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British orchids in situ. — The President, slides of the liverwort showing 

 remarkable proliferous growth, of "fairy flies" and of the tracheaa of 

 a beetle. — Mr. Syms, slides of the ova of the more local species of 

 British butterflies. — Mr. Tonge, slides of the ova of a number of 

 British Geometers. — Mr. Staniland, slides of the galling of the wild 

 crab by the woolly aphis Eriosoma lanigera and of the Syrphid 

 (Syrphus vitapennis). — Mr. Withycombe, a curious fungus growth 

 from a dead ant, a nest of Osmia rufa in a door lock, the egg-mass 

 of Empusa pauperata, the life-history of a Gonioptcryx, etc. 



March 9th. — The President in the Chair. —Mr. G. C. Champion, 

 A.L.S., F.E.S., was elected an honorary member; Mr. L. C. Bushby, 

 of Bromley, and Mr. A. M. Massee, of Sevenoaks, were elected 

 members. — Captain J. Eamsbottom, F.L.S., gave a lecture on " Sym- 

 biosis of Fungi and Orchids," illustrated with lantern-slides and 

 diagrams. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



South-West Yorkshire Entomological Society. — January 

 23rd, 1922. — The annual meeting was held at Hudderstield at the 

 invitation of Mr. G. T. Porritt. — The President, Mr. B. Morley, was 

 in the Chair.— After election of officers for 1922 and new members, 

 Mr. Mosley, the Curator of the new Huddersfield Museum, made 

 an appeal for the co-operation of the Society in working out the 

 entomology of the district and supplying material for the museum 

 collections. — Exhibits : Mr. G. T. Porritt, a specimen of Ptychoptcra 

 minuta taken by himself at Hornsea, Yorks, June, 1908, probably the 

 earliest known example of this fly. — Mr. B. Morley, various Hepialids, 

 including the whitish Wicken form of H. lupulinus and H. liumuli, 

 var. thuleus; Larentia concinnata, Arran, and varied series of L. trun- 

 cata, including ab. rufesccns, from Skelmanthorpe ; Lygris populata, 

 ab. musauaria, from Penistone ; Acronycta vienyanthidis, ab. sufusa, 

 a second-brood specimen from Penistone ; aberrations of Agrotis 

 nigricans, Lygris testata and Ephyra pendularia. — Mr. Mosley, a 

 collection of Micro-lepidoptera taken at Diggle and presented to the 

 Museum by Mr. F. Buckley.— Mr. E. A. Smith, a long series showing 

 range of variation in Agrotis fimbria, Elland, 1921, one specimen 

 having the band of the hind wing traversed by white rays. — Mr. E. 

 Cocker, aberrations of Arctia caja, one with yellow and one with 

 heavily -suffused hind wings.— Mr. J. Hooper, series of hybernids, 

 including melanic H. leucophearia and H. aurantiaria, ab. fuscata. — 

 Mr. W. Buckley, Euchloe cardamines, <$ , with the patches of a faded 

 lemon colour, a faint sub-terminal grey streak and a grey streak 

 prolonging discal spot to costa.— Mr. W. Dyson, two aberrant 

 specimens of Pyrameis atalanta, portions of the bands in one being 

 of a bright orange colour.— Mr. T. Fisher, aberrations of Xanthia 

 lutea having the "pink bar" intensified and brown in colour; 

 aberrations of Abraxas grossulanata including ab. nigrosparsata.— 

 Dr. H. D. Smart, a series of Camptogramma bilineata, including 

 ab. atlantica and ab. isolata ; Ennomos quercinaria, banded and 

 melanic forms ; melanic forms of Hemerophila abruptaria, Tephrosia 

 consonaria and Acidalia virgularia.— -Mr. Porritt, as far as time 

 allowed, showed portions of his collection of British Lepidoptera, a 

 description of which is beyond the scope of these notes. — H. D. S. 



