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A List of the Yorkshire Lepidopteba : by George T. Poeritt, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S. Second Edition (Ent. Trans. York. Nat. Union). 8vo, pp. 2R9. London : 

 A. Brown and Co., Limited. 1904. 



Near about 20 years [c/. Ent. Mo. Mag. (1), xx, p. 89] have elapsed since Mr. 

 Porritt and certain colleagues published the first edition of this List. It is natural 

 that during that time much has been done. The greater part of the work consists 

 of a List with additional records of new species, notes on variation, &c. Fifty-three 

 species (one or two slightly doubtful) hare been added ; and much has been done in 

 elucidating that curious feature of melanism so prominent, and yet so little under- 

 stood, in the Lepidoptera of our lai-gest county. That Mr. Porritt and his fellow 

 workers have done well goes without saying. 



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Lancashire, Cheshire, and Manchester Entomological Societies : 

 February \?>th, 1904. — The first ordinary gathering of the current session took the 

 form of a joint meeting of the two Societies, which, by the kind invitation of 

 Dr. HoTLE, was held in the Museum, Owen's College, Manchester. The President 

 of the Manchester Society, Dr. W. E. HoyLE, presided. 



On the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. (Manchester), 

 extended a hearty welcome to the visiting Society. 



Dr. Hoyle intimated that the Manchester Society hoped shortly to issue a List 

 of the Lepidoptera of the District. Letters having been read from Mr. S. J. 

 Capper, F.E.S. , President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, 

 and Major Ronald Ross, C.B., F.R.S., the Chairman called on Mr. F. N. Pierce, 

 F.E.S. (Liverpool), who communicated an excellent paper on " The Structure of the 

 Lepidoptera" which was illustrated by the author's preparations thrown on the 

 screen by a new micro-lantern, shown by Mr. Greenwood. The lecturer dealt with 

 his subject in an interesting and instructive manner, and by the aid of a long series 

 of beautiful slides showed the undoubted relationship existing between certain 

 species and groups of moths as exhibited by the genitalia. The following auiongst 

 other exhibits were shown : Nonagria geminipuncta from the Isle of Wight, by 

 Mr. R. Tait, jun. (Ashton-on-Mersey), who mentioned the fact of its attacking the 

 reeds where they are more scattered, as in the bordering hedge-rows rather than 

 where they grow more closely in the centre of the marshes. He also showed two 

 very fine dark forms of Boarmia ahietaria. Mr. B. H. Crabtree (Manchester) exhi- 

 bited Melitaea aurinia from various English and Irish localities ; the latter possessing 

 clearer and more defined markings than the English specimens, which have a 

 browner tinge. Mr. J. Collins (Warrington) showed a valuable representative 

 collection of Crambidas. Mr. L. Krah (Manchester), fine specimens of Caligula 

 iaponica, and Rhodia fugax bred in England from Japanese ova, in exhibiting 

 which he gave some interesting details regarding their food plants, and stated that 

 the cocoon of the former, consisting of a fine network, was usually attached either to 

 a piece of stick or to folded leaves. Mr. J. Kidson Taylor's (Buxton), British 

 Coleoptera, containing amongst many other rarities, 3feloe brevicollis (Millersdale) ; 

 Cryptocephalus coryli (Sherwood), and C. sexpunctatus (St. Osyth)j Heptaulacus 



