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on S'alsola Kali ; Bactra furfuraiia, taken this season near Dublin, by 

 the Rev. G. C. B, Madden, of Armitage Bridge ; several Cedestis gyssel- 

 inel/a, taken this season at Dollar, N.B. ; Pterophorus Bertrami, taken in 

 Carmarthenshire, and P. punctidadylus, in Cardiganshire, both by Mr. 

 Nelson M. Bichardson. — Geo. T. Porritt, September, 1882. 



BiNGLEY. — I quite confirm Mr. Carter's remarks about the past season 

 being a bad one generally for macro-lepidoptera. The comparative 

 scarcity of N , mvndana and P. pilosaria was very noticeable. A. meny- 

 anthidis, JSf. Dahlii, H. glauca, C. fernigata, and A. famata are the only 

 insects, as far as I remember, that occurred in their normal numbers. 

 D. tenuM, A. inornata, and an Eiipithecia, -perhaps fraxinota, one of each, 

 are the only additions for this locality. »b\ cmfcegalis was plentiful on 

 Blackhills, and not uncommon on the southern slopes of Harden Moor. 

 My brother was so fortunate as to secure Tinea fulvimitrella in Hawks- 

 worth Wood in June, thus adding another to the few already known 

 British localities. — E. P. P. Butterfield, Wilsden, Bingley, Nov. 9th. — 

 [Other Yorkshire localities for Tinea fulvimitrella are Bramham, Don- 

 caster, Botherham, Scarborough, and Sheffield.— G. T. P.] 



Cychrus rostratus at Grassington and Gilstead. — T took a single 

 specimen of this beetle at Grassington, on the 6th of last August, I 

 pulled up a small patch of Sediun acre to bring home, and out rolled the 

 beetle. I have also a specimen from Gilstead, in Airedale, taken by Mr. 

 Firth, last spring, from under a stone. — J. W. Carter, Bradford, 

 Nov. 16th. 



Cychrus rostratus at Huddersfield. — It may interest Mr. Roebuck to 

 know that last winter I took two specimens of this beetle in this district. 

 They were hybernating under stones. — S. L. Mosley, Huddersfield, 

 Nov. 15th. 



Sirex gigas at Huddersfield. — This autumn I had another Sirex gigas 

 brought to me from Almondbury, by the same person and from the same 

 place as the one last year.— G. C. B Madden, Armitage Bridge Vicar- 

 age, Huddersfield, October. 



Sphagnum Austini, SulL, in S.W. Scotland. — Mr. Jas. McAndrew 

 has a note in the Scottish Naturalist, No. xlviii, p. 378, that he has found 

 this moss and its var. imhricatum (of both of which he has kindly sent us 

 specimens), in large hassocks, on Moss Baplock, on the farm of Clatter- 

 ingshaws — the scene of one of Robert Bruce's victories. He also finds it, 

 but not in plenty, in Barend Moss, Laurieston, near Castle Douglas, and 

 in Auchencairn Moss, near Auchencairn. These are all in Kirkcudbright- 

 shire, and are new to prov. 13 of Watson. Its distribution is now, 

 therefore, 12, 13, 18 a.— C. P. H. 



The Effects of Weather on Insects : By Miss Ormerod {Concluded). 

 — The efi'ect of weather as a means of destroying insect eggs, was next 

 touched on, and it was laid down that the weather influence that seems 



