meeting]. Naturalist, June, ix. 197. Yorkshire. 



Notes of lepidoptera at Addingham, near Ilkley, taken by C. Smethurst. 

 Arthur Marshall. 



Acronycta alni. Ent., September, xvii. 209. Lincolnshire, Derbyshire. 



A record of three larvae ; one sent from Grantham, Lincolnshire, the other 

 two picked up in the village of Egginton, near Burton-on-Trent, one on a 

 gravel path, the other at the entrance of a rabbit-hole. 



T. Meldrum. Yorkshire. 

 Scarcity of C[irrhoedia]. Xerampelina. Young Nat., October, v. 263. 



Localities (near Newby Hall and Sleningford Park) which have befoie- 

 time produced numerous specimens, were searched with but small success in 

 August, 1884. 



J. Cosmo Melvill. Lancashire. 

 Charseas graminis. Ent., November, xvii. 253-4. 



A fine female reposing on a large tuft of Hair-grass {Deschampia flexuosa) 

 on Kersal Moor, was attracting numerous males, August 22nd. The moth, 

 not before seen in the locality, is this year abundant, not only on the Moor, 

 but also at Prestwich. Naturalist, 



