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fimcorthuna from Piluioor, and G. equitella from the Yorkshire side of the Tees. 

 I'aken in 1919 by Mr. T. II. Fisher, but only recently identified, were a speci- 

 men of Inc.urvaria tenuicurnis at Skehnanthorpe, and Chrysoclista himacuklla 

 near Penistone. 



Ki/meiioptera. -Mr. Rosse Butterfield. F.E.S. Mellinus arvensis from 

 Allerthorpe and Psithyrus distmcf.us, var. subrujlpes, from Ilkley by Dr. Ford- 

 ham were new to the county. Several species resting on slender authority 

 had been substantiated. Mr. A. E. Bradley had taken a few nearly black 

 Boiubus hortorum at Scarcroft near Leeds, and half-a-dozen males of Bombus 

 distinynendas in the same district. lie himself saw queens of Bombus jonellus 

 and B. hipponicus at flowers of bilberry at Embsay and near Harden. Ayenia 

 varicgata was found prej'ing on spiders on an old oak stump at Shipley Glen. 



NeKvoptera. — Mr. Porritt. Practically nothing new or of interest had 

 been done in this Order. He had found a considerable colony of Pyrrhosoma 

 nymphula on Harden Moss, and Chrysopa perla not uncommonly in Honley 

 Wood, both new to the Iluddersfield area, but abundant enough in the county 

 generally. 



Remrptera. — Dr. Fordliam noted that the first instalment of his " List of 

 Yorkshire Hemiptera-IIeteroptera " had appeared in the October number 

 of the " Naturalist," and the rest would follow in due course. 



Dipfera. — Mr. C. A, Cheetham, F.E.S., said that about three hundred 

 species had been added to the County list, some of them (see F. W. Edwards's 

 paper in Trans. Ent. Society of Loudon) being additions to the British list. 



Plant Galls. — Mr. W. Falconer, F.E.S., reported that considerable work 

 had been done by this Committee, and most of the species had already been 

 recorded in the " Naturalist." Among others, the dipterou Lipara lucenSf 

 which causes a cigar-shaped gall on Phraymites coimnmiis, was apparently 

 new to the north of England. Amongst the Midge Galls the following had 

 liot previously been recorded for the county : Peri&sia Jloriperda on bladder 

 campion, P. schlechtendali on tuberous bitter vetch, P. vaccinioriim on bilberry, 

 P. viryaureae on golden-rod, P. acercriapmis from maple, all in the Iludders- 

 field disti-ict ; P. malt on crab-apple at York and Scarborough, and Rhopu- 

 lomyia tanaceticola on tansy at Huddersfield and Skipwith Common. 



The Evening Meeting, presided over by Mr. B. Morley, was devoted to 

 the examination of the exhibits and discussion. Among the Exhibits, in 

 addition to many of those already mentioned in the reports, were the 

 following: — 



Coleoptera. — By Dr. Fordham, the melanic form of Stenus aryus from 

 flood-refuse at Bubwitb ; Haltica li-itteni abundant over a limited area, from 

 heather at Ravenscar ; Helophortis jjorcuhis from roots of Cakile at Sandsend ; 

 Ilydropoi-us borealis {davisi) from near Sandf end ; and an r undescribed Athda 

 from Bubwitb flood-refuse. Mr. M. L. Thompson, other species in addition to 

 his new records. The three boys, Caird, Ilincks, and Kitchen, again showed 

 various species from the Leeds district. These boys give promise of doing 

 good work among the Coleoptera in future years. 



Lepiduptera. — Mr. B. Morley, a series of second brood Acronycta menymz- 

 tbidis, including a tine melanic specimen from the South- West Riding Moors; 



