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Yorkshire Naturalists' Union: Entomolooicaf, Section. — The Annual 

 Meeting of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was 

 held at Doncaster, by invitation of Dr. Corbett, on November 4th, 1916. 

 Prof. Garstang, M.A., F.Z.S., of Leeds, the President of the Section, occupied 

 the chair at both the afternoon and evening meetings. 



The former was held in one of the rooms of the Doncaster Mvisoum, where 

 the collection of local insects made by Dr. Corbett was laid out for inspection. 

 The attendance, although not so large as in previous years, was very fair con- 

 sidering the crisis through which the country is passing. The Eeports of the 

 various Committees were read. These showed that good work had been done in 

 most orders, more particularly in Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Arach- 

 nida (which for convenience is attached to the section). A number of interest- 

 ing specimens were exhibited. A collection of Coleoptera made from 50 to 70 

 years ago by the late C. W. Simmons, of York, was shown by Mr. W. Hewett. 

 A fine $ specimen of Monochamus sutor L., taken in a woodyard in Huddersfield, 

 was exhibited by Mr. Cocker. Leptura sanguinolenta L., a $ taken at Barnsley 

 by Mr. E. G. Bayford. Dr. Fordham exhibited a number of interesting and 

 rare species, incKiding nine new to the county, viz. : Acupalpus consputus, Atheta 

 fungivora, A. gyllenhali, A. sodalis, Gyrophaena nana, Trichopteryx fratercuta, 

 Cryptophagus ruficornis, Cis setiger, Malthodes brevicollis. There were fewer 

 exhibits than usual of Lepidoptera. A collection of Pieridae made by Dr. Smart, 

 of Shelley, while serving in France, was shown by Mr. B. Morley, of Skelman- 

 thorpe, and a fine specimen of Arherontia atropos L,, which had been arrested by 

 a policeman and brought alive to Dr. Fordliam, was shown by that gentleman. 



The evening meeting was mainly devoted to the reading of two papers. 

 The first of these was by the Secretary, Mr. B. Morley, of Skelmanthorpe, on the 

 collection of Lepidoptera made by Dr. Smart, of Shelley, while serving with the 

 British Expeditionary Force in France, many species being taken in the 

 trenches. Surprise was expressed that Colias hyale should be much commoner 

 than C. edusa. Melanargia galatea, so plentifvil as to appear like falling leaves. 

 Pieris hrassicae, remarkable for its abnormally small males, and equally abnor- 

 mally large females. The moths were even more interesting than the butterflies. 

 The specimens of Fidonia atomaria were quite twice the size of those met with in 

 Yorkshire. One of the most interesting finds was a specimen of Boletobiafuli- 

 ginaria, which Dr. Smart took in his own dug-out. The other paper was by 

 Mr. E. G. Bayford, of Barnsley, dealing with Donisthorpe's " British Ants " and 

 Prof. Carr's volume on " The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire," and 

 showing how they should stimulate the study of the groups usually neglected, 

 and assist in determining their comparative distribution. Mr. Bayford sliowed 

 a specimen of Gerris najas De G., an insect which has occurred iii the utmost 

 profusion on the canal at Walton, near Wakefield, yet has not been found in 

 Nottinghamshire, nor does Saunders record it from any northern county. He 

 also exhibited a specimen of Nahis flavo-inarginatus Scholtz, taken by him in 

 ■ Derbyshire, ncaj- the border of Cheshire. Saunders had no records from either 



