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NOTES LEPIDOPTERA AND HEMIPTERA. 



Fam. NOCTUOPHAL&NID&. 

 PROTHEDES, Led. 



(Prothedes (Miana) expoiita, Stain t. Mr. Hodgkinson remarks 

 that this species probably occurs on Hamp's Fell, Grange ; it 

 certainly occurs on the borders of Lancashire.) 



PROTHYMIA, Hiibn. 



Prothymia viridaria, Clerck. ( = senea, W.V.) Common on the 

 moss-lands and some of the sandhills. 



Lane— Lytham (J.B.H.) ; Southport (G. T. Porritt, J.B.H., 

 W.J.); Simmonswood Moss (F.N.P., C.S.G.). 



Ches.— Bidston Hill (J.F.B.); Prenton (C.S.G.) ; Delamere 

 Forest (J.C.) ; Lindow Common, common (lb.). 



NOTE— LEPIDOPTERA. 



Lepidoptera near York.— On looking over Mr. Porritt' s 'List of 

 Yorkshire Lepidoptera ' I find that a few which I have taken have not been noted 

 for York since Mr. Stainton placed them in his ' Manual. ' 



Tephi'osia crepuscularia. — I took this insect in Acomb Wood from the bole of 

 an oak tree in 1882. 



Numeria pitlveraria. — This is another Geometer which I took in Acomb Wood 

 by beating a few years ago. 



Dicranura furcula. — -Is not given for York; I have taken it repeatedly. I 

 remember one occasion when the larvae were found very commonly on the round- 

 leaved sallow, Salix caprcra, in the York Nurseries ; I found them soon after hatching 

 and the eggs had invariably been laid in twos and threes on the upper side of the 

 leaves. 



Xanthia citrago. — This insect is not a very common one in any locality. I 

 remember some years ago beating a female out of some young lime trees in the 

 York Nurseries. 



Heliodes arbuti. — This pretty little insect I have taken in this locality. I found 

 it in the corner of a field near Hobmoor. It is a gentle flyer and settles on the 

 flower of the buttercup (Ranunculus acris and R. bulbosus). 



Coleophora paripennella. — Beating for larvae in September 1883, I came across 

 cases of a Coleophora which I did not know. I submitted them for Mr. Stainton's 

 inspection and he gave them the above name. I tried to rear them, but failed. 



Coleophora sicccefolia. — This rare case-bearer I was pleased to find in the 

 autumn of last year amongst birch in Askham Bogs. They were not plentiful, as I 

 only found two, and the case was formed of half a withered leaf, the remaining 

 half" being left unrolled up. 



Nemotois minimella. — The same evening that I found the siccafolia cases I 

 came across the place where this species was flitting. I had taken it before, but 

 had no recollection where.— Thos. Wilson, Holgate Nurseries, York, August 

 24th, 1886. 



NOTE— HEMIPTERA. 

 Triecphora vulnerata Illig. near Louth, Lincolnshire.— This 



pretty insect, known as the 'scarlet-hopper,' is very plentiful about the month of 

 June on the herbage by the sides of a certain hedge and ditch at Ken wick, near 

 Louth. It has also been found in two or three other localities in the district, but 

 not plentifully. — H. Wallis Kew, Louth, nth September, 1886. 



Naturalist, 



