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with their inquilines are now well represented in the records. Two sawflies 

 from the Kei<,diley district are additions, both Yunng well distributed, while 

 several interestinjjf species have been found in new localities. In the November 

 numbei of "The Naturalist," Mr: Percy H. Grimshaw, F.L.S., j^ives a detailed 

 account of a new Yorkshire g-all-midLfe, Oiigotrophus vetdricolus Riibs., bi-ed 

 from gall-like swellings found at the bases of leaves of purple heath grass 

 {Molinia caendea) obtained on Slaithwaite Moors, near Huddersfield, by the 

 Eev. T. A. Jefferies. Examples of the growth were kept under observation at 

 the Biological Laboratory at Huddersfield, and by Mr. E. G. Bayford. The 

 species was added to the Britisli list of Diptera two y(?ars ago. Mr. Grimshaw 

 also records another new Dipteron, Acletoxenus formosvs Loew, from Bnrley-in- 

 Wharfedale. Chrysotoxum arctiatum L., and Empis tessellata Fal)., have occurred 

 at Keighley. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt's report on the Neuroptera included two new records for 

 the county, Taenioptenjx tri/asciata, taken commonly on the Kiver Nidd at 

 Kuaresborougli at Easter, and Nemoura inconspicua commonly, at Filey at 

 Whitsuntide, both by himself. 



The exhibits wex'e numerous and interesting, and included in Coleoptera 

 Notlophilus bigidtatus F., alpine form, non-metallic, by Mr. W. Falconer ; 

 Anchwnenus versutus Gyll., Ryhill reservoir, Lesteva ? sp., by Mr. J. W. Carter, 

 F.E.S. ; and from the Uoncaster district, Acupalpus exiguus Dej., A^iacaeiia 

 bipustulata Steph., Homalota ciispidata Er., Philonthus splendidulus Grav., Ha^- 

 loderus caelatus Grav., Bagous limosus Gyll., Hylastes pjalliatus Gyll., 

 Trypodendron dornesticum L., T. quercus Eichh., and (?) Xyleborus dryographus 

 Eatz., by Dr. H. H. Corbett, M.E.C.S. J'rom the Cleveland district: Haliplus 

 striatus Sharp, Cercyon nigriceps Marsh., Ocyusa incrassata Muls., Homalota 

 eremUa Rye, Gyrophaena laevipennis Kraatz, Myllaena elongata Matth., Hetero- 

 thops dissimilis (jtrav., Quedius aui'icomas Kies., Lesteva punctata Er., Homalhim 

 iopterum Steph., Choleva morio F., Neuraphes elongatidus Miill., Scydmaenus 

 scutellaris Miill., Bythinus puncticollis Denny, Ptenidium intermedium Wank., 

 Epuraea Jiorea Er., Meligethes ovatus Sturm, Chalcoides helxines 'L.,v. fulvicornis 

 F., RhynchUes cupreus L., Anthonomus conspersus Desbr., by Mr. M. L. Thompson, 

 F.E.S. MoHochamus sartor L. : g, taken alive in a slied at Keighley Railway 

 Station, by Mr. Eosse Bvitterfield ; V , dug from a stump in a garden at Middles- 

 town, near Wakefield ; $ , ex. Coll. the late W. 'I'albot of Wakefield, without 

 locality, but probably local ; 9 . taken alive at Carltcm Main Colliery, near 

 Barnsley, by Mr. E. G. Bayford, F.E.S. 



Those in Lepidoptera included a series of remarkable varieties of Spilosoma 

 luhricipeda, bred from a Scarborough female ; buff males of Spilosoma meiidica, 

 very similar to the Irish (Cork) foim, from Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, with a 

 series of dark males of the same species, but with each fore-wing having a dis- 

 tinct white spot in the centre, from Kent ; and a Yorkshire olive-banded 

 Bombyx quercus, by Mr. B. Morley. Mr. Porritt, extreme forms of vars. nigro- 

 sparsata and nigrocostata of Abraxas grossulariata, bred from wild Hudderefield 

 larvae this season. Mr. J. H. Stanger, a gynandromorphous Ocneria dispar. 

 Mr. J. Hooper, varieties of Boarmia repanduta, Polin chi, Hyhernia learophaearia 



