93 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



Rain- 

 fan. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 



01 



neaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 







Fall. 





sea 

 level. 







1882. 



1881. 





HUDDEKSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 4-74 



25 



3311 



* 30-09 



5 



0-92 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



365 



8'11 



20 



48*55 



43-78 







Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



2*98 



30 



26-06 



t22-78 



3 



0-39 



HoKSFORTH . . . (James Fox) 



350 



4-00 



26 



32-66 



J30-02 



8 



0-47 



Barnslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



3-46 



25 



30-24 



23-78 



19 



0-56 



Ingbirchwoeth (do.) 



853 



8-65 



25 



44-56 



49-90 



19 



1-75 



Went WORTH Castle (do.)... 



520 



4-01 



24 



31-82 



28-56 



3 



0-61 



GIoole ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



2-68 



23 



29-45 



23-31 



3 



0-40 



Hull (Derringham) (Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



2-43 



23 



20-433 



27-79 



3 



0-35 



* Average to date for 16 years, 1866-81. f Average of 28 years, 1853-62 k 1865-82. 

 X Average of 13 years, 1870-82. 



Insect Captures in Scotland. — I send list of some of my rarer 

 captures in 1882. Coleoptera : — Anthophagus testaceus, Acidota crenata, 

 Telephorus Darwiniamis. Trichoptera : — Asynarchus ccenosus, Rhyacophila 

 obliterata. Lepidoptera : — Scotosia undulata, (1 believe not recorded as a 

 Scotch insect), Cedestis gijsselindla, not uncommon. — Alfred Beaumont, 

 Low Valleyfield, Culross, N.B., Dec. 1st. — [*S'. undulata is included in 

 Dr. F. B. White's " Lepidoptera of Scotland." See Scottish Naturalist, 

 Vol. iv., p. 221.— G. T. P.] 



An Undetermined Yorkshire Insect. — In looking over the volume 

 of the Naturalist for 1852, I found an extract from Ray, which may be of 

 interest to Yorkshire entomologists. It is contained in a letter from Mr. 

 J. C. Dale, asking the name of a fly which is very troublesome on the 

 tops of hills in different parts of England. The passage is as follows : — 

 I give the description of the insect in English, leaving its designation in 

 -the original Latin — Musca Apiformis montana, corpave hreviore, thorace 

 nigro abdomine aumdis nigris et ruhris alternis vario. This fly is some- 

 what shorter than the honey-bee with dark thorax, the abdomen marked 

 with alternate ring.s of black and red. The wings are grey, marked with 

 a black transverse line near the tips. I have found it on the high moun- 

 tains of Hinckelhaiigh (Ingleborough), near Settle, a small town in the 

 County of Yorkshire. It was very importunate and troublesome about 

 the mountain top. This insect has no sting, but a pair of forceps at the 

 tail, like those which are in the jaws of a caterpillar. It would be very 

 interesting to determine what fly is thus described, and any one living 



