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represented b)' a broken fragment, and Helix cantiana and 

 Helix virgata, being- species which do not hide themselves in dry 

 weather, but remain on the vegetation exposed to the fiercest 

 solar heat ; only two species of freshwater shells were noted. 

 The remaining two excursions were affected to a certain extent 

 by the same climatic conditions as the last. Mr. Roebuck 

 reported at the Masham meeting that 21 species had been noted 

 during the day, made up of 5 slugs, 8 land snails, and 8 fresh- 

 water species. The most interesting feature was the great 

 abundance and large size of Lirnncea stagnalis and Planorbis 

 complanatus in Marfield Pond. At the Doncaster meeting* Mr. 

 Taylor reported the total for the day as 25 species alto- 

 gether, made up of 4 slugs, 10 land, and ir fresh water shells. 

 Perhaps the most notable finds were Planorbis carinaUis var. 

 disciforniis, and Valvata cristata at Cusworth, and Clausilia 

 hidentata var. everetti collected near Conisborough Castle by Mr. 

 Corbett. 



Entomological Section. — Mr. William Hewett and 

 Mr. John Waddington, the secretaries, write that good 

 work has been done, At several of the excursions' fresh 

 species were added to the county lists, the most pro- 

 ductive in that respect being' the Masham one on 

 i\.ugust 5th, when no less than five species of Trichoptera, 

 hitherto unrecorded for Yorkshire, were taken on the river 

 Yore. At Beedale, on June 22nd, Mr. Waddington made an 

 addition to our Odonata b)^ taking the fine and handsome 

 Cordulegaster annitlalus. Much interesting' work has been 

 done apart from the excursions ; the most notable, perhaps, 

 being the finding- of five full-fed larvae (and they, evidently only 

 the remnant of a number) of Sphinx convolvuli at Roystone, 

 near Barnsley, by Mr. A. Whitaker. The same lepidopterist, 

 and his friends too, found the usually scarce Cymatophora 

 fiuctuosa in considerable numbers, and very fine specimens, in a 

 wood near Barnsley. How the formerly very local Euperia 

 fulvago is rapidly extending its range was proved by Mr. B. 

 Morley taking twenty specimens in Deffer Wood, near 

 Huddersfield, and in the same wood two more XnntJiia aiirago 

 turned up. The Rev. C. D. Ash found the pretty little 

 Acidalia straniinata rather common near Selby ; and larvee of 

 Acherontia atropos have again been abundant in the Goole and 

 surrounding districts. One of the most noteworty captures 

 of the season was Arge galathea at Scarborough, and near 

 Helmsley, as recorded in ' The Naturalist ' by Mr. Barker and 

 the Rev. H. B. Drew. In other orders Mr. Porritt found 

 Tceniopteryx risi in abundance in Harden Clough, near 

 Huddersfield, where also Philopotaimis nionfaniis occurred in 

 plenty. 



