34 [February, 



YoRKSHiBE Natukalists' Union: Entomological Section. Annual 

 Meetings. — These were held, by kind permission of the York Philosophical 

 Societj', ill the library of the Museum at York, on Saturday, October 26th, 

 1918, under the presidency of Mr. G. T. Pobritt, F.L.S., F.E.S. The diffi- 

 culties of present-day travelling probably accounted for the small attendance, 

 though many leading Y'^orkshire entomologists were present. 



The afternoon meeting was held at 3.15 p.m., for the election of officers 

 for the ensuing year and for the exhibition of specimens. 



Before the ordinary business of the meeting, Mr. Porritt asked the members 

 present to pass a vote of condolence and sympathy with Dr. Corbett and his 

 family on the death of his only son, Capt. H. V. Corbett, an enthusiastic and 

 able naturalist, who was killed in action on October 17th. Tliis was silently 

 passed, the members standing in their places. 



The report, as read by Mr. B. Morley, one of the secretaries, showed that 

 notwithstanding difficulties ov>ing to ^^ln■ conditions much good work had been 

 done, especially iiniong the t'oleopteru and Hynitnojdera, of which particulars 

 of the more interesting species are given later in the list of exhibits. In the 

 " neglected " orders some 70 species had been added to the county lists. 



In Lepidoptera Mr. J. II. Hooper had taken a specimen of Argynnis paphia 

 in Dett'er AVood in the Huddersfield district, a species of great rarity in West 

 Y'^orkshire. Mr. liosse Buttertleld had captured Argynnis eitphrosy^ie, along 

 with Coremia vmnitata at B;irdeu-iii-Wharfedale ; Mr. W. Fabian reported 

 Sphinx ligustri from York, and from the same place Vanessa antiopa and 

 CJioerocampa elpenor a\ ere recorded by Mr. E. H. Tye. Mr. Arthur Smith 

 reported Sesiu eulicifonnis, Epione puralleluria (plentiful), and Cosmla paleacea 

 from Sandburn, York, and Dicranura bifida and Collix sparsata from Askham 

 Bogs. Plusiu muneta was recorded as having been common at York and Hull 

 by Mr. A\'. Hewett and Mr. J. Porter respectively ; also a single specimen of 

 the species at Huddersfield by Mr. Ellis, llumicia phlaeus had abounded in 

 many parts of the county, and in many unusual places. Mr. Porritt had 

 collected two large broods of larvae of Cuctdlia verbasci at Huddersfield, a 

 species hitherto never noticed in the district. Mr. J, W. Carter had found 

 a brood of the same species in the public park at Bradford, where also it was a 

 great rarity. Sphinx convoh-uli had occurred at Skelmanthorpe to Mr. T. H. 

 Fisher. 



Among Microk'pidopfeia Mr. T. A. Lofthouse had taken Perunea mixtana 

 and Phuxopteryx unguicella on the Cleveland Hills ; Sciuphila simiana had 

 occurred freely in various woods in the Hudderstield district to Mr. Porritt and 

 Mr. Morley, and the hitter had also taken Ccrostunia sequella (in great abund- 

 ance on sycamore trunks), Sfi(jinonofa rvgiunu and Amphysa gerninganu at 

 Skelmanthorpe. Elachista kdmuiiella was common on Eston moors. In the 

 early summer larvae of the "winter moths" Phigalia pihsaria, Ilybernia 

 defoliaria, 21. aunmtiaria, and Cheimatobia brumcita had been exceptionally 

 abundant, the last mentioned having completely defoliated apple-trees in some 

 gardens, while those of Tortrix viridana had done the same with oaks in the 

 woods. 



