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LEPIDOPTERA, ETC., ON THE NORTH-EAST COAST 

 OP YORKSHIBE, IN AUGUST 1886. 



GEO. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., 



H uddersfield \ Fellozv and Member of Council of the Etitomological Society of London; 

 Author of the Yorkshire List of Lepidoptera ; etc. 



From the nth to 25th August last I spent on the north-east coast 

 of our county, from the 13th to 23rd having the company of 

 Mr. George C. Dennis, of York. We did our best to work out the 

 lepidopterous fauna of the districts between and around Saltburn 

 and Redcar, making the former place head-quarters. This we found 

 very convenient, as trains ran very frequently throughout the day to 

 Marske and Redcar, and what was equally important, trains also 

 returned from Redcar to Saltburn sufficiently late at night to enable 

 us to thoroughly work the sand-hills there with our lamps after dark. 

 Our night-collecting was chiefly done on the sand-hills from Marske 

 to Redcar, and in a pretty ravine, having a thick and varied under- 

 growth of plants and shrubs, at Saltburn ; whilst our day-work, besides 

 these localities, included the woods beyond the Saltburn Pleasure 

 Gardens, on the way to Skelton. One day was also devoted to the 

 extensive woods of Sir Charles Lowther, several miles inland from 

 Redcar \ and on another day a rather profitless journey was made to 

 Skinningrove. The district altogether proved very disappointing so 

 far as lepidoptera were concerned, for •although some interesting 

 species — on account of their local variation, etc. — were taken, 

 nothing of any rarity turned up. As this part of the county seems 

 to have been worked very little by Yorkshire lepidopterists, we have 

 thought it advisable to give a list of all the species we remember to 

 have noticed, those marked with a * being previously unrecorded for 

 the district. 



Pier is rapce., Satyrus jatiira^ and Lyccena aiexis, common ; 

 '^Hepialiis sylvimis^ very small specimens ; Euchelia jacobcsce^ larvae 

 abundant on the sandhills ; Riimia cratcegata, Metrocampa margari- 

 tata^ common ; Odontopera bidentafa, larva ; Crocallis elingtiaria, 

 common ; A niphydasis betularia^ larva ; Boarinia repandata, an 

 almost smoky black form on the cliffs ; B. rhomboidaria ; Acidalia 

 scutulata and A. bisetata, common ; A. incanaria, abundant ; A. 

 avers ata ; Abraxas grossulariaia ; Larentia didywata, abounded 

 everywhere ; *Z. pectinitaria ; Hypsipetes elutata, the black form 

 not uncommon in the wood at Saltburn ; "^Melanthia rubigi?iata., 

 Saltburn ; Melanippe flitctiiata ; Campt0gramma bilijteata, abundant ; 

 Cidaria russata, dark form ; C. i?nmanata, common and in nice 

 variety ; C. fulvata ; Eubolia fuensttraria, abundant, one very dark 



March 1887. 



