108 Yorkshire Entomology in 1914. 
known, is new to the County lst. On the occasion of the 
Union’s excursion to Knaresborough. at Easter, he obtained 
Ophion obscurus Fab. Mr. Porritt observes with regard to 
Stenichneumon trilineatus Gmel., which he usually breeds in 
plenty, some years in abundance, from wild larve of Abraxas 
gvossulariata, was this year apparently quite absent. Out 
of considerably over 6,000 wild larve he did not this year 
breed a single ichneumon of any description. 
Not much work has been done in the Saw-flies. Mr. Porritt 
reports that the gooseberry sawfly, Pteronus ribesii has been 
very destructive in gardens in the Huddersfield district, quite 
defoliating many bushes. Two saw-flies from the Keighley 
neighbourhood are apparently additions, while severa! inter- 
esting species have been found in new localities. 
In the November number of The Naturalist, Mr. Percy H. 
Grimshaw gives a detailed acocount of a new Yorkshire 
gall-midge, Oligotrophus ventricolus Ribs. Mr. Grimshaw 
records another new dipteron, Acletoxenus formosus Leow., 
from Burley-in-Wharfedale. Empis tessellata Fab. @ has 
also occurred at Keighley. Mr. Porritt mentions that the 
dipterous parasite of A. grossulariata (Phryxus vulgaris), 
appeared in very small numbers this year. It is usually very 
abundant. 
No observations of any moment appear to have been 
made with regard to Himiptera and active wo-kers in this 
order are needed. The new species above-mentioned have been 
identified and confirmed by the Committee’s honorary referees, 
to whom grateful thanks are due. 
B. Mortey. 
7O>% 
The Proceedings of the Cheltenham Natural Science Society for the 
session 1914-3 (N.S. vol. 2, pt. 3, pp. 103-142, 1/-), are chiefly occupied 
by the address of the President (Dr. E. T. Wilson) on ‘ The Long- Barrow 
Men of the Cotswolds.’ It is reprinted from the ‘ now defunct ’ newspaper, 
The Examiner. 
From the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club we have 
received volume 15, part 4 of its Transactions, edited by Mr. John Hopkin- 
son (pages 193-272 and i.-lxvui.) The volume includes the following 
notes of distinctly local interest :—‘ Testacella scutulum in Hertfordshire,’ 
and ‘ The Palmated Newt in Hertfordshire,’ by G. Oldham ; ‘ The Climate 
of Hertfordshire,’ ‘The Weather of the year 1913 in Hertfordshire,’ and 
_ Observations in Hertfordshire,’ by J. Hopkinson; ‘ Birds observed in 
Hertfordshire,’ by William Bickerton; ‘ Botanical Observations in 
Hertfordshire,’ by E. J. Salisbury ; ‘ Acroloxus lacustris in Hertfordshire,’ 
by E. Popple ; ‘ Geological \\ ork in Hertfordshire,’ by H. Kidner. There 
is also an interesting classified subject-index to the principal contents of 
the Transactions for the 40 years, 1875-1914, under the following headings : 
‘Topography,’ ‘Geology,’ ‘ Hydro-Geology,’ ‘ Meteorology,’ ‘ Phenology,’ 
“ Biology,’ ‘Botany,’ ‘Zoology,’ ‘ Archaeology,’ ‘Physical Science,’ 
* Miscellaneous.’ 
Naturalist, 
