BIBLIOGRAPHY : LEPIDOPTERA, 1885-6-7. 69 



Stephen Pegler. Nottinghamshire. 

 Chaerocampa celerio at Retford [in November 1884]. Ent., April 1885, 

 xviii. 121. [Another occurrence]. Ent., Nov. 1885, xviii. 293. 



F. N. Pierce. ? Lancashire or Cheshire. 



A New Geometer [Oporabia approximaria Gregs., sp. nov. ; not described ; 

 locality not stated]. Voung Nat., Feb. 1885, vi. 48. 



F. N. Pierce. Lancashire, Cheshire. 



Butterflies around Liverpool [Notes on the unusual occurrence of Vanessa 

 cardtii^ V. atalanta, V. io, Satynis megara, and S. ageria in 1884]. Young 

 Nat., April 1885, vi, 92-93. 



F. N. Pierce and G. A. Harker. Cheshire. 

 Easter at Hartford [numerous lepidoptera enumerated as captured]. Young 

 Nat., June 1885, pp. 120-123. 



F. N. Pierce. Lancashire, Cheshire. 



Are Butterflies disappearing from the British Isles? [refers to Argynnis 

 aglaia occurring at Southport in profusion in 1 884, and not found at all in 

 1885; to Vanessa io in various Lancashire and, Cheshire localities; and to 

 Satyriis megara not having decreased in 1885 as compared with 1 884, in 

 Cheshire and Lancashire]. Young Nat., Nov. 1885, vi. 260. 



F, N. Pierce. Lancashire. 

 Variety of Triphaena pronuba [varying in colour of left posterior wing ; bred]. 

 Ent., May 1886, xix. 128 ; also see note with same heading in Young Nat., 

 Aug. 1885, vi. 192. 



F. N. Pierce. Durham. 

 Notes on a Holiday in Suffolk [with comparison ot Durham and Suffolk 



Cranibus perlelhis at p. 214]. Young Nat., Nov. 1886, vii. 213-218. 



Geo. T. Porritt. Yorkshire. 

 Further Notes on British Pterophoridae [ ; referring to the habits of 

 PteropJioi-ns inonodactyhis, P. acavthodactylus^ and P. bipiinctidaciylus, as 

 observed near Huddersfield]. Ent. Mo. Mag., Feb. 1885, xxi. 207-8. 



Geo. T. Porritt. Yorkshire. 

 Arctia mendica feeding" on Birch [in Green Farm Wood near Doncaster, 

 where Phycis beticlella in plenty and a few Coleophom ciirrucipennella were 

 also taken]. Ent., June 1885, xviii. 194. 



Geo. T. Porritt. Yorkshire. 

 Heliothis peltigera, etc., in Yorkshire [taken by W. E. Clarke at Kilnsea in 

 Holderness, Sep. 6th, and new to Yorkshire Fauna ; H. marguiata, larvae 

 near Scarborough, Aug. 31st ; Sphinx convohnli \n ffudderstield town, Aug. 

 22nd]. Ent., Oct. 1885,' xviii. 264. 



Geo. T. Porritt. Lancashire. 

 Lepidoptera at Southport [in mid-Aug. 1885 : refers to Agrotis tritici, A. 

 aquilina, A. obelisca, occurring together along with A. vestigialis ( valligera J, 

 A. cursor ia^ and A. priccox also Phytonietra irnca and Leiiconia saliiis\ 

 Ent., Nov. 1885, xviii. 300. 



[G. T. Porritt.] Lancashire. 

 [Melanic variety of an Agrotis, probably ^^^.t^'/Zx obelisca Hiibn., taken at 

 Southport; exhibited to Ent.. Soc.]. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., Dec. 2nd., 

 1885, p. xxxiii. ; Ent. Mo. Mag., ]-xx\. 1886, xxii. 188. 



G. T. Porritt. Yorkshire. 

 Bryotropha [Gelechia] politella in Yorkshire [common near Greenfield]. 



Ent., Jan. 1886, xix. 16. 



March 1888. 



