Shokt Notes and Queries. 117 



Rainfall fox gmmhr. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 

 sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 faU. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



neaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1881. 



1880. 



Fall. 



HUDDEKSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Kobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In 

 2-99 



16 



33-15 



* 33-55 



17 



0-53 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Rawson) 



365 



5-50 



19 



49-28 



48-77 







Baknsley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



2-47 



16 



25-81 



39-52 



16 



0-.50 



Ingbikchwokth (do.) 



853 



4-23 



23 



43-13 



48-85 



19 



0-65 



Wentwoeth Castle (do. ). . . 



520 



3-18 





31-74 



40-49 



16 



0-67 



GooLE ... (J. Hakeison) ... 



25 



1-98 



17 



25-29 



32-37 



19 



0-43 



Hull (D erringham) . . . ( Wm . 



Lawton) 



10 



2-12 



17 



22-55 



25 -961 



19 



0-41 



* This is the average to date for 15 years, 1866-80. 

 J This is the annual average for the 30 years, 1850-79, on 151-5 days, on 202 days. 

 Coeeection : — In Huddersfield return for October, "Total fall to date," should read 

 26-81, not 26-18, as printed. No. of rainy days in 1881—177 ; average for 

 15 years, 187-7.— J. W. E. 



Eupithecia extensaria at Spuhn. — During a conversation I had with 

 Mr. Prest of York, three weeks ago, he informed me he had recently- 

 detected in a lot of insects taken by Mr. Buck, a specimen of Eupithecia 

 extensaria. Mr. Buck secured it on Artemisia at Spurn, about ten years 

 ago. There seems no reason to doubt the genuineness of this capture, 

 and if so, from the locality in which it was taken, its claim to be con- 

 sidered a British species is much strengthened, the only other recorded 

 British capture being that by Mr . Sawyer, "on waste ground near 

 Hull," in June, 1873. In that case, the many facilities for accidental 

 importation made it most desirable that other specimens should be 

 observed, to at all justify its having a place on our list. — Geo. T. 

 PoEKiTT, January, 18th. 



The Teeb-Grasshoppee {Meconema varia, Fab.) — This is the name of 

 the grasshopper which Messrs. Harrison and Porritt have noticed so 

 commonly on the trees in Edlington Wood, Doncaster (see Natm-alist^ 

 vii., 83, Dec, 1881), and of which Mr. Porritt was good enough to give 

 me a specimen. I sent it to Senor Dr. Ignacio Bolivar, of Madrid, who 

 is one of the foremost of European authorities on orthopterous insects, 

 and author of a " Catalogus Orthopterorum Europse et confinium," and 

 numerous other works. He pronounced the insect to be Meconema varia, 

 and reminded me that in 1829 Mr. J. F. Stephens recorded it as occurring 

 near London. I have since looked up various works, and find that the 



