42 Yorkshire Naturalists* Union : Annual Report , 1921. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Lepidoptera (B. Morley). — The past season has been almost as bad 
for lepidoptera as was the previous one. The effect of the mild winter 
was such that a large emergence of Phigalia pedaria in the Skelman- 
thorpe district was worn out before the end of January, and in the same 
month Hybernia rupicapraria, H . leucophaearia , H. margin aria and 
Anisopteryx aescularia all appeared. Subsequently many common 
species were out two or three weeks earlier than usual. G. T. Porritt 
found A crony eta meny anthidis well out on the Meltham Moors at the end 
of April, and also found ova of Hadena glauca in the first week in May ; 
both exceptionally early dates. Both in Elland Park Wood and Deffer 
Wood* larvae of Triphaena fimbria were in great abundance during 
April, as also were those of Bombyx callunae and Agrotis agathina on a 
heath near Penistone in June. In May, W. Buckley caught a fine 
Cidaria suffumata var. porrittii near Clayton West, at the same time and 
place I took a female Cidaria truncata from which a series of the var. 
rufescens has been bred — a form not previously noted for the county 
excepting for a specimen taken at Bawtry by Dr. Smart many years ago. 
In June, Herbula cespitalis was taken for the first time in the Skelman- 
thorpe district, where also about mid -summer Phoxopteryx myrtillana , 
Tortrix paleana, T. viburnana, Amphysa gerningana, Penthina sauciana, 
Sciaphila conspersana and Hedy a neglectana were plentiful, and during 
September Peronea sponsana abounded among sycamore in the South- 
west Riding. Hypermecia angustana was beaten out of sallow at Elland 
in July. Mr. Porritt notes the abundance of Carpocapsa pomonana 
feeding in apples in his garden at Huddersfield, where he has not pre- 
viously noticed it, and Dr. Smart notes the capture of Ap led a occulta near 
Shelley in September. 
A noteworthy feature of the hot summer has been that the heat has 
stimulated many species into two and, in a few cases, even three broods. 
On the moors, in the middle of August, Anarta myrtilli, Phycis fusca and 
A crony da meny anthidis were out in some numbers in second broods, when 
a fine melanic form of the last named was found, a very unusual occurrence 
with this species on the South-west Riding moors. Pionea forficalis 
appeared twice, and Dr. Smart noted a partial third brood of Scoparia 
murana and a plentiful third brood of Symaethis oxycanthella was out in 
early September near Skelmanthorpe . Dr. Smart also had a complete 
second brood of Smerinthus populi reared out of doors entirely. 
In the West Riding the three ‘Whites’ have never even been numerous, 
Polyommatus phaeas has always been about all the summer, seemingly 
continuous brooded. Lycaena icarus became very common near Skel- 
manthorpe by the middle of June, and a specimen taken on September 
18th almost suggests a third brood of this species. During September, 
also, Vanessa urticae V. io, V. atalanta and V. cardui were plentiful in 
many parts of the West Riding. Recently, T. H. Fisher, of Skelman- 
thorpe, gave to me a specimen of Incurvaria tenuicornis taken near his 
house in June, 1919, this being the third recorded specimen for the county, 
and he also gave me a specimen .of Chrysoclista bimacule lla taken near 
Penistone in June, 1919, only previously recorded for Yorkshire from 
York. 
Coleoptera (W. J. Fordham) : — As far as is known at present, 
twelve species can be added to our list ; 2 from Cleveland, 7 from 
the Scarborough District, one from West Yorks, and two from the East 
Riding. Of outstanding rarity is the beetle Heptaulacus villosus Gyll. 
taken by M. L. Thompson at Redcat. The brilliant Cardbus nitens L. 
has turned up again this year in various localities, as also its moorland 
* In Deffer Wood, also, larvae of Xanthia aurago were common in May. 
Naturalist. 
