Short Notes and Queries. 



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with its curious angle-shaped but less bright berries, and the privet, with 

 its bunches of jet-black fruit ; and in going through one of the clearings 

 we saw several bunches of primroses. Our object, however, was entomo- 

 logical, and applying the usual beating-stick, we dislodged hundreds of 

 Oporabia dilutata, both in good and bad condition ; and entangled in 

 spiders' webs in yew-tree trunks, several Bimera pennaria ; at rest, one 

 Xanthia ferruginea, and the larvse of Abraxas ulmata, about three- 

 quarters grown, in abundance. Another species of insect appeared also 

 in full force, which I never observed before, on almost every tree trunk — 

 some high up, others low down ; and it is principally my object, in 

 sending you this short note, to ascertain the name of this insect. I send 

 you a specimen. They are in appearance like a bright green grass- 

 hopper with a conspicuous ovipositor. One always associates with the 

 grasshopper a bright hot sunny day, a grassy common, a peculiar burring 

 noise, and a sudden spring. Those 1 saw the other day were crawling 

 lazily up the tree trunks, and if only just touched, down they came like 

 a bit of stick or a leaf. — Jxo. Harrison, 7, Victoria Bridge, Barnsley, 

 Nov. 10th. — [We have noticed this grasshopper on the trees at Edlington 

 Woods repeatedly, but are not sure what species it is. — Eds. Nat.] 



— A Trichopteron I found on the Marsden moors, near Huddersfield, 

 in Sej)tember last year, and again in abundance on the same spot last 

 September, has been named for me by Mr. McLachlan, F.R.S., as 

 Stenophylax coenosus of Curtis. It seems to be a local species in Britain, 

 and our form differs from the Continental types of the same insect. 

 Recently I received a nice series of Pteruphorus parvidactyhis from 

 Bristol ; also F. teucrii, taken in Norfolk. — GEO.i^T. Porritt. 



— Barnsley. — The increased mildness of the season has allowed many 

 observations to be made full of interest to the entomologist. Abraxas 

 ulmata, the larva of which was noted during the latter part of October, 

 has been seen on the wing several times this month, thus favouring the 

 idea of its being double-brooded. Cerastis spadicea, Calocampa exoleta, 

 &c., have come to sugar ; Eybernia aurantiaria, E. defoliaria, Cheimatobia 

 boreata, Oporabia dilutata, and others have been seen freely on the wing, 

 having, however, a much more animated appearance than is usually the 

 case in our cold locality. — W. E. Brady. 



Notes on a few common Yorkshire Spiders. — In my note-books I 

 find notes on some common spiders which I happen to know by sight, 

 and as — common though they he— two of them have never been placed on 

 record for the county, I venture to supply the omission. I do not, how- 

 ever, profess to know anything about spiders in general, and the few 

 which I have noted are species which are readily recognisable, and 

 impossible to mistake. At various times I have been interested in 

 observing the habits of the zebra or hunting spider {Salticus scenicus), 

 which is not at all uncommon, in Leeds and at Pannal. It affords a very 



