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the Driffield Museum, which contained a finer collection of York- 

 shire pre-historic remains than all these museums put together, 

 might easily have been lost to the county, if not to the country, 

 were it not for the generosity of Colonel G. H. Clarke, who 

 purchased it and presented it to the people of Hull. Even 

 the Hull Museum itself (that is the first one we had) was at 

 one time in private hands, but through the admirable arrange- 

 ment made between the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 and the Corporation, is now public property. When that 

 grand day arrives that each of our Yorkshire museums becomes 

 public property and its permanency is assured, doubtless 

 some such exchange as Mr. Machin suggests can be made. 

 I know of many specimens in most of the museums mentioned 

 which, in my opinion, should be in Hull.' 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE EMTOMOLOGISTS. 



At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire En- 

 tomological Society, a discussion and exhibition of ' Backyard 

 Insects,' to which most of the members contributed, was the 

 leading feature of the meeting. Mr. West contributed the 

 following Diptera from St. Helens, viz. : — Chrysis ignata, 

 C. rubii, Thereva nobilata, the silver-tail fly ; Leptis scolopacea, 

 L. lineola, Sarcophaga carnaria, and several species of Doli- 

 chopodidse. Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited Blastotere glabratella 

 Zell., an argyresthid moth belonging to the illuminatella group, 

 captured near Repton, Derbyshire, by Mr. C. H. Hayward. 

 The species was introduced to the British list by Lord Wal- 

 singham in 1906 from specimens taken in Norfolk, and it has 

 since been captured near Kings Lynn by Mr. Atmore ; the 

 Derbyshire record therefore seems to indicate that it is spreading 

 in Britain. Mr. Pierce also exhibited a series of drawings of 

 the male genitalia of the Palaearctic Psychidae executed by the 

 Rev. C. R. N. Burrows from his own recent preparations. 

 Mr. W. Mansbridge showed a series of Scoparia ambigualis 

 and its melanic variations from the West Riding and East 

 Lancashire. Mr. Mansbridge also read a paper describing the 

 work and methods of the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna 

 Committee. Mr. F. N. Pierce showed series of Catoptria 

 czmulana, C. tripoliana, and from the late S. Stevens' collection, 

 a series of reputed C. decolorana ; also a supposed specimen of 

 Eupcecilia manniana which, from an examination of the geni- 

 talia, he had found to be a dwarfed Argyrolepia cnicana. Mr. 

 S. P. Doudney had a long series of Porthesia similis from wild 

 larvae taken on the same hedgerow at Huyton, near Liverpool, 

 in which many of the females had the tail-tufts brown instead 

 of yellow, except for a slight admixture of yellow hairs ; all 

 the males were normal. 



1917 June 1. 



