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Dr. Hamilton's work previouslymentioned (published by Sampson' 

 Low, and Co.) is full of all the latest modern views regarding the 

 Salmonidse, and is well worthy of a careful perusal. 



P.S. — Since these notes were put together, it has been proved by 

 experiment that the true Salmon and the Common Trout are capable 

 of forming a cross, but the inquiry is not sufficiently advanced to 

 found any conclusions upon its results. — J.A.E.S. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



Heliothis peltigera in Yorkshire.— Several days ago, my friend 

 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke sent me a moth to identify which he had taken at Kilnsea- 

 in-Holderness on the 6th of the present month (September). My pleasure may 

 be imagined when I at once saw it was a specimen of Heliothis peltigera, a very 

 good species if taken anywhere in Britain, but especially interesting in this case, as 

 being not only quite new to the list of Yorkshire lepidoptera, but so far as I know 

 has never previously been recorded as occurring so far north in Britain. Mr. 

 Clarke (who has kindly given me the specimen) tells me he found it at rest on the 

 sandhills, and that when taken it was evidently freshly emerged from the pupa. 

 That being so, let us hope on future visits Mr. Clarke or others may be 

 fortunate enough to secure more specimens of so interesting an addition to our 

 county list. — Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield. September 14th, 1885. 



[Reference to Curtis' ' British Entomology ' shows that the species is not new 

 to Yorkshire, as that work gives 'York' as one of the localities in 'which the 

 insect had occurred. This record seems to have escaped notice when the List 

 of Yorkshire Lepidoptera was written. It appears to be, as stated in Stainton's 

 Manual, very rare, for there is not very much or very pi'ecise information accessible 

 as to where it has been taken. What little there is shows the distribution to be 

 eminently southern ; it is on record for Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucester, 

 Dorset, Hants, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex, all contiguous counties 

 lying along the south coast, while further north the records are for ' Wales,' 

 Cambridge, 'Birmingham,' Cheshire, and 'Manchester,' the two latter no doubt 

 being different ways of describing the same locality. The European distribution, 

 as given by Staudinger, corresponds, the species being a south-western one, not 

 extending into Holland, nor any further north than Southern Germany and 

 Hungary. — Eds.] 



Ennychia cingulalis, &c., at Helmsley . — Mr. James Terry, a 



collector of macro-lepidoptera, recently brought me a number of small things to 

 ' set ' for him, all of which — about thirty of them — I was pleased to recognise as 

 E. cingulalis. He had taken the species in great abundance in July, on the Terrace 

 at Rievaulx. Mr. Terry had also amongst his captures from the same neighbour- 

 hood Satyriis hyperanthus, Asthena blomeraria, and Venusia cambj-icaria; the 

 former he had noticed to be very common but local. — J. W. Carter, Valley Street, 

 Bradford, July 30th, 1885. 



Localities of CoUix sparsata and Eupithecia constriotata.— 



In the BibHography of 1884 — Lepidoptera, p. 291 — I find that Mr. Owen S. Wilson 

 has recorded Collix sparsata and Ezipithecia constriotata as being ' only met with in 

 Yorkshire.' I have not seen the original record in ' Land and Water,' but it may 

 be as well to correct such an erroneous impression in the 'Naturalist.' I have 

 taken C. sparsata on Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, where it is not uncommon. 

 E. constrictata is common at Witherslack in Westmoreland, and I have also had 

 it sent to me to name from Scotland. Both species do occur commonly in their 

 Yorkshire localities of course. — Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, Sept. loth, 1885. 



Oct. 1885. 



