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Attention must be especially drawn to the serious losses 
suffered by farmers through the attacks of Plutella macultpennts 
on the turnip crops. Many acres have been practically ruined by 
this pest. After the young plants were singled they began to 
assume a grey appearance in the foliage, and the roots developed 
“finger and toe.”’ Swallows were noticed paying much attention 
to the little moths as they fluttered about late in the afternoons. 
Melanism has not been a pronounced feature of the season. 
Dry years seem to arrest its progress. 
A. grossulariata var. varleyata has again occurred in the 
Barnsley neighbourhood. 
COLEOPTERA COMMITTEE.—Dr. W. J. Fordham writes :—Two 
of the members have been unable as yet to furnish lists of their 
captures owing to their specimens still being in the hands of 
specialists. The greater part of the collecting was done in 
the spring, when beetles were fairly abundant. Nine species 
have been added to the Yorkshire List during the year, viz.— 
Acupalpus exiguus Dj. (type), Anacena bipustulata Steph., Ocyusa 
incrassata Muls., Philonthus splendidulus Gyr., Cryptophagus 
pallidus, Stm., Bagous limosus Gyll., Sitones waterhoust Walt., 
Trypodendron quercus Eich. and Xyleborus dryographus Ratz. 
In addition to the above there are eleven species to add which 
were taken in previous years, but not recorded, some of them 
having only recently been determined. They are Laemostenus 
complanatus Dj., Cercyon depressus Steph., Tachyusa umbratica 
Er., Homalota triangulum Kr., Haploderus coelatus Gr., Silpha 
stnuata F., Cryptophagus saginatus L., Catops sericatus Chand, 
Aphodius granartus L., Cyphon nitidulus Th. and Galerucella 
pusilla Weise. 
Mr. E. G. Bayford has published an interesting note on a 
specimen of Monochammus savior ., from West Yorkshire. 
A full list will appear later. 
HYMENOPTERA, DIPTERA AND HEMIPTERA COMMITTEE.—Mr. 
Rosse Butterfield writes :—An important lst of Ichneumonide 
from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire by Professor J. W. Carr, of 
Nottingham, appeared in the March number of The Naturalist. 
Among the 24 Yorkshire species there enumerated several are 
additions to the County list. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck states 
that the Ichneumonid Phycadeuon rusticell@e has occurred in 
numbers in his room 259 Hyde Park Road, Leeds, during May 
and June, parasitic on the Moth Tinea biselliella. It is new to 
our Yorkshire List. Interesting observations on the occurrence 
or habits of bees and wasps have been made by Mr. H. Walsh at 
Halifax, and Mr. J. F. Musham, at Selby. 
Andrena labialis Kirb. and A. thoracica Fab., were captured 
at Keighley by the writer. These have not hitherto been 
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