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laevi2)ennis Kr., Glaisdale, 1914 ; Heterothops dissimilis Gr., Sijurn, 1911, 

 Middles))rougli, 1914; Gal rius splendiduhis (iv., Doncaster, 1914; Haploderus 

 caelatus Gr., Thome, 1907, 1914, Biibwith, 1910 ; Phyllodrepa ioptera Steph., 

 Kildale, 1914 ; Catopb sericatus Chaiid., Escricb, 1911; Pseudopelta sinuata F., 

 Doncaster, 1904, Escrick, 1912 ; Cryptophagus jMllidus Sturm, Selby, 1914, 

 saginatus Sturm, Doncaster, 1907, Bubwith, 1912 ; Meligethes ovatus Stui-m, 

 Great Ayton, 1914 ; Aphodius graiiarius L., Escrick, 1910 ; Cyphon nitidulus 

 Thorns., Bubwith, 1912 ; Galerucella pusilla Duft., Bubwith, 1912 ; Sitones 

 waterhousei Walt., Doncaster, 1914: this confirms the previous dovibtt'ul and 

 ambiguous record ; Bagous limosus GylL, Thorne, 1914 ; Xyloterus quemis Eichh., 

 Doncaster, 1914 ; Xyleborus dryographus Ratz., Doncaster, 1914 ; besides a 

 number of new Riding records which had been made or identified during tlie 

 year. 



That on Lepidoptera was given by Mr. B. Morley. It stated that the 

 season had been a fairly good one, but that the Hybernidae had biit little 

 recovered from their almost complete extermination two years ago, owing to 

 the immense numbers of larvae then having eaten evei-ything green before 

 full growth, and then perished. Cloantha solidaginis had been exceedingly 

 abundant, as many as half a dozen being counted on a single flower head of 

 Juncus ; Sphinx convolvuli had occurred at Cumberworth on Augiist 29th; 

 Xanthia aurago still held its own at Skelmanthorpe ; and Dr. G. W. K. Crosland 

 had found Tinea fulvimitrella in Lepton Wood, new to the Huddersfield district. 

 Mr. Porritt liad found the melanic form of Venusia cambricaria abundant in its 

 locality near Sheffield, and had noted that Polia fiavocincta at Bridlington was 

 of the ordinary pale Southern form, in contrast to the South-West Riding form 

 which was always dark. Reference was also made to the abvmdance of Pyrameis 

 cardui, P. atalanta, and Plusia gamma, both on the coast and inland this year. 

 For the Cleveland district, Mr. T. A. Lofthouse reported for the years 1913 and 

 1914. Cemiostoma wailesella at Saltburn ; Micropteryx sangii at Kildale ; and 

 Cedestis gyssellinella at Great Ayton, were new to the Yorkshire list. His other 

 records inchided Tinea fxdvimitrella at Ingleby Greenhow, and Noi'thallerton ; 

 Argyresthia atmoriella at Redcar ; Dicrorampha herbosana at Redcar, Saltburn, 

 Sandsend, and Middlesbiough; Amphysa gerningana and Cemiostoma sparti- 

 foliella at Lealholm ; Cerostoma sequella at Kildale and Sleights ; Ephippiphora 

 similana at Eston ; Nemotois cupriacellus and Incurvaria oehlmanniana at Great 

 Ayton ; Brachmia mouffetella and Bucculatrix cristaiella at Kildale. 



The Report on Hymenoptera and Diptera was given by Mr. Rosse Butterfield 

 as follows : Mr. W. Denison Roebvick rej^orted that the Ichneumonid Phygadeuon 

 rusticellae Bridgm., had occurred in numbers in his bedroom at Leeds for some 

 weeks in May and June ; only one locality being mentioned for the species in 

 Claude Morley's " British Ichneumons," Vol. II. Tryphon trochanteratus Holmgr. 

 was taken by Mr. G. T. Porritt in his garden at Huddersfield. This, together 

 with tliree species captured in the neighbourliood of Keighley by Mr. Rosse 

 Butterfield, are new to the county records. The newly recorded bees Andrena la- 

 bialis Kirb., and A. thoracica Fab., were captured near Keighley in May. Nomada 

 lathhuriana Kirb., appears to have been parasitic on the latter. The A^idrenidae 



