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YORKHIRE NATURALISTS AT HUDDERSFIELD. 
THE two hundred and thirty-third meeting of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists” Union was held at Huddersfield, for Harden Moss, 
Honley Moor, and the surrounding district, on September goth, 
It was a typical Millstone Grit country, with its cloughs and 
moors, and bogs and scars. There were representative leaders 
in all branches, except mollusca, the reason being that for 
some inexplicable cause, the conchologists had arranged an 
excursion of their own on the same date. 
At the close of the excursion, tea was taken at the Wood 
Cottage Hotel, Harden Moss, after which was a general meeting 
for comparing results of the day’s work. This was presided 
over by Mr. G. T. Porritt. Votes of thanks were passed to the 
landowners and leaders, and particularly to Mr. W. E. L. 
Wattam for making the local arrangements. 
Reports were given by Messrs. Woodhead, Waterfall, Cheet- 
ham, Broadhead, Whitaker, C. Mosley, Morley, Porritt and 
Falconer, We have since received the following records of 
the day’s work :— 
VERTEBRATE SECTION.—Mr. W. Whitaker reports that the 
only mammals observed were the Field Vole, Common Shrew, 
and Rabbit. Twenty-five species of birds only were noted, 
and these were chiefly the commoner kinds, the most interesting 
being the Gold Crest, Grey Wagtail, Twite, Red Grouse and 
Magpie. Summer migrants were very little in evidence, the 
Swallow, House Martin and Willow Warbler being the only 
ones seen. 
The Trichoptera and Neuroptera taken in Harden Clough 
by Mr. G. T. Porritt, included a dark form of Stenophylax 
stellatus, Rhyacophila obliterata, Leuctra klapaleki, Hemerobius 
lutescens, H. orotypus, H. subnebulosus, and H. atrifrons, the 
last-mentioned being new to the Huddersfield district. 
COLEOPTERA.—Mr. Charles Mosley writes :—Beetles were 
very sparse, both in point of species as well as in individuals, 
with the single exception of Anchomenus angusticollis, which 
was abundant, there being frequently as many as a dozen 
or more under one stone. Other species found were Ptero- 
stichus madidus, Carabus violaceus, Loricera pilicornis, Notio- 
philus biguttatus, and Philonthus fimetarius. Several trees and 
stumps were found full of borings, possibly of a Rhagiwm, and 
some coleopterous grubs were seen in fungi and dung. 
Woop .ice.—Mr. Mosley worked the Clough assiduously 
for these creatures, but only succeeded in finding one species, 
Oniscus asellus, and that, too, sparingly. One of the specimens 
measured fifteen millimetres in length. 
ARACHNIDA.—Mr. Falconer writes :—When the investiga- 
tion of the arachnidal fauna of a district, as in the case of 
Huddersfield, is left to one individual whose efforts are neces- 
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