YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT MALHAM. 177 
reported were Ci/aria immanata (common) and Sciaphila pascuana, 
and that the Neuroptera and Trichoptera included the following :— 
Leuctra fusciventris, Nemoura meyert (abundant), Stenophylax con- 
centricus, Halesus auricollis (common), and Agapetus fuscipes ; and in 
Coleoptera the Rev. E. P. Knubley took an example of JVecrophorus 
ruspator, a common ‘ Burying-beetle.’ In other orders no observa- 
tions seem to have been reported. except that Gammarus pulex 
occurred in Mr. Knubley’s gatherings of water at Malham Cove and 
Gordale Scar. 
In Micro-Zoology and Micro-Botany, the Rev. E. P. Knubley, 
M.A., collected a few gatherings, which were submitted to and 
reported on by Mr. J. M. Kirk, F.R.M.S., of Doncaster. All were 
at an altitude above sea-level of 700 feet. The first gathering, from 
clear water at Malham Bes at a temperature of 464°, contained— 
of Diatoms, Amphora 
aritaceum 
irk remarked that the list of diatoms 
in this gathering was tice and that Scie was another species 
about which he could not be certain. The second gathering, ed at 
Malham Cove,at the same auiDere s eebes crowds of Meridion 
circulare, also Pinnularia oblonga and WNitzschia sigmoidea, id 
a Rotifer, Furcularia reinharatit. The third gathering, from Gordale 
Scar, at a temperature o 57°, included—of Diatoms, /ragilaria 
capucina, Synedra radians, and Pecks obtusa. Mr. Kirk noted 
that there was an almost total absence of animal life, owing to the 
length of time which would elapse before the tubes could reach him 
for examination. 
For the Botanical Section, Mr. W. Norwood Cheesman, of Selby, 
reported that the more noteworthy plants seen were the following :— 
Thalictrum waaay Sedum Tel ree 
Acteea spic: Saxifraga tridactylites. 
Meconopis pone Chrysosplenium Tesiotnn 
Viola lute Parnassia pa 
ca. 
Cuscuta europea. On nettles, 
road to Malh 
m 
Rosa tomentosa o Mainam. ‘ 
Poterium Pra Songs Lathraa squamaria. Near Janet's 
Rubus sa atilis, Cave 
= cndiies 
June 1g 
Salvia Veienntk. 
