1 6 Various Shoi't Notes. 



Pupa umbilicata. Knaresboroug-h ; Wetherby ; Boston Spa ; 

 Tadcaster. 



Vertigo pusilla. Three specimens under ivy on the top of 



a limestone wall between SpofTorth and Wetherby. 



Clausilia rugosa. Wetherby ; Thorp Arch ; Boston Spa ; 

 Bramham ; Tadcaster. 



Var. everetti. Wetherby ; Boston Spa ; Tadcaster. 



Var. tumidula. Wetherby ; Boston Spa ; Tadcaster. 



Clausilia laminata. Boston Spa. 



Azeca tridens. Boston Spa ; small wood and also in a lime- 

 stone quarry near Tadcaster. 



Zua lubrica. Thorp Arch ; Boston Spa ; Bramham ; Tadcaster. 



Achatina acicula. Boston Spa ; Tadcaster, on limestone tract. 

 Always empty shells. 



Carychium minimum. Boston Spa. [Shireoaks Wood, near 

 Tadcaster.] 



Cyclostoma elegans. Boston Spa. 



NO TES — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Acronycta aceris at Doncaster: an Addition to the Yorkshire 

 List of Lepidoptera.— Mr. L. S. Brady, of Sheffield, informed me he 

 found a larva, undoubtedly of Acronycta aceris, in Wadworth Wood, near 

 Doncaster, during- the first week of August last, making- the first record for 

 the species in the county. — Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 

 20th December 1899. 



Mamestra abjecta and Epunda Jutulenta in Yorkshire.— Both 

 these species, of rare occurrence in the county, have been taken during 

 the past season at Middlesbrough by Mr. T. A. Lofthouse. Of M. abjecta 

 only several specimens occurred, but E. lutulenta was not uncommon, in 

 both cases 'at sugar in the garden.' E. lutulenta was previously only 

 recorded from York many years ago. M. abjecta has also been taken 

 during the past season at Skipwith, near Selby, by the Rev. C. D. Ash. — 

 Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 20th December 1899. 



Unusual Abundance of Vanessa atalanta and Macroglossa 

 stellatarum in Yorkshire.— It may be as well to place on record that 

 these two species were unusually plentiful in Yorkshire, as in other parts of 

 the country, during the past season. V. atalanta appears to have been 

 greatly in evidence everywhere, but M. stellatarum, though scattered all 

 over the county, was probably nowhere in the profusion in which it occurred 

 in the southern counties. Both species formed a pretty feature about the 

 flowers in my own g-arden, where also another butterfly, Vanessa to, now 

 rarely seen in the Huddersfield district, occurred, though it was very scarce 

 as compared with V. atalanta. Mr. Thomas Bunker sent me two larva; of 

 Acherontia atropos from Goole, with the information that they were not 

 uncommon in the potato fields there this season. — Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Crosland Hall, Huddersfield, 27th December 1899. 



Naturalist, 



