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The following twenty species had not previously been recorded in the County, 

 one of them, Gluetocnema conducta, Motsch., being an addition to the British 

 list. A pair of this were taken by Mr. E. C. Horrell while sweeping in Forge 

 Valley near Scarborough. Nine other species were added by the same worker 

 from the Scarborough district. These were Medon pocofer, Peyr., Oxytelus 

 insecatus, Gv., Atomaria hasalis, Er., Zeugophora subspinosa, F., Phyllotreta 

 crucifene, Goeze, P. vittula, Redt., Apion bohemani, Th., Phytobius canalicu- 

 latus, Fiihr., and Na^iophyes lythri, F. This last species had also been met with 

 in plenty at Hatfield by Dr. Corbett, whose other additions from the Doncaster 

 district were Helochares ptmctattis. Sharp, AnisosHcta 19-punctata, L., Silvanus 

 unidentatus, 01. From the Cleveland district Mr. M. L. Thompson, F.E.S., added 

 Philonthus nigrita, Nordm., and Longitarsus sutiiralis, Marsh. From the westerly 

 portion of the East Riding Dr. Fordham contributed the following species new 

 to the County : Cryptobhim glaberrimum, Herbst, and Erirhinus bimaculatus, F., 

 and from the same Riding Messrs. T. Staniforth, B.A., and G. B. Walsh, B.A., 

 made the interesting addition of Helops pallidus, Ciu't., which they had found 

 in plenty at Spurn. One specimen of Naiisibius dentatus, Marsh., had been 

 taken at Barnsley by Mr. E. G. Bayford. Reference was also made to the 

 capture of a single specimen of Caiyophilus obsolctus, Er., at Edlington by 

 Mr. W. E. Sharp. In addition to these a list of 34 species which had not pre- 

 viously been met with in the particvilar Riding in which they had been taken 

 this year was read. Carabus monilis, F., was reported to have been extra- 

 ordinarily abundant in the Bradford district, this phenomenon having been 

 observed but twice before during the last twenty years. All the species named 

 were on exhibit, as also a ntunber of others, incliiding Dytiscus circumcinctus, 

 Ahr., previously known only from Askham Bog, taken at Buswith by 

 Dr. Fordham. Aphodius luridus, an entirely black specimen met with in the 

 Doncaster district by Dr. Corbett, and an imperfect specimen of Blaps mortisaga, 

 found amongst Egyptian wheat in Barnsley and given to Mr. Bayford. The 

 report on Hymenoptera and Diptcra, read by Dr. W. D. Roebiick, F.L.S., 

 recorded as the sole note on the latter order the occurrence of Bombylius major 

 and Criorrhina floccosa at Keighley, observed by Mr. Eosse Butterfield, who for 

 the Hymenoptera had also sent in a list of l-i Ichneumonids, a few of Avhich are 

 new to the list, as is also Polyclistus mansuetor, Gr., taken in Leeds by 

 Mr. Walter Withell. The report expressed the general opinion that the season 

 had not been a favourable one except in April and May. An important feature 

 in the year's work had been the occurrence of Nemeritis canescens in a Barnsley 

 flour mill, where it had been taken by Mr. E. G. Bayford. The species had been 

 identified by Mr. Claude Morley, F.E.S., who stated that it had not previously 

 been recorded from the British Isles, its native origin being S. Euroi^e and Asia 

 Minor. Mr. B. Morley read the report on Lcpiidoptera,, the most interesting 

 items of which were the capture of five Acronycta alni near Wakefield ; Xanthia 

 aurago, not uncommonly among sycamore at Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield ; and 

 numerous fine varieties of Abraxas grossulariata at Huddersfield. The exhibits 

 included a display of varieties of Hybernia defoliaria and H. aurantiaria, which 

 by previous circular invitation had been made a special featvire of the exhibition. 

 The case of these two insects exhibited by Mr. B. Morley was exceptionally fine, 



