Short Notes and Queries. 



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Distribution of Tectura testudinalis in Yoekshire. — In the pages of 

 The Naturalist of Jan., 1879, I pnblislied the occurrence of the above 

 mollusc at Whitby, and laid claim to the honour of having discovered and 

 published its most southerly habitat. No sooner was this done than some 

 Leeds conchologists drew my attention to a record on this very shell in 

 the Supplement of Dr. Jeffrey's " British Conchology," which I had 

 overlooked. Since then I have had some correspondence with Dr. 

 Jeffreys, and incidentally this shell was mentioned. To Yorkshire 

 conchologists I am sure this paragraph of the doctor's letter will be 

 interesting: '^Mr. Leckenby got his Yorkshire specimens of Tectura 

 testudinalis from Staithes, together with Dogger Bank shells ; I believe 

 they were dead." Now as quaint old Staithes — where circumnavigator 

 Cook served his apprenticeship to a grocer — is a little fishing village ten 

 miles N.W. of Whitby, my claim is sustained. As no conchologist will 

 reckon flotsam and jetsam, even if from the Dogger Bank, as equal to the 

 shells which are gathered alive on their feeding grounds, I laid no claim 

 to a dead shell, which I found of this animal in Robin Hood's Bay, six 

 miles further south than Whitby. — Hy. Ceowthee,, Beeston Hill, Leeds. 



Larentia ruficindata &c., in Yorkshire. — Having seen, in the pro- 

 gramme of ihe Yorkshire Naturalists' Union's excursion on Sept. 1st, 

 that Zvlalham is supposed to be the only locality in Yorkshire for Larentia 

 ruficinctata, it may be of interest to your readers to know that I have 

 captured about Oughtershaw, Langstrothdale, in Craven, at an elevation 

 of 1200 feet above the sea-level, at the sources of the Wharfe, several 

 specimens of this insect, one at the beginning of August this year. I 

 have also taken Chortobius Davus in this district, smdErebia Blandina at 

 Buckden. — Trevor Basil Woodd, Oughtershaw Hall, Langstrothdale 

 Chase, Skipton. 



[Mr. Woodd has very kindly sent me specimens of the above for 

 inspection. The Erebia Blandina and Larentia rujicinctata are well- 

 marked specimens of the ordinary types ; but the C. Davus are very 

 curious. They are smaUer than any Davus I have noticed before, and 

 the markings are just about between the Thorne Waste specimens, 

 which are aK of the variety Rothliebii, and the Scotch form which is the 

 ordinary type of the species. They are, indeed, just what one would 

 expect a hybrid between G. Davys and G. Pamphilus would be ; and 

 as the large South European variety Lyllus, Esp., of G. Pamphilus 

 expands from 1 to 1^ inches, and has marginal eyes on the underside of 

 the hind wings, it is just possible these specimens may be referable to it. 

 A long series of Oughtershaw specimens must decide that. — G. T. P.] 



Scoparia conspicualis and Dicrorampha herbosana at Grassington. — I 

 took a Scoparia last June in Grass High Wood, Grassington, which 1 did 

 not recognize, and have had it in the corner of one of my store boxes 

 until last week, when I sent it to Mr. C. G. Barrett, along with a few 

 local Tortrices. He has, however, returned it me, named iS. conspicualis, 



