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Vanessa cardui. Both in the imago and larval state by J. E. 

 Crowther, of Elland. Pocklington (Leadman). Ilkley 

 (J. Wigin). Abundant at Wilsden (E. P. P. Butterfield). 

 Abundant at Beverley (J. R. Lowther). Fairly common at 

 Barnsley (A. Whittaker). 



Erebia medea. Common at Grassington, its only Yorkshire 

 locality; there, according- to Mr. F. Booth, it is very local, 

 and occurs in different portions of the wood in different 

 years (F. Booth, H. Phillipson, and H. Mousley). 



Satyrus seme/e. Very common near Kirbymoorside (Arthur 

 Angel). 



Chortobius davus. Several obtained on Thorne Moor by J. 

 Porter and J. Boult, of Hull. 



Thecla w -album. Larvae abundant at its Yorkshire head- 

 quarters, Edlington and Wadworth Woods. 



Lycsena ages t is. Sled mere (W. Hewett). 



Lycsena argiolus. Common at its principal Yorkshire habitat 



near Rotherham. 

 Syrichthus alveolus. Kirbymoorside (Arthur Angel). 

 Thanaos tages. Twelve specimens taken on 4th June on the 



railway embankment near Cherry Burton (J. R. Lowther). 



Hylton, 10th June (W. Sachse). 



NOCTURNE 



Acherontia atropos. See 'Yorkshire Post.' Hovingham Hall, 

 August (Worsley). Boston Spa, 19th August (Prince). 

 Two larvae, Ripon (Smith). Fifteen larvae at Beverley 

 (Boves). Keighley, 30th August (Longton). An imago, 

 30th August, Horsforth. Larvae, Netherton (White). One 

 imago at the, electric light, St. Sampson's Square, York, 

 22nd October (J. Hawkins). One larva at Beningbrough 

 (W. Hewett). Larvae at Goole (W. Roper). Bridlington 

 (Hobson). Normanton (Townsend). Skipwith (C. D. 

 Ash). One larva at Haxby (Thurgood). Several larvae at 

 Pocklington. Plentiful all over the I lull district; Mr. 

 Chapman had eleven do/on larvae sent from Kilnsea (J. 

 Boult). Three larva- ;it Stanley, near Wakefield (W. ti. 

 Charles). One larva at Newton-on-Ouse, near York (J. 

 Hawkins). Pickering, two larvae (Metcalf). From August 

 to October larvae were frequently brought to me by 'potato 

 pickers ' ; through forcing I have bred several imagines 

 from these; Doncaster ( 1 1. II. Corbett). Some 50 larva 1 

 and pnp;e obtained at Beverley, four of which 1 secured 



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