54 The Na^turalist. 



Ilatnfell fox %xxci,n%t. 





Heio-ht 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 

 of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amoimt 

 of 



neaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1881. 



1880. 



Fall. 



HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Eobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



4-33 



22 



19-54 



20-23 



25 



0-99 



HALrFAX...{F. Gr. S. Eawson) 



365 



6-00 



21 



29-66 



25-67 







Wakefield (E. B. Wriggles- 

 worth) 



100 



t 













Staxlet (do.) 



250 

 90 

 350 



t 













Thornes (do. ) 



t 













Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



3-64 



19 



15-37 



22-65 



23 



0-90 



Ingbirchworth (do.) 



853 



4-93 



26 



24-23 



27-53 



24 



0-90 



Wentworth Castle (do. ) . . . 



520 



4-05 



21 



18-36 



22-30 



23 



0-98 



GooLE ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



4-91 



20 



16-50 



18-51 



23 



1-44 



* This is the average to date for 15 years, 1866-80. f No retxirns. 



OccuRE-ENCE OF Spliinx convolwdi near Leeds. — On the 7th September 

 a female specimen of the convolvulus hawk-moth was brought to me 

 ahve, which had been found at Armley. Owing, however, to the captor 

 being ignorant of its value, it reached me in a very poor condition. — Wm. 

 Denisoi^ RoEBcrcK, Sunny Bank, Leeds. 



Entomological Notes.— On the 10th of August last, Mr. J. B. 

 Hodgkinson of Preston, brought to Huddersfield specimens of a Scoparia 

 which he had taken not uncommonly in the Lake District, and which is 

 evidently new. He proposes to call it *S'. conspicualis. This month too, 

 is announced a new "Piig," Eupithecia jasioneata. It was first bred by 

 Mr. Ficklin of Bristol, in 1879, from larvae he had found the previous 

 autumn, on seeds of Jasione montana, in North Devon. This was the 

 year I took Eupithecia innotata at Skegness ; and being in London the 

 following August, Mr. Ficklin sent me by his brother-in-law, Mr. W. H. 

 Grigg, two specimens of his Eupithecia to compare with innotata, which 

 at Mr. Grigg's request I had taken with me for that purpose. The* 

 Devonshire insect appeared to me to be a dark form of E. castigata, and 

 this was also the opinion of the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe and Mr. Buckler ; 

 and, as such the specimens have stood in my cabinet ever since. On 

 seeing the larva, however, Mr. Crewe at once saw it was quite distinct 



