NOTE on DRAGONFLIES. 



Li be Un la quadrimaculata at Elland. On 2:1st April I had brought 

 to me a Dragonfly {Libellula quadrimaculata), and between that date and 

 4th May no less than seven different individuals came under my notice, 

 many of them having been caught in the streets. Mr. G. T. Porritt has 

 confirmed the specific identification forme. As this species had never been 

 noticed before in this district and none have been seen since, it would be 

 interesting to know the probable cause of this extraordinary appearance. — 

 J. E. Crowther, Elland, 8th July 1901. 



NOTES on LEPIDOPTERA. 

 Small Elephant Hawkmoth near Sleaford, South Lines.— In June 

 last I received a beautiful specimen of the Small Elephant Hawkmoth 

 {Chcerocampa porcellus). It was taken in a. house in Rauceby (near Sleaford), 

 Div. 14 West. — S. C. Stow, Court Leys, Brandon, Grantham, 22nd July 1901. 



Co/ias hyale near Grimsby. —I am pleased to report the occurrence 

 of Colias hyale in this district. — A. Smith, 5, Cavendish Street, Grimsby y 

 12th July 1901. 



[Could not details, time and place, be stated? — Eds. Nat.] 



Sphinx convolvuli near Doncaster.— On Tuesday, 16th July, I found 

 in our garden at Armthorpe a somewhat damaged specimen of Sphinx 

 cotivolvuli. It was on a wooden bridge under the shade of a Virginian 

 Creeper. — Agnes Eden, White House, Armthorpe, Doncaster, 28th July 

 1 901. 



Acherontia atropos at Blaxton, near Doncaster.— To-day I had 

 brought to me a living, fresh specimen of Acherontia atropos, which had been 

 caught on a bee-hive at Blaxton, near Doncaster, on the 7th inst. W T hether 

 the insect be an immigrant or a native (the produce of last autumn's larva) 

 will be a moot point. But the place of capture, a 'bee-hive,' is interesting- 

 in connection with the disputed question of A. atropos being a honey robber. 

 — H. H. Corbett, Doncaster, 8th June 1901. 



Arctia Jubricepeda var. radiata at Doncaster. — Yesterday, while 

 walking' in the heart of the town here, I noticed a boy playing with an 

 insect on the pavement. Looking to see what he had, I found a male var. 

 radiata in fairly.good condition. This var. having been bred by artificial 

 selection by collectors in many parts of Yorkshire during recent vears, 

 suggests the probability of my specimen being ' an escape from cultivation.' 

 Against this supposition I do not know of any radiata having been bred in 

 Doncaster. — H. H. Corbett, Doncaster, 10th June 1901. 



Life-History of Little Blue Butterfly near Wetherby.— The best 

 insect regularly occurring in the district is the Little Blue Butterfly (Chryso- 

 fihanus minimus), always common on the rough banks of road and rail 

 about Wetherby and Collingham. It flies in late May, but the pinky larvae 

 will now be found in the flower-heads of the Lady's Linger Vetch, where 

 they persist unchanging; till the pupation-time of Spring's first sunny days. 

 Anthyllis is common, and a few hundred heads can be carried home for 

 examination at leisure. — E. Arnold Lkes, Meanwood Lodge, Leeds, 1 5 f 1 1 

 July 190 1. 



Lepidoptera Observed in the Huddersfield District.— On the 27th 

 May I was searching for Lepidoptera at Dunford Bridge and boxed imagos 

 of Hadena glauca and some splendid dark forms of Fidonia atoniaria. 

 Larvae of Hypsipetes elutata were abundant on the bilberry, and I also 

 found a batch of ova of Qrgyia antiqua from which a quantity of larvae 

 have since hatched out. 



On the 28th May I visited Cavvthorne. " Most noticeable were hybernated 

 specimens of Vanessa urticw and the larwe of the same Species was also 

 common on the nettles. — W. E. L. Wattam, Newsome, Huddersfield, 11th 

 June iqor. 



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