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and beat a few from spruce firs in Grass high wood. Mr. Carter and 

 myself took TorUix icterana commonly at the same place last June. — 

 E. P. P. BuTTERFiELD, Wilsden, August 20th. 



— Lepidoptera in Abbott's Wood, Sussex. — On May 23rd, in company 

 with Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, of Worthing, I had a few hours' collecting 

 in Abbott's Wood, Hailsham. We hoped to get a good series of Agrotera 

 nemoralis, but it seemed to be only just getting out, as only four specimens 

 were beaten out of the hornbeams. The season indeed seemed to be as 

 late as here in the north, and many species I took there near the same 

 date some years ago were not seen at all. Those taken or observed 

 included Gonepteryx rhamni, common ; Argynnis Euphrosyne, abundant ; 

 SyricMhus Alveolus, Thanaos Tages ; Nola cristulalis, at rest, head down- 

 wards as usual ; Venilia maculata and Tephrosia consonariq, both 

 common ; Ephyra pendularia, Asthena candidata, abundant ; Eupitliecia 

 plumheolata, very fine ; E. ahhreviata ; Coremia propugnata ; Platypteryx 

 lacertida and P. falcula ; Herminia barhalis, common ; Ennychia odo- 

 maculalis ; Roxana arcuana, &c., &c. — Geo. T. Porritt. 



— Occurrence of Chesias ohliquaria at Doncaster. — I was engaged 

 setting some captures on the 14th of June, rather late, with the window 

 before me partly open, when I became aware of the presence of moths 

 attracted by the gaslight, by their scorched bodies falling on the table in 

 front of me. Looking up, I saw several moths at the window and on the 

 wall, on capturing which I was surprised to find a fine fresh G. ohliquaria. 

 This is, I believe, the first record of its occurrence in Yorkshire. — 

 G. TiNDALL, July 24th, 1883. 



BOTANICAL QUERIES.— Referring to the Naturalist of the past 

 month of August, under " Short Notes and Queries," page 20, would 

 not the old name of Epipactis ensifolia be better expressed by Gephalan- 

 thera e^isifolial Those, like myself, who take the " Student's Flora " as 

 the standard work on British plants think so, [Both names were sent to 

 us, and we, unfortunately, crossed out the later one, and did not 

 notice it until too late. — Eds. Nat.] — In the same part, under "Reports 

 of Societies," Ptucedanum officinale, a very rare plant of salt marshes, 

 and known previously to occur at only two or three south-coast stations, 

 is recorded for Thorne Waste. If a Peucedanum at all, is it not more 

 likely to be Peucedanum palustre 1 — At the Bank Holiday Meeting, Aug. 

 6th, of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, in the Washburn Valley, three 

 good plants were observed, viz. — Viola tricolor, sub-sp. lutea, var. 

 ammna ; Garex paniculata ; and Asplenium Geterach. Some of us won- 

 dered why these do not appear among " The Rarer Plants of the 

 Washburn Valley District," given in "West Yorkshire." — P. F. Lee, 

 Sec. Bot. Sect., Y.N.U. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS, &c.— The British Moss-Flora, by Dr. 

 Braithwaite, Part VII." — We have now received another part of this 

 grand work, containing part iii. of the DicranaceoQ, and must at once take 



