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ENTOMOLOQY. 



South West Yorkshire Entomologists. — At the in- 

 vitation of Mr. B. Morley, the members of the South West 

 Yorkshire Entomological Society held their Annual Meeting 

 at his house at Wind Mill, Skelmanthorpe, on January i6th, 

 when Mr. B. Morley was elected President, and Mr. J. Hooper 

 Secretary. The following exhibits were passed around. By 

 E. G. Bayford : Orthoptera — Periplaneta australasice F. from 

 Barnsley, Coleoptera — Anthrenus musceonim L. from Leeds ; 

 by T. H. Fisher : Coleoptera — Leistus fiilviharhis Dej., 

 Ocys harpaloides Serv., Ontliolestes murimts L., Staphyliniis 

 pubescens DeG., Corymhites pectinicornis L., C. cupreus F. and 

 var. ceruginosus F., Xylotenns domesticiis L. and Blaps mucro- 

 natus Latr. from the Skelmanthorpe district. Mr. Fisher 

 also showed a series each of Bombyx quercus var. calluncB, 

 from Penistone Moors, Pier is napi and fine Scopelosoma 

 satellitia from Skelmanthorpe district. By G. T. Porritt : 

 Specimens of the newly separated Pcsdisca sinuana ; Sciaphila 

 Penziana from Grassington, taken by W. G. Clutten, in 191 1, 

 the first recorded Yorkshire specimen ; an almost clear 

 white specimen of Spilosoma nienthastri, specimens of the 

 rayed variety walkeri, and the brown form from the north of 

 Scotland ; Scotch and English specimens of Melanippe 

 hastata, along with a fine suffused variety from near Hudders- 

 field. By Mr. H. D. Smart : \ long series of English and 

 Irish Pieris napi of both spring and summer broods showing 

 a wide range of variation. By J. Hooper : Argynnis paphia 

 var. valezina, and confluent Zygcena trifolii from the New 

 Forest, and Melanargia galatea from the Isle of Wight. By 

 E. Cocker, a brown suffused variety of Arctia caia from Hud- 

 dersfield district in 1920. The evening was spent looking at 

 the collection of lepidoptera made by the President. — B. 

 Morley. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomology. — A meeting of 

 the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society was held at 

 the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, recently, Mr. 

 S. P. Doudney in the chair. A paper was read by Mr. S. Gordon 

 Smith on ' A Year's collecting of Macro-Lepidoptera.' In 

 this he related his experiences in pursuit of Lepidoptera from 

 the autumn of 1919 until October of 1920. Delamere Forest 

 came in for much attention, and the author obtained some 

 lovely sets of variable insects ; he showed that Nyssia his- 

 pidaria, previously considered rare in the forest, was quite a 

 common moth, and had further established, by counting a 

 large number of moths on the trees, that Phigalia pedaria var. 

 monarcharia occurred in the proportion of about one to three 

 of the type in this locality. The author had installed a 



1920 Mar. 1 



