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vulgaris, Arctoslaphylos nva-ursi, Pinguicula vulgaris, Scutellaria 

 ■minor, Listera cor data, and Malaxis paludosa. For the latter this is the 

 only habitat in West Yorkshire. Amongst ferns and their allies, may be 

 mentioned — Hymenophyllum tu?jbridgense, H. unilaterale, Cystopteris 



fragilis var. dentata, and Lycopodium selago. The most important 

 mosses are Sphagnuin siibsecundum, Andrceaa pet?-ophylla, Seligeria 

 recurvata, Brachiodus trichodes, Splachtium sphcericum, S. ajupullaceum;^ 

 Discelium nudum, Entosthodon ericetorum, Philonotis calcarea, Mnium 

 imdulatum (in fruit), Tetrodontiuui broiunianum, Atrichu/n crispu7n, 

 Diphyscium foliosiim, Buxbaumia aphylla (Ogden Clough), Fissidens 



fontanus, Fteryi^ophyllum lucens, Hyocomiuni flagellare, Hypnum 



falcatum, and H. strainineum (in fruit). 



Entomology. 



Mr. Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S., communicates the following: — 

 The Saddleworth district is a good one entomologically, but the 

 date of the excursion is unfortunate. The northern and local Gele- 

 chia politella occurs in profusion in the wood and on the grassy slope 

 of the adjoining moorland overhanging Greenfield railway station, 

 at the end of June and first fortnight in July, and may possibly be 

 just getting out at the date of the meeting. Phoxopteryx myrtillana 

 should be plentiful among Bilberry ; larvae of Larentia didymata and 

 Hypsipetes elutata are well worth collecting in large numbers for 

 breeding the fine dark moorland forms of these species which occur 

 there ; and if not too late this backward season plenty of those of 

 Cidaria populata may be secured, with perhaps those of Oporabia 

 filigrammaria and Lareiitia Ctesiata. Imagines of Bombyx quercus, 

 Acidalia fumata, Melanippe galiata, Acronycta menyanthidis, Hadena 

 adusta, H. glauca, Anarta myrtilli, Clepsis rusticana, Coleophora 

 vitisella, and many others ought to be taken. Cehcna haworthii 

 abounds in August and September all over the moors, but is not so, 

 easily found in its earlier stages in the roots of cotton-grass ; Penthina 

 sauciana is almost equally plentiful among bilberry in July, and its 

 larvae may yet probably be collected, along with those of Grapholita 

 geminana, Peronea caledoniana, and Exapate gelatella, which are all 

 very common. Among Trichoptera the northern Asynarchus ccenosa 

 is abundant at the beginning of September, and its larval cases ought 

 now to be readily found in the shallow pools on the moors. 



Conchology. 



Mr. Thomas Rogers (Manchester) fears that the district is very 

 poor from a conchological point of view. He has never searched the 

 district for shells, but during liis little excursions in that neighbour- 

 hood he does not remember seeing anything worth recording amongst 

 land sliells. There is a canal which jjrobably might yield some fresh- 

 water shells ; he has, however, never tried it himself 



In the canal at Mossley, Mr. Edward Collier has found Limtuea 

 peregra^ L. auricularia, Sphcuriuin cor/ieuin, and S. ovale. 



