j'oRRn r: Yorkshire entomological notes. 



after the ' Freia " was ploughing her way through green seas towards 

 the Kibe, there passed the frequent wavings of handkerchiefs between 

 friends on board and friends on shore. The Germans have, unfairly 

 I always say, been called a stolid and cold-blooded race ; they are 

 certainly sufficiently demonstrative in their farewells. How soon, 

 I thought, beneath the flutter of countless handkerchiefs and shouts 

 of 'aiif wiedersehen,' might the dark battalions once more march 

 out to guard their frontiers ; it may be the prelude of triumph to 

 some, but assuredly it would be the commencement of a life-long 

 sorrow to the many. 



The return journey to Grimsby was altogether unev^entful, only a 

 few Herring Gulls being seen ; and soon after leaving the Elbe, the 

 body of a sailor drifted past — the very saddest sight since leaving home. 



YORKSHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



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

 Huddersjield ; Author of tJie List of Yorkshire Lepidopte7-a, etc. 



Mr. S. L. Mosley informs me that a specimen oi Apleda tincta was 

 found drying its wings, having just emerged from pupa, in Greenhead 

 Park, Huddersfield, during the past season. A specimen at Edling- 

 ton, Doncaster, is the only previously recorded occurrence in the 

 county, and it is not unlikely that the pupa of the Huddersfield 

 specimen was brought among the soil attached to the roots of some 

 tree or plant introduced into the park. Other additions to the 

 Huddersfield list are — Depressaria badiella, of which several speci- 

 mens were taken at Grimescar by Mr. G. W. K. Crosland, and for 

 which Redcar was the only previous Yorkshire locality ; Pcedisca 

 biliinana and Gelechia poUiella I took in the Netherton Wood ; this 

 latter local northern species has also occurred in the greatest pro- 

 fusion at Greenfield both seasons since the one I first found it there 

 in 1885. Additions for other localities are Dep7'essaria weirella at 

 York, a fine specimen of which I took off a ragwort bloom on the 

 night of August i6th, when collecting in company with Mr. G. C. 

 Dennis, thus adding another locality, it only being previously known 

 in the county from Saltburn. And in the current number of the 

 ' Entomologists' Monthly Magazine,' Mr. Eustace R. Bankes 

 announces the finding, at the beginning of October last, of larvae 

 of Neptiaila tormentillcB on Potentilla torme7itilla on the West 

 Riding moors. Mr. Stainton adds a note, suggesting that the species 

 may possibly be, not tormentillce, but the same as a specimen he 

 bred from the s:ime plant at Dunkeld twenty-seven years ago, and 

 which is still without name. In either case the species is new to the 

 countY list. _ _ ■ 



