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At the meetiiii;- held in the paddock behind the Unicorn Hotel, 

 on Monday evening-, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck presided. After 

 votes of thanks were passed to the landowners and to those 

 who had assisted in the excursion, various reports of the work 

 accomplished were g-iven by Messrs. Hawkesworth, Robertshaw, 

 T. A. Lofthouse, McLean, Gibbs, Slater, Farrah, and the chair- 

 man. Some of these follow as appendices. Mr. Hawkesworth 

 referred to the general g-eological structure of the district, and 

 enumerated the more important finds made on the excursion. 

 Mr. A. G. Robertshaw reported that the lepidopterists had not 

 had much success ; he personally had not seen a single butterfly, 

 and the moths noted were all common ones. The two species 

 not localised in the following- list were taken by Mr. Lofthouse 

 near Bowes : — 



Hepialus sylvanus L. Bowes. Campiogramma biliiieata L. 



Eiipethecia pulchellatus St. Deepdalc. 



Small larva in flowers of fox- Tanagra atrata L. Deepdale. 



g-love. Crambus tristellus. General. 



Melanip)-)c fluctuala L. Bowes. Phlyetaenia lutealis. 



For the Coleoptera, Mr. Robertshaw also reported that the 

 results of the excursion were meag-re, though no great effort at 

 collecting- had been made. Mr. Roebuck had found the Death 

 Watch (Aiwbiuiii pertiiiax L. ) in gfreat quantities in his bedroom. 

 The following- were noted : — 



Pterostichiis vulg-aris. Bowes Castle. Geotrupes slercovarius. Bowes. 

 Xecrophorus ruspater. Hylobius abietis. 



.Sleig-htholine Beck. 



On Monday evening', towards midnig-ht, a small but g-allant 

 band complied with a request made by Mr. Roebuck, and armed 

 with a lantern, sticks, and the key of the castle, visited the old 

 Norman keep behind the vicarag-e in search of slug's. For half 

 an hour or so it appeared as though the president's previous 

 visits had robbed the castle of all its molluscan treasures. An 

 exaniination of the walls, however, revealed specimens of 

 Liinax flavus var. nifescens and other species, referred to in 

 Mr. Roebuck's report. 



Altogether the Bowes excursion can be looked upon as niost 

 successful. The various branches of the Union's work were well 

 represented, and the results are particularly valuable from the 

 fact that so little had been previously accomplished in the 

 ini mediate neig'hbourhood. 



The two photographs accompanying- these notes were taken 

 bv Mr. J. W. Farrah, and to his father, Mr. John Farrah, we 

 are indebted for the blocks. T. S. 



1903 September i. 



