THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 148.] 
LOCAL FAUNAS. 
We called attention last week to a 
work which had recently appeared on 
the Natural History of Huddersfield) 
in which twenty-eight pages are de- 
voted to the Botany of the district, 
a complete list of the plants occurring 
there being given, with the localities 
of all the more local species. 
A similar list is given of the Lepi- 
doptera of the district, and as this 
extends to twenty pages, it must be a 
great boon to the entomologist residing 
near Huddersfield, several of whom 
have contributed their quota to swell 
i the list. 
We certainly deduce from the pe- 
rusal of this list that Storthes Hall 
is a good locality ; but we quite agree 
with the Editor that many Micros 
will yet reward a successful searcher 
there. For instance, we see no men- 
tion of our little friend Asychna ter- 
tminella; yet there are damp woods at 
; Storthes Hall, and Circcea lutetiana 
growing in them. If Mr. Inchbald, or 
any one else who has access to these 
woods, will critically examine the leaves 
of that plant towards the end of next 
[Price Id. 
month we believe he will find the 
concentric, spiral mines of the little 
gem Terminella. 
Again, JEgopodium podagraria is 
plentiful at Storthes Hall, and we 
entertain no doubt that Chauliodus 
Illigerellus is likewise domiciled there. 
We might multiply similar observa- 
tions ad nauseam , but our desire has 
simply been to call the attention of 
the Huddersfield collectors to the fact 
that this list, serviceable as it is, is 
far from complete, and that, aided by 
the list of plants given in the volume, 
it ought to be an easy matter to add 
thirty or forty species to the list an- 
nually for some time to come. 
At the same time we must caution 
the younger readers of the book not 
to believe every statement they see in 
print there ; for instance, at p. 148, 
we read that of Demas Coryli the 
female is apterous; now this is either 
a mistake or an extraordinary effect 
produced on the species by the climate 
of Huddersfield. We are aware that 
soil and climate are apt to cause great 
variety in the colour and sometimes 
in the size of insects, and Mr. Wol- 
laston has shown that in Madeira some 
species actually lose their wings, yet 
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1859 
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