ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM HUDDERSFIELD. 



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



Huddersfield \ Preside?it of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; 

 Author of the List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera ; &>c. 



Among my captures during the season just over, are the following 

 additions to the Huddersfield list of Lepidoptera : — 

 Grapholita geminana. 



Not uncommon in Butter Nab Wood. 

 Ephippiphora brunnichiana. 



Abundant among coltsfoot at Birkby, and very variable in colour. 

 Penthina sauciana. 



Bred some beautiful specimens from larvae collected from 

 bilberry in the Netherton Wood. 

 Gelechia politella (expolitella). 



This very local species I found in plenty in the wood, and on 

 the adjoining moorland hillside overhanging Greenfield Railway 

 Station, in July. 



_rgyresthia conjugella. Common in the wood at Greenfield. 

 Coleophora nigricella. 



Abundant in Colonel Thomas Brooke's wood at Armitage 

 Bridge, and less commonly in the Greenfield Wood. 

 Tischeria complanella. 



Not uncommon in a wood at Brockholes, in June. 

 Lithocolletis salicicolella. Specimens I took in the Brockholes and 

 Greenfield Woods, Mr. Barrett believes to be this species. 

 A few notes on several other species may not be without interest. 

 In June, Mr. S. L. Mosley kindly took me to the spot where he last 

 year discovered Eupcecilia dubitana as new to the county list. We 

 found it again in plenty, and any number might easily have been 

 taken. About thistles in a field near, we also found several 

 Argyrolepia cnicana. In August, Scoparia coarctalis occurred in 

 profusion on the wall bounding the north side of the Huddersfield 

 Cemetery, and I set considerably over a hundred beautiful specimens, 

 including some I bred from larvae found in moss on the wall. A few, 

 but not many, S. muralis occurred with them, though on other walls 

 that species was common. Tortrix costana was also common about 

 docks just outside the cemetery. Acidalia inornata I found 

 commoner in its old haunt at Butter Nab Wood than I have seen it 

 for some years, but still in nothing like the abundance it occurred 

 there in 1875. Mr. Henry Stephenson found a specimen of Sphinx 

 convolvidi at rest in the town ; and I am informed that Mr. Winter- 

 mann took a very fine Acherontia atropos at Holmfirth. ______ 



Naturalist, 



