Plant Galls of the Huddersfield District. 167 



Rhodites rosae Linn. Ellen Springs, Lepton, Ainley Place, Rowley 

 Hill and Lepton Great Wood, Blue-tits were seen pulling the ' bedeguar ' 

 to pieces to get at the larvae inside them. 



Rhodites eglanteriae Htg. Lepton, Butternab Wood, Ainley Place, 

 where a somewhat rough-coated variety occurs, but not at all with the long 

 spines of R. rosarum Gir. Exariiples have been kept to see if the imago 

 will emerge. 



Xestophanes brevitarsis Thoms. Lepton, ' British Galls,' p. 23, S.L.M. 

 Dr. Harrison appears to have overlooked this record and another in the 

 same place (Redcar), in stating that this gall had not previously been 

 recorded for the north of England {Entomologist. Nov. 1916, p. 242). 



Aulacidea pilosellae Kief. One example in a field at Wilberlee, Slaith- 

 waite, July, 1917 : — lately recorded from near Leeds {The Naturalist, 

 November, 191 7). 



DIPTERA. 



Perrisia filicina Kief. Near Huddersfield, S.L.M. Ellen Springs, 

 Sun Dean. 



Perrisia marginem-torquens Winn. Common in various places about 

 Slaithwaite and Linthwaite. 



Rhabdophaga rosaria H. Low. Armitage Bridge, Dogley Mill Dam. 



Massalongia rubra Kief. Sun Dean. 



Oligotrophies betulae Winn. Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. 



Microdiplosis volvens Kief. Thurstonland and Ellen Springs, S.L.M. ; 

 Brockholes, Butternab Wood. 



Perrisia crataegi Winn. Wherever there are hawthorns — abundant. 



Perrisia urticae Perr. Brockholes, Sun Dean, Almondbury, Lepton. 



Perrisia persicariae Linn. Near Huddersfield, S.L.M. — Gawthorpe 

 Mill goit. 



Perrisia ulmariae Bremi. Ellen Springs, Sun Dean, Lepton. 



Perrisia rosarum Hardy. Huddersfield, S.L.M., Armitage Bridge, 

 Lepton, Ainley Place. 



Perrisia anglica Kief. Syke's plantation near top of Wholestone 

 Moor, Outlane, S.L.M. 



Stictodiplosis corylina F. Low. Lepton Great Wood. 



Contarinia tiliarum Kief. Lockwood, S.L.M., Slaithwaite. 



Perrisia epilobii F. Low. Beaumont Park, Huddersfield, S.L.M. 



Perrisia fraxini Kief. Ellen Springs, Armitage Bridge, Sun Dean, 

 Butternab Wood, Ainley Place. 



Perrisia trachelii (?) Wachtl. A pale loose, bud-like gall near base of 

 stem, in a field at Wilberlee, Slaithwaite. 



Rhopalomyia millefolii H. Low. Lepton, S.L.M., fields at Wilberlee, 

 common. 



Rhopalomyia ptarmicae Vallot. Near Huddersfield, S.L.M. 

 Urophora solstitialis Linn. Near Huddersfield, S.L.M. — Kirkheaton. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Argyresthia goedartella Linn. On alder catkins near canal, Slaithwaite. 



HOMOPTERA. 



Pemphigus bursarius Linn. Armitage Bridge, Ponty Gardens, Hall 

 Ings, S.L.M., Brockholes. 



P. affinis Kalt. Beaumont Park, Ponty Gardens, S.L.M. 



Aphis atriplicis K. On Atriplex patula L., Lepton. 



Rhopalosiphum ribis Linn. On black currant, Lepton. 



Aphis pyri Fonsc. On crab apple, Lepton, near the Church. 



Psylla crataegi Schrk. Beaumont Park, Huddersfield, S.L.M. 



Psyllopsis fraxini Linn. Armitage Bridge, Sun Dean, Ainley Place, 

 abundant. 



1918 May 1. 



