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concolor, etc. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a case of twenty-three pairs of the S. American 

 genera Melinxa and Heliconius, found flying together and assimilating to each 

 other in colour. Commander Gwatkin-Williams, aberrations of British Lepido- 

 ptera from Ireland, including Epinephele jurtina, ? ° with banded hind wings, 

 several Cidaria which possibly may be C. concinnata ; Xanthorhoe montanata 

 with band obsolete, confluent Anthrocera trifolii, Euchloe cardamines, ? ? , with 

 ochreous hind wings, etc. Mr. Chas. Oldham, two series of small chalk stones 

 that he had collected within a small radius of the openings of two wasps' nests, 

 and which the wasps had been unable to carry to a greater distance. Mr. A. W. 

 Buckstone, for Mr. Archer, a bleached form of Angerona prunaria, 3 , from 

 Oxshott ; an almost black Lithosia helvola (deplana) from Wimbledon ; and an 

 Acidalia which was supposed to be a very aberrant form of A. subsericeata. 

 Mr. H. Worsley-Wood, numerous forms of Mellinia ocellaris, including ab. 

 lineago, ab. intermedia, with M. gilvago for comparison ; yellow Brephos par- 

 thenias from Wimbledon, and lead-coloured males of Agriades thetis from Corfe. 

 Rev. J. Tarbat, black suffused forms of Brenthis euphrosyne, ab. nigro-sparsata 

 of Abraxas grossulariata, and a Cidaria truncata with a broad-banded fore- 

 wing. Mr. Haynes, a series of hybrid Selenia tetralunaria, J , and 8. bilunaria, 

 $ , with a large preponderance of gynandromorphous specimens ; melanic and 

 ochreous varieties of Ennomos quercinaria, etc. Mr. H. J. Turner, a series of 

 Erebia stygne, to show the extreme local variation in the Alps and Pyrenees. 

 Messrs. Sharp and C. W. Colthrup, many Colias edusa from the South-eastern 

 district, representative of the species in 1913. Several interesting discussions 

 took place. — H. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union: Entomological Section. -The two 

 Annual Meetings of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union were held at the Leeds Institute, on October 25th last, Mr. W. Falconer, 

 President of the Section, occupying the Chair. 



Reports on the work done in the various orders of Insects were read by the 

 Secretaries of the different Committees. That on Coleoptera was given by 

 Mr. E. G. Bayford, who stated that, despite the scarcity of beetles generally, 

 due to the long spell of heat and drought, nineteen species had been added to 

 the county list, whilst forty-eight species already in the list had been recorded 

 from one or other of the Ridings for the first time. Mr. Arthur Whitaker read 

 the report on Lepidoptera, stating that all the Members who had sent in notes 

 remarked on the great scarcity of moths during the year, attributable, probably, 

 to the wet, cold summer of the previous year. An exception to the general 

 scarcity, however, was the unusual abundance of Pyrameis atalanta ; whilst 

 Aplecta occulta had evidently made one of its periodical invasions of the inland 

 districts of the county. Orthosia suspecta had also occurred in its periodical 

 abundance ; and Colias edusa had occurred in several localities, including 

 Bridlington and Hull. Consequent, probably, on the dry and prolonged summer, 

 Abraxas grossidaria,ta had produced second broods of full-fed larva; in the 

 gardens at Barnsley, Huddersfield, &c. 



