BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1 884: LEPIDOPTERA. 



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S. L. MOSLEY. 



A Visit to York. Young Nat., January, v. 39-41. Yorkshire. 



Capture of Eujionios tiliaria in Askham Bog noted. 



A Visit to Eainworth Lodge, Notts. Young Nat., March, v. 83-85. Notts. 



Notes of Hybernia leiicophcearia and Phigalia pilosaria^ H. nipicapraria and 

 H. p7-oge)n})iaria at Rainworth, 



Bird Protection, and its relation to Insect Life. Young Nat., July, v. 188- 191. 

 Hybernia le^icophc^aria and Phigalia pilosaria preyed on by tits at Rain- 

 worth, Notts. 



J. J. Nixon. Derbyshire. 

 The Death's Head Moth (Acherontia atropos) at Derby. Young Nat., 

 October, v. 262-3. 



Two specimens found near the railway recorded ; reference also made to a 

 capture three years before at Little Eaton. 



Nottingham Working Men's Naturalists' Society. 

 Report of Meeting, Feb. 4th. Midi. Nat., March, vii. 92. Notts. 

 Sattirtiia carpini 'was taken veiy plentifully a few years ago by Messrs. W. 

 Watchorn and J. Fox, in Newstead Park, but no specimens can now be 

 obtained.' 



C. A. P[arker]. 



A Cumberland Marsh. Field, May 3rd, pp. 596-7. Cumberland. 



Hepialits huuuili noted as fed on by Gulls, at Drigg Common or Point. 

 Geo, T. Porritt. Yorkshire. 

 List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera. Trans. Yorksh. Nat. Union. Series D, Vol. II., 

 pp. 94-158- 



The present instalment extends from Xylocampa lithoriza to Coleophora 

 virgaitreella, both inclusive. 



Double-broodedness of Scoparise. Ent. Mo. Mag., January, xx. 188. 



Scoparia miiralis, S. anibignalis, and S. conspiciialis cited as Yorkshire 

 instances. 



Lasiocampa ilicifolia. Nat., February, ix. 118. 



Refers to its former occurrence in Yorkshire, and advocates re-search for it. 

 Abundance of Exapate gelatella, Ent., Feb., xvii. 44. 



At the end of October and beginning of November occurred in great profusion 

 at Huddersfield and Bingley. The writer also notes that autumnal species have 

 generally been abundant, instancing Dasypolia tenipli, Hybernia aurantiaria, 

 and Cheiviatobia biiiniaia at Huddersfield. 



Food-plant of Sciaphila pascuana, &c. Ent. Mo. Mag., J\Iay, xx. 277. 



Bred freely two seasons ago from larvae collected spun up in flowers of 

 Ranunmhts bnlbostis, in a rough uncultivated field at Huddersfield. With it 

 also emerged S. idericana in about equal numbers, and one S. octomaciilana. 



Laverna phragraitella in Yorkshire. Nat., July, ix. 213. 



New to the county list; found by Lord Walsingham at Sherburn-in-Elmete, 

 June 2nd. 



Description of the larva of Crambus pratellus. Ent. Mo. Mag.. August, 

 xxi. 62-63. 



Bred from eggs laid by moths taken at or near Huddersfield. 

 Is Pterophorus gonodactylus double-brooded? Ent. Mo. Mag., December, 

 xxi., 1 60- 1. 



Usually supposed to be a June insect, but in the Huddersfield district is 

 more frequently taken in the autumn. 



Aug. 1885 o 



