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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS* UNION. 
very few, even of the commonest species, have been reported as 
abundant. The most noteworthy records are the following : — 
Sphinx convolvuH (the Convolvulus Hawk Moth), at Hoyland, 
near Barnsley, early in September, and a few Cymatophora Uuctuosa 
were taken in their usual habitat in June. 
Va?iessa io (the Peacock Butterfly), flying in profusion at 
Bardsey, August 15. 
Va7iessa cardui (the painted Lady Bntterfly), noticed at 
Middlesbro', Rombalds Moor and Cliff"e, near Selby, Edlington,, 
and Askern. 
A fine specimen of Chcerocampa celerio (the silver-striped 
Hawk Moth), was taken in a shop window at Wakefield, evidently 
attracted by light. " Stainton's Manual" reports this species as 
having occurred at Wakefield. 
A hermaphrodite Fidonia atomaria^ with one male and one 
female antenna, two fore and one hind wing, light, like the female, 
and the other dark, like the male, from Bradford. 
The capture on the wing of a specimen of the variety varleyata 
of Abraxas grossidariata at Huddersfield; the breeding of a brood 
of variety varleyata of Abraxas grossidariata at Huddersfield, the 
form breeding absolutely true; a black form of Fidonia atomaria on 
Harden Clough Moors, Huddersfield, and the occurrence of Teph- 
rosia bitmdularia at Huddersfield this year, where it had not been 
seen for probably forty years, and the capture of Seleida luriaria at 
the same place, where it is always a great rarity 
The capture of a beautiful lilac coloured variety (female), ot 
Smerinthus populi (the Poplar Hawk Moth), at York, from which 
a large batch of eggs was obtained, and these have been success- 
fully reared into the pupal stage. 
Sphi7ix ligustri (the privet Hawk Moth), has been taken both 
in the larval and imago stages at Hatfield, and Acronycta alni at 
Edlington, and several specimens of Cerigo cytherea have been 
taken at Edenthorpe. 
Twenty-six pupag of Amphidasis betularia (the Peppered 
Moth), obtained at Edlington last winter, produced this year 
seventeen specimens of the variety donble day aria ^ whilst nine 
specimens only were typical bettdaria. 
A male Orgyia gonostig7na was captured in Wheatley Wood, 
near Doncaster, early in September, and Calligefda miniata 
occurred at Sandall Beat, Doncaster. 
Black forms of Odontopera bidentata are recorded from Leeds 
and Barnsley for the first time. 
Mention should also be made of Mr. George T. Porritt's 
paper on Melanism in Yorkshire Lepidoptera," read before the 
