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NOTES — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Limenitis sibilla at Langton, liorncastle. — I have to record that 

 a White Admiral Butterfly was taken in my churchyard on Wednesday, the 

 i ith July inst., by a friend of mine. It escaped from him again, but he had 

 sufficient time to examine it, and is himself an authority, having- a large 

 collection. — J. Conway Walter, Langton Rectory, Horncastle, 23rd 

 July 1900. 



Red Admirals and Death's Head Moth at West Ayton.— The 



seasons seem to be curiously out of joint. From 15th to 24th June I have 

 had many Red Admiral Butterflies ( Vanessa atalanta) in the garden, and 

 yesterday, 25th June, a man brought me a fine Death's Head Moth 

 {Acheroutia atropos) taken here, and apparently very freshly emerged. — 

 W. C. Hey, West Ayton, 27th June 1900. 



Lime-Hawkmoth at Cottingham. — Mr. H. Vickers, of Beverley, 

 obtained from the roots of a lime tree at Cottingham a pupa of a Hawk- 

 moth which he reserved for me. Unfortunately, during his absence from 

 home, the moth had emerged and escaped, but, on seeing the pupa-case, 

 I at once pronounced it to be one of Smerinthiis Mice. According to Barrett's 

 'British Lepidoptera,' there is only one record of the occurrence of this 

 species in Yorkshire. — J. R. Lowther, Crane Hill, Beckside, Beverley, 

 9th July 1900. 



Argynnis euphrosyne near Kendal. — I know not whether the fact 

 be worth record, being now a very ' rusty' entomologist, but, botanising in 

 Park Spring" and Cunswick Wood, two miles N.W. of Kendal, on 28th May 

 last, my eyes were delighted by the larg-e number of brilliantly-tigerine 

 just-emerged Argynnidse flying' in the sun and settling with expanded wings 

 on the violet leaves. I had no net, but the species was about two inches in 

 expanse of wing, and had only one silvery spot on the tawny underside. — 

 F. A. Lees, Leeds, nth June 1900. 



NO TES — FISHES. 

 Unusual Coloration of Flounder. — Whilst fishing in the river Hull, 

 near Beverley Lock, on the 6th of June, I caught a Flounder (Pleuronectes 

 ftesus) the under-side of which was exactly the same colour as the upper- 

 side generally is. I have never seen such a variety before, but Mr. T. 

 Skinner, a local angler, tells me he caug-ht one last year which was white 

 on both sides. — J. R. Lowther, Crane Hill, Beckside, Beverley, 9th July 

 1900. 



Eel-Skins in Lincolnshire Folk-Medicine.— I enclose herewith 

 a thong of col-skin used as a g-arter. The skin of eels is used to keep 

 off attacks of ague, rheumatism, and sciatica. Its use is now nearly given 

 up, but a generation or two ag"o our fen-men mostly gartered their long 

 Worsted stockings with such thongs. One old man we knew used to wear 

 plaited bands of like stuff round his wrists. Fine-cut strips were used as 

 thread to sew on 'breeches and overcoat buttons. This practice is also 

 obsolescent, if not altogether abandoned by our local tailors. The custom 

 died when the doe and buckskin breeches went out. of fashion. — Max 

 rEACOCK, The Manor, Bottesford, 12th July 1900. 



Sturgeon in the Trent at Althorpe. On Monday, [6th July, 

 a Sturgeon {Acipcnsor s/urio), or, as our local folk call it, 'Stogun. was 

 found in the river Trent at Althorpe, Lincolnshire (Div. 1). It seemed to 

 have been killed by (he screw or paddles of a steamboat. Length 7 ft. 3 in.. 

 Weight (> st. These fish seldom come up our river, but on occasion they 

 get into our warping drains. The officials of the Crown claim them as 

 a rule, but in several eases they belong absolutely to the lord of the 

 manor. This fish was quite fresh, and was at once claimed bv the Customs 

 authorities, who had it buried.— Max Peacock, The Manor, Rottosford, 

 Lincolnshire, -'3rd Julv 10,00. 

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