158 Field Notes. 



lepidopterists to do their utmost during the present season to 

 discover that spot, that I write this note. Biciispis feeds 

 on birch as well as alder, but, compared with the latter, birch 

 seems to be a much less common tree at Scarborough. Both 

 should be worked, and the moth ought to be looked for on the 

 trunks from the middle of May to the middle (or even later) 

 of June ; the larvae on the leaves and twigs from the end of 

 July to the middle of September. — Geo. T. Porritt, Hudders- 

 field, 4th April 1904. 



Ophiusa stolida. — Should my old friend Mr. Porritt not 

 have written Leucanitis stolida (Staudinger, ed. 187 1, p. 136) or 

 Grammodes stolida (Guenee, ed. 1852, p. 276) instead of Ophiusa 

 stolida? ('The Naturalist,' December 1903, p. 461). It is of 

 light build inch expanse, both wings light violet brown, 

 with a prominent light band through both wings. Staudinger 

 gives its habitat as Europe m. (except Russia and ? x\ndalusia), 

 Carniola, Northern Africa, Asia Minor, and ? Armenia. Guenee 

 adds Dalmatia, Italy, Southern France, Senegal; and Emmerton 

 Gurant reports it from Ceylon. Two of my specimens (now in 

 the Hull Museum) are from Asia Minor ; the origin of a third is 

 unrecorded, but it does not differ. Guenee quotes the larva as 

 feeding on briar, and says ' assez rare,' but as I paid only about 

 2S. 6d. each for mine it seems fairly plentiful with better research. 

 — N. F. DoBREE, Beverley, East Yorkshire. 



I think not, although in these days of constant absurd 

 changes in nomenclature it is difficult to know what is right 

 outside one's own special department. I can find no reference 

 whatever to Leucanitis in my book on European Lepidoptera, 

 and, as the moth was made out as Ophiusa stolida both by 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett and myself, altogether independently of each 

 other, it may be taken, I think, that it is generally known by 

 that name. — G. T. P. 



CRVSTACEA. 



Euthemisto compressa (Goes) on the Holderness Coast. 



— This interesting crustacean was abundant, dead and alive, on 

 the tide mark at Withernsea and southwards, on 8th April 1904. 

 It was first taken on the British coast by Mr. T. H. Nelson in 

 February 1892 (see Nat., June 1892, p. 175), and identified by 

 Canon Norman (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, Vol. 9, p. 

 463). In the same journal, Ser. 7, Vol. 5, p. 132, Canon Norman 



Naturalist, 



