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 YORKSHIRE ENTOMOLOGY IN 1917. 



B. MORLEY. 



The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Section of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was held in the Institute, Leeds, 

 on October 27th, 1917, under the presidency of Mr. W. P. 

 Winter, B.Sc. 



Reports which the various committees had supplied for the 

 annual meeting of the Union were read and passed. Exhibits 

 were numerous. Capt. H. D. Smart showed a specimen of 

 Sphinx cassinea taken in Escrick Park, York, on October 

 26th, 1917. Two fine variations of Arctia caia and varieties 

 of extreme light and dark forms of Abraxas grossulariata 

 ab. nigro-spar^cia, by Mr. Alfred Kaye, Huddersfield, West 

 Riding ; Polia chi, Xanthia citrago, Tephrosia biundularia and 

 Spilosoma fuliginosa, by Mr. J. Hooper, Middlestown ; Stig- 

 monota nitidana and Choreutes scintillulana from Doncaster, 

 and specimens of Papilio machaon, Colias hyale and C. edusa 

 var. helice from the Somme front, by Dr. H. H. Corbett. A 

 large case of New Zealand lepidoptera, including many fine 

 species, by Mr. W. Hewett. Mr. B. Morley showed series of 

 Pcsdisca solandriana, Tortrix corylana and Scoparia ambigualis, 

 each showing extensive colour variation, and a specimen of 

 Eriopsela fradijasciana, the last being new to Yorkshire. 



CoLEOPTERA. — Dr. W. J. Fordham included in his exhibits 

 a black form of PterosticJms versicolor and several species new 

 to V.C's. 61 and 64. Atheta britteni and Gabrius stipes new to 

 the county, and a series of colour varieties of Donacia sericea. 



Mr. M. L. Thompson showed, amongst other species, 

 Amara rufocincta, Bembidium lunatum, Cymindis raporariorum, 

 Bolitochara luniilata, Bythinus burrelli and Rhinomacea 

 attelaboides from North Yorkshire, and also Atheta nitidula 

 from both Cleveland and Swaledale, new to the county, and an 

 imported species Speimophagus pictoralis from Middlesbrough. 



Mr. E. C. Horrell had a specimen of Lissodana ansor, a 

 rare British species, new to the county, taken by Mr. J. Digby 

 Firth. 



Dr. Corbett showed the following species of dragon-flies 

 from the Doncaster district : — Libellula quadrimacidata L., 

 L. fidva Miill., Sympetrum striolatum Charp., S. scoticum Don., 

 Brachytron pratense Miill., Aeschna juncea L., Ae. cyanea MiilL, 

 Ae. grandis L., Lestes sponsa Hans., Enallagma cyathigerum 

 Charp., Agrion puella L., Pyrrhosoma minium Harris, Ischnura 

 elegans Linden. 



Mr. Rosse Butterfield exhibited on behalf of Mr. Musham 

 a number of Aculeate Hymenoptera collected by him in his 

 garden at Selby during the summer. Among these were 

 Anthophora pilipes, Prosopis communis, Colletes daviesana. 



1918 Mar. 1 . 



