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The following papers, which are of interest to Yorkshire 

 naturalists, were read in their respective sections: — 



J. G. Baker. — The Occurrence of Arenaria norvegica in Yorkshire. 



R. Tiddeman.- — On Concurrent Faulting and Deposit (Craven, 

 Yorkshire), with a note on Carboniferous Reefs. 



G. W. Lamplugh. — Report on an Ancient Sea Beach near 

 Bridlington. 



Dr. H. W. Crosskey. — Report on Erratic Blocks (this Report 

 contained particulars of about fifty erratics supplied by the Yorkshire 

 Boulder Committee). 



G. W. Lamplugh. — Note on a new locality for the Arctic Shell- 

 beds of the Basement Boulder Clay on the Yorkshire Coast. 



Many of the subjects touched upon in the above report are 

 beyond the scope of our Union, but there are others in which we 

 are well qualified to render assistance. We have already four 

 Committees working in harmony with the British Association, and 

 the writer hopes that the Council will, at the annual meeting at Hull, 

 recommend the formation of three more Yorkshire Committees : — 



i. To collect information as to the Disappearance of Native 

 Plants from their Local Habitats. 



2. To investigate the Invertebrate Fauna and Cryptogamic 

 Flora of the Fresh Waters. 



3. To make a Photographic Geological Survey of the County. 



September 26th, 1889. ' 



NOTES— LEPIDOPTERA. 



Colias edusa near Scarborough. — I have to record the capture of a very 

 good specimen of the Clouded Yellow Butterfly, on 15th Sept., in Mr. W. 

 Rowntree's garden at Westwood, Scarborough. — A. H. Burtt, 47, Newborough, 

 Scarborough, Oct. 24th, 1889. 



Colias edusa near Lincoln. — Seeing notices in your pages of Colias edusa 

 having been caught in Yorkshire, I may mention that on the 29th of August 

 I caught one near Lincoln, a male. It was a small but good specimen. On the 

 following day I saw another, not a quarter of a mile away from where the first was 

 caught, but was not fortunate enough to catch it. Since then, although I visited 

 the spot once or twice, I have not seen another one. — W. Hawker Smith, 

 95, Adelaide Road, South Hampstead, N.W., October 2nd, 1889. 



Variation in Arctia mendica at Huddersfield. — At the meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of London, held July 3rd, 1889, Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited 

 a remarkable series oi Arctia mendica L., bred from a small batch of eggs found 

 on the same ground at Grimescar, Huddersfield, as the batch from which the 

 series he had previously exhibited before the Society was bred. This year he had 

 bred forty-five specimens, none of which were of the ordinary form of the species : 

 as in the former case, the eggs were found perfectly wild, and the result this year 

 was even more surprising than before. — W. W. Fowler, Hon. Sec. 



Acherontia atropos in Notts.— The larvae of this species are unusually 

 abundant this year. A friend secured three examples, and while he was telling 

 me of this, one was brought to me. On placing it in a flower-pot of moist earth 

 it burrowed almost immediately, leaving a large hole to mark the place of its 

 retirement. A pupa obtained soon after I placed on the surface of the earth in 

 the same pot and lightly covered it, but it soon kicked the clothes off, and 

 persistently refuses to be covered, except to a small extent at the he ad end. — 

 W, A. Gain, Tuxford, September 24th, 18S9. Naturalist, 



