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Halliday, E Halifax. 



Harrison, J Barnsley. 



Hewett, W York. 



Lofthouse, T. A Middlesbrough. 



Lowther, J Beverley. 



Lownsborough, T. W Scarborough. 



Mosley, S. L Huddersfield. 



Porritt, G. T., F.L.S., F.E.S. ... Huddersfield. 



Sumner, J Everingham. 



Tordoff, J Bradford. 



Walker, S York. 



Waite, A Ripon. 



Warwick, J. W Harrogate. 



Young, C Rotherham. 



Mr. W. Brooks, Grange Hall, Rotherham, says : — ' Season 

 a very bad one.' 



Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S, F.E.S., Crosland Hall, Hudders- 

 field : — ' Season very bad. Sugar an almost absolute failure 

 until the autumn, and then not nearly so good as usual.' 



Mr. L. S. Brady, of Sheffield : — ' I have not sugared in 

 Sheffield more than half-a-dozen times this year, and when I 

 did I got nothing.' 



Dr. Corbett, M.R.C.S., of Doncaster: — * In the early spring 

 searching for imagines on the tree trunks gave very poor results. 

 Sallows were of no use, but I heard of great numbers of Tseno- 

 campidai being taken at sugar. Later in the season the spring 

 larvse were very abundant, many trees being stripped of their 

 leaves ; most of these larvae were the ordinary pests. During 

 the summer imagines were generally scarce. Sugaring through- 

 out the year, with the exception of the early spring, has been 

 very bad. The first evening that I tried the seductive sweets 

 was June 17th, and I took twenty-seven species of Noctuae. 

 During the autumn but few moths came to the trees, and many 

 usually common species were either altogether absent or only 



