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NOTES on YORKSHIRE LEPIDOPTERA. 



Nemotois fasciel/us at Medge Hall: an Addition to the York- 

 shire List of Lepidoptera. — On Monday, 4th August 1902, I found 

 Nemotois fasciellus F. { — schiffermillerella Schif.) at Medge Hall, near 

 Thorne. Its distribution in England, according to Meyrick, is ' Kent, 

 Suffolk, Cambridge, local.' This leaves a large hiatus from Cambridge to 

 Yorkshire, where no doubt the insect occurs, but has not been recorded. — 

 H. H. Corbett, 9, Priory Place, Doncaster, 15th August 1902. 



Vivat Melanargia galatea! — Having been informed by a friend of 

 a choice locality where this insect— the Marbled White Butterfly — still 

 occurs in our own county of York, I had the great pleasure of visiting this 

 place a few days ago, when I saw about thirty on the wing. 



I am not at liberty to divulge the exact locality, but for those desirous 

 of information I may add that the place is within an easy ride from the 

 ancient city of York. — Reginald H. Barker, Grosvenor Bank, Scar- 

 borough, 14th August 1902. 



NOTE on FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Marsh Helleborine in Mid-Cheshire. — During the last week of July 

 I found the Marsh Helleborine {Epipctctis palustris) flowering in profusion 

 in one part of Knutsford Moor, the low-lying morass at the head of Tatton 

 Mere, between the town of Knutsford and the railway. Associated with it 

 were the Fragrant Orchis (Gymnadenia conopsea), the Twayblade {Listera 

 ovata), the Spotted Orchis {Orchis maculata), and such marsh-loving plants 

 as Drosera rotundifolia , Pedicidaris palustris, Menyanthes trifoliata, and 

 Comarum palustre — the ' Pit Strawberry ' of the Cheshire country folk. The 

 Marsh Helleborine was recorded from Knutsford Moor in the third edition 

 of Withering's 'Botanical Arrangement of British Plants' (1796) on the 

 authority of A. Aitkin, of Warrington, but it does not appear to have been 

 noticed there by more recent Cheshire botanists, and Lord de Tabley 

 (' Flora of Cheshire,' p. 303) doubted its occurrence. Mr. Charles Bailey 

 has kindly confirmed my determination of the species. — Chas. Oldham, 

 Knutsford, 5th August 1902. 



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NORTHERN NOTES and NEWS. 



The inhabitants of Withernsea and other Holderness villages are greatly 

 concerned about their water supply. Water from borings in the Boulder 

 Clay is not the most satisfactory, and a suggestion that a supply should be 

 obtained from the Wolds is now being considered. 







The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, for 1901, 

 just issued to the members, contains a paper ' On an Ancient Model of 

 a Boat and Warrior Crew, from Roos Carrs, near Withernsea,' by Thomas 

 Sheppard, F. G.S. , who considers the curious relic to be of Scandinavian 

 origin and pre-Viking age. The same volume also contains a paper by the 

 Rev. C. V. Collier, F.SJv., on 'Further Notes from Old Burlington.'' In 

 the Churchwardens' accounts for 1669, quoted in this paper, an amount of 

 4d. is recorded as paid to ' Francis Harison ' for a ' Fowmart head.' 



At a recent meeting of the Geological Society of London, Mr. J. E. 

 Marr, F. R.S., exhibited some specimens from a metamorphosed metalli- 

 ferous vein several inches wide, which he had discovered in the basic 

 andesites near the Shap Granite, in a quarry close to the highroad, north 

 of the spot where it crosses Longfell Gill. The specimens are of interest 

 as showing the existence of metalliferous veins in Ordovician rocks which 

 have been formed in pre-Carboniferous times, for the Shap Granite which 

 has produced the alteration is itself pre-Carboniferous. 



Naturalist, 



