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so late might be led to believe. \Yliatever the cause may be 

 which leads them to defer nesting operations until so late in the 

 season, it certainly cannot be scarcity of food, as the estate 

 upon which they nest certainly furnishes ample, both furred 

 and feathered.— R. Fortune. 



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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Yorkshire Micro=Lepidoptera. — Mr. Francis Buckley, of 

 Greenfield, and his brother, who have worked the ^Micro- 

 lepidoptera of their district assiduously for several seasons, 

 some time ago brought me a number of specimens for examina- 

 tion, and afterwards sent me a full list of their captures. As 

 these include some very interesting species for Yorkshire, it is 

 time they were placed on record. 



Amphysa walker ana : — Common. 



Peronea comariana — Only recorded previously from Bram- 

 ham and Kildale in the county. 



PhlcBodes tetraquetrana — A quite black form of this common 

 species occurs frequently. 



Enchromia mygindana — ' Quite common.' 



Pamplusia monticolana — ' Common.' 



Coccyx cosmophorana — ' Common among small firs at Green- 

 field.' Previously only known as a Yorkshire species from 

 two specimens taken on Skipwith Common, by the Rev. C. D. 

 Ash, in 1903. 



Coccyx iistomaciilana — Abundant. 



Pyrodes rhediana — New to South West Yorkshire. 



Ochsenheimeria bisontella — Abundant ; previously only re- 

 corded from Huddersfield. 



Solenohia inconspicuella — Greenfield. 



Lithocolletis vacciniella. 



Mr. Buckley also told me that the black form of Fidonia 

 atomaria is of common occurrence on the Greenfield moors. — 

 Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield, October 12th, 1909. 



In the Scientific Proceedings of tlie Royal Dublin Society, Mr. M. A. C. 

 Hinton has a valuable paper ' On the Fossil Hare of the Ossiferous Fissures 

 of Ightham, Kent, and on the recent hares of the Lepus variabilis group.' 

 This is illustrated by views of the skulls, etc., and there are numerous 

 elaborate tables of measurements of bones. 



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