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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



W. T. Wright. 



Lepidoptera at Nottingham. Ent., January, xvii. 8-1 1. Notts. 



Detailed account of the season's work ; the places visited including New- 

 stead Park, Colwick Wood, and the immediate neighbourhood of Nottingham 

 town. 



J. N. Young. Notts. 

 Breeding Moths in Confinement. ' Records and Obs.' of Rotherham Nat. 

 Soc, No. I (July 1884), pp. 10, II. 



Mr. Young having taken battered females of Liparis monacha in Sherwood 

 Forest on the 27th July, 1882, reared a brood of larvae from them the following 

 year, and attempted to continue doing so without the introduction of fresh 

 blood. The third brood, however, were very degenerate, and Mr. Young 

 concluded that, while it was possible to breed moths for one season under 

 unnatural conditions, it was doubtful whether fecundity could be kept up 

 another season. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Yorkshire. 

 [Reports of Meetings, Roche Abbey, May 8th, and Sherburn-in-Elmete, 

 June 2nd.] Nat., June and July, ix. 198-200 and 216-220 ; also reprinted in 

 Recs. and Obs. of Rotherham Nat. Soc, No. i, July 1884, pp. 7-9. 

 Field -notes on the species of lepidoptera observed. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 

 Chserocampa nerii at Hartlepool.— I have to record the capture by 



myself of a specimen of Chtcrocanipa nerii yesterday morning on the railings sur- 

 rounding my firm's timber yard. It is in fairly good condition, though evidently a 

 hybernated specimen, the colours being somewhat faded. So far as I know, this 

 will be the first record of its occurrence in the north, and it is a grand addition to 

 our fauna. — J. Gardner, 8, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool, 24th July, 1885. 



Vanessa antiopa at Shefaeld in 1875.— One was captured in our 



conservatory (about a mile from Sheffield) by a servant in the summer of 1875, and 

 given to my brother, who set it. It is now in my collection. It is undoubtedly 

 an English specimen, as the border of its wings is pure white, and not yellow, as 

 in continental specimens. — A. E. Hall, Norbury, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. 



Lepidoptera in the Green Farm Wood, Doneaster, May 



30th, 1885.— Mr. George Tindall of Newmarket, Mr. John Harrison of 

 Barnsley, and myself, spent Saturday, May 30th, in the Green Farm Wood, Don- 

 caster. We worked the birches almost exclusively, and found on them larvse of 

 Phycis betiilella in plenty, each of us securing a good haul. A few larvae of the 

 local Coleophora ciirrucipennella were taken, and those of Geojiietya papiliojiaria 

 also occurred. Larvae of Cheimatobia boreata were common enough, but still not 

 so abundant as in the previous season. Of images we got the pretty Phoxopteryx 

 ramana, Arctia viendica, Platyptcryx falcula, and a number of others. — Geo. T. 

 Porritt, Huddersfield, June 17th, 1885. 



Lepidoptera near Bingley. — I have to record the capture of OrthotiCilia 

 ericetana by my brother, near Beckfoot, last June or July. I believe its claim in 

 the list of Yorkshire lepidoptera is based on a single example recorded by Mr. 

 Prest, as having been taken at Stockton-on-the-Forest in 1877. Other additions to 

 our local lepidoptera for 1884, which are perhaps worth recording, are: — Mdia 

 socidla, taken at Marley, near Bingley ; Penthina di/fiidiana, common near Rom- 

 balds Moor ; Stiguionota regiana, near Bingley ; Reiinia piiiivorana, common, 

 Blackhills; Scardia arcella (one), Blackfoot ; Dicroranipha^ herbosaiia, very 

 common near Beckfoot ; Scoparia coiispicicalis, one by my brother, Goit Stock ; 

 S. atojualis, common on Blackhills in July. These last three species, although not 

 added to our list for . 1884, are perhaps worth mentioning, one of them — viz., 

 6". atomalis — so far as I know, not having before been recorded for Yorkshire. — 



E. P. P. Butterfield, Wilsden, near Bingley, April 2nd, 1885. 



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