42 [February, 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : Entomological Section. — The 

 Annual Meetings of this Section were held at Leeds on October 29th, 1921. 

 In tlie absence through illness of the President, Dr. O. E. Croft, F.E.S. was 

 Chairman of the afternoon meeting. Mr. B. Morley and Mr. M L. Thompson, 

 F.E.S. paid a tribute to the work, and expressed the loss the Section had sus- 

 tained in the deaths during the year of Dr. II. H. Corbett, F.E.S., Mr. J. W. 

 Carter, F.E.S., and Mr. John Gardner, F.E.S. 



It was decided to raalce a special excursion for the investigation of 

 Askham Bogs during the following summer. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., was re-elected President, and Mr. B. Morley 

 Secretary of the Section, and the various committees were appointed. 



The reports of the various committees were presented, and the following 

 is a summary of their contents : — 



Coleoptera, — Dr. W. J. Fordham, F.E.S., said that twelve species had 

 been added to the county list as follows : Stenus carbo>Hirius and Oq/zisa 

 i?iaura hoth from flood-refuse at Bubwith by himself ; Erirhinus scirpi from 

 Hawksworth by Mr. H. H. Wallis ; Syncalypta setigera, Eyiicvms hisfrio, 

 Eston, Scalb}', Hull, and Bichmond, Trichoptcryx 7iio7itandoni,''U nrwood Dale, 

 Chaetocnema suhcoerttlea, Forge Valley, Scarborough, Bruchidms debilis, East 

 Ayton, Dorytomus melanophthabmts Ellerburn and Staiutondale, and Erythra- 

 2>wii hr achy pter ton ^ Scalby, all by Mr. G. B.Walsh ; Hepfaulacus villosiis, Iledcar, 

 and JIapcdaraea pyymaca, Kildale, by Mr. M. L. Thompson, F.E.S. Other 

 species noted were Carabus nitenr., which head occurred in several localities, 

 and various moorland forms, such as Pterostichus lepidus and Miscodern arctiat 

 in new localities; Pelohms tardus had again occurred in the Ilidl district, and 

 Dytiscus cireuvrflexus had extended its range. 



Lepidoj} f era.— Ml- . B. Morley said that the season had been almost a.s 

 bad as the previous one, notwithstanding the brilliant and prolonged hot 

 summer, and apparently tlie species which had beeu almost exterminated 

 during the cold season of 1920, had not yet been able to re-establish themselves 

 to an3ahing like normal numbers. On the other hand, several of tlie bettor 

 local species, such as Xanthia aurayo at Skelmantliorpe, and the nearly black 

 var. scopariae ol Ayrotis ayathina near Penistone, had been more abundant as 

 lai-vae than for some years. Species had appeared very early, beginning with 

 the winter moths. A large emergence of Phiycdia pedaria was worn out before 

 the end of January, and Hyhernia rupicajn-uria, H. leiicophearia, H. mar- 

 ginaria, and Anisopteryx aescularia were all on tlie wing during the same 

 month. Many of the later species also emerged correspojidingly earl}', so 

 much 80 that numbers of them produced second, and in some cases third, 

 broods. Among the few better things which had been talcen was a tine 

 Cidaria siiffuvmta, var. porrittii, at Clayton West, near Huddersfield, by 

 Mr. W. Buckley; Aplecta occulta at Slielley by Dr. H. Douglas Smart, 

 F.E.S. ; and Mr. Porritt had found larvae of Dianthoecia carpophuya com- 

 monly on Silene injlata, in it adding a species new to the Huddersfield area. 

 The Rev. C. D. Ash, Thera firmaia at Skipwith, and Nonayria arundinetn 

 with its var. dissoluta had been again conimou in the Wharfe Vallej'. Mr. T. 

 A. Lofthouse, F.E.S., Paedisca scniifuacdnu at Askham Bugs, Glyphyptcryx 



